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Canadian Clown in Space
http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/c...entid=22025989
Isn't this the reason people can no longer take "Space Exploration" seriously any more? Can the naysayers be gifted any better argument against spending resources on Human Spaceflight than having this street juggler cavorting about a 30+ billion dollar space outpost trying to legitimize his being there by spewing propaganda from the likes of Gore /U2 and pretending he is on some kind of global awareness-expanding educational crusade about drinking water quality? What hope is there for the human race if one of the more pressing life and death issues demanding attention has to be made part of some obscene side show in space to gain a place on the global "to-do" Agenda ? The whole thing trivializes the water quality problem surely as much as it does human spaceflight. Doesn't say much for the average intelligence of the "First World" dwellers that cannot be bothered to come up for air long enough for a few nano-seconds' worth consideration of a global concern unless they are somehow "entertained" while being so educated. At least this guy could just present himself as the thrill seeking mega-millionaire he really is, it wouldn't raise the queasiness levels in so many stomachs and he might actually turn out to be more honestly endearing to many more people. I grew up with Grissom, Gagarin, Lovell, Armstrong, and those others like them that were part of something real and (we all here believe) purposeful and important. Yet today, here is what our kids have to inspire them...a sham of a space program, unsupportable by any politician worried about his own re-election, let alone any nation, including one as great as the United States of America, now having spread itself so thinly with many pressing domestic and global obligations crying for its attention. This image is the perfect symbol of what a rudderless pursuit human spaceflight has become and why it will only go on losing credibility. And, I think America now has just the right demagogue in the White House fanning the Crisis-all-around-us, America-on-the-Decline Gloominess to deal the final blow to human spaceflight. With an bloated and unimaginative NASA tie-wrapped around the grand "Circus Masters of Space" themselves, the Russians, and a hostile administration fiscally garrotting taxpayers to pay for grandiose social engineering projects, who here really believes we are ever going back to the Moon or Mars with manned vehicles within our lifetimes? I hope I am wrong. |
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