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A Challenge to Get to Mars and Back
Townhall.com ^ | December 25 | Suzanne Fields

Posted on 12/25/2015 6:31:42 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: repentant_pundit
Why should American "young people" spend 4 years and $$$ jumping thru all the math hoops, just to see H1B Visa muzzies and other foreigners taking over all U.S. technology jobs for stagnant wages ?

Exactly right. You are one of the very few people that I've heard speak to this simple reality. Most of the time, we get hypocritical nonsense from the Chamber of Commerce/Business Roundtable crowd whose singular interest is to fill the nation's office cubicles with foreign-born workers willing to do "STEM" work for Third World wages.

Why shouldn't, then, the native-born "best and the brightest" just go to law school, or otherwise follow-the-money?

21 posted on 12/25/2015 7:04:54 AM PST by DSH
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To: cripplecreek

I’d rather Cruz and the Senate defund NASA and instead outsource space work to private companies who will get the job done without the bureaucratic BS and political agendas.


22 posted on 12/25/2015 7:05:59 AM PST by bigbob ("Victorious warriors win first and then go to war" Sun Tzu.)
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To: mylife
We (Red Blooded, Flag Saluting, Americans) are all “Mr.Scott,” Engineers at heart, ("Beam Me up").
23 posted on 12/25/2015 7:06:18 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Vermont Lt

And we could Bomb the jihadis from MARS! LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFTjVwJakSY


24 posted on 12/25/2015 7:06:31 AM PST by mylife
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To: bigbob

Its all taxpayer dollars.


25 posted on 12/25/2015 7:09:27 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Flag_This
Simple Definition of botany: a branch of science that deals with plant life

Full Definition of botany

plural bot·a·nies

1 : a branch of biology dealing with plant life

2 a : plant life
b : the properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group

3 a botanical treatise or study; especially : a particular system of botany


see the word does exist Source

26 posted on 12/25/2015 7:10:05 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: SandRat

Yessir


27 posted on 12/25/2015 7:11:59 AM PST by mylife
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To: Kaslin
Hey, Thanks!
28 posted on 12/25/2015 7:14:08 AM PST by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: Kaslin; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA

And back? We should leave some people there, I can think of many suited for such a fate. Perhaps L. Graham could serve as Ambassador to the Court of Ming the Merciless.


29 posted on 12/25/2015 7:15:06 AM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Kaslin
"see the word does exist Source"

So does the word "botanical," btw.

30 posted on 12/25/2015 7:15:13 AM PST by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: mylife

Absolutely. We just need to know where are going to be nine months from now.


31 posted on 12/25/2015 7:15:43 AM PST by Vermont Lt (I had student debt. It came from a bank. Not from the Govt.)
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To: Kaslin

“But can we answer such a call again?”

Not when we have muslime outreach as NASA’s primary mission.


32 posted on 12/25/2015 7:24:09 AM PST by Hulka
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To: mylife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjNjVx_uOz8

Favorite of mine. . .


33 posted on 12/25/2015 7:26:42 AM PST by Hulka
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To: Vermont Lt

There’s the trick bit LOL the rest is easy peasy lemon Squezzy

It s like in Murphys war when he was asked can you fly?

And he said of course I can fly

But can you get her down?

That I KNOW I can do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aED7xvYbMfw


34 posted on 12/25/2015 7:27:47 AM PST by mylife
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To: Hulka

Nice


35 posted on 12/25/2015 7:29:03 AM PST by mylife
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To: Caipirabob

http://www.universetoday.com/31470/8-ridiculous-things-bigger-than-nasas-budget/

NASA’s budget is so small it can’t even make a sliver on the federal government pie chart.


36 posted on 12/25/2015 7:29:41 AM PST by Hulka
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To: repentant_pundit

“We’ve been seeing this statement for 40 years. Fat lot of good it did.”

We need another “Sputnik” moment.

Worked then.


37 posted on 12/25/2015 7:31:05 AM PST by Hulka
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To: Flag_This

of course it does. *rme*


38 posted on 12/25/2015 7:33:27 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: repentant_pundit
"Studying math and science"

That's a shibboleth. The engineers who sent men to the moon went to school from the 1930s to the 1950s.

I'm sure they studied (duh!) - but they also had proper preparation in elementary school and high school, they had proper grading and a rigorous curriculum.

None of that exists any more. One of my children is currently a Biology major in college. This child has two "X" chromosomes, so that's very exciting to the powers that be.

The lack of preparation among her classmates is astonishing. The degraded nature of the curriculum is astonishing. Neither of these things can be corrected by "studying".

If we are going to send English speakers to Mars, we have to fix first grade, and we won't be going for fifty years (at least). When I was a little boy and a teenager, I believed we'd hear voices from Mars before I died.

And we will. Too bad I don't speak Mandarin.

39 posted on 12/25/2015 7:35:47 AM PST by Jim Noble (Diseases desperate grown Are by desperate appliance relieved Or not at al)
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy

Lindseed is an alien.


40 posted on 12/25/2015 7:45:37 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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