"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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On 13 Nov 2007 22:55:00 +0200, in a place far, far away,
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:


NASA must cooperate with the Department of Defense in the United
States.
According to the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, Section
305à (i):
"The National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall be
considered
a Defense Agency of the United States for the purpose of Chapter 17,
Title 35 of the United States code"

Ken Johnston at:
http://www.enterprisemission.com/NPC-Russia.htm
I do not want any discussion about the slides there. I regard em as the
result of a bad adjusted copy device.

But this law statement surprised me. Is it still actual? If so NASA PAO
did a good job 40 years to present it as research agency.

There is no agency in the US that is allowed to not cooperate with the
Departement of Defense, if necessary. Your question is idiotic.


But the question is valid. It's becoming clearer every
day that the Vision was created to fill the needs of our
military in terms of the missile defense plans they have
for the future.

Is it any wonder NASA has floundered for reasons to
go back. They can't say the truth.

You know I'm right. Just when NASA is becoming free
to chart a new future for itself, along comes Lockheed
and the military and ...POOF...goes any chance
for a /meaningful/ future for NASA and space flight.

At least for the next forty or fifty years or so. History
is repeating itself, not Apollo, but another couple
of generations of a NASA goal that primarily serves
the military industrial complex.

That has to change and soon. Global warming and
fossil fuel issues can't wait that long. Can't wait
at all.

I'm betting a $100 a barrel by Christmas.

Wasn't is just eighty the other month? Does it
register to anyone that's almost a 25% increase
in a couple of months?

Now.....extrapolate that out forty years.

And extrapolate all the money of the west free-flowing
to the Middle East so fast the jihadists will
go nuts trying to figure out how to spend
it all.

I wonder how they'll spend it???



Jonathan


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