In sci.physics J. Clarke wrote:
Mike Jr wrote:
On Feb 3, 12:03 am, "J. Clarke" wrote:
Mike Jr wrote:
""To people who are working on these programs, this is like a death
in the family," an emotional NASA chief Charles Bolden told
reporters Tuesday, choking up at times. "Everybody needs to
understand that and we need to give them time to grieve and then we
need to give them time to recover.""

http://www.space.com/news/nasa-futur...on-100202.html

NASA is going to be getting the top recruits now, no doubt about
it.~

And once again the politicians show us that all the hue and cry
about how the US is falling behind in science is just posturing and
that they don't really give a damn.

If you want Americans to study science and engineering, the
high-glamor projects and the good jobs have to be out there, and the
sad fact is that most Americans who did study those fields cannot
find work in them.

There is certainly a lot of damage that the next administration is
going to have to fix.

It is interesting fact that gamers are driving the evolution and
advancement of graphics cards. Those very same cards are being used
to drive the desktops used to analyze photographic intelligence.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/systems/iec.htm

I think the lesson is that manned space exploration has to make
economic sense. It currently does not. NASA shouldn't be the primary
driver of manned space flight technology but rather the beneficiary of
technology being advanced by commercial concerns, even if that
commercial concern is something as mundane as space tourism.]

The trouble is that that puts the entire space program on the back burner
for most of this century or kills it outright, and the US loses another
industry that the US created.

I'm not convinced that something who's sole and total customer base is
the government meets the definition of an "industry".

I would be more worried about the fact that export restrictions have
resulted in a decline in US satellite commercial sales from about 90%
of the world market to about 50%.

And commercial satellites is a real, US, profit making industry.


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Jim Pennino

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