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UN****ING BELIEVABLE!
What planet to the neocons come from? Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/sc...itiKrXZazUNXdw http://cosmic.lifeform.org?p=7 |
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In article , Thomas Lee Elifritz
wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/sc...=7a71420a9103f ea3&hp=&ex=1153627200&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&ad xnnlx=1153543120-I5g0T4aFiti KrXZazUNXdw http://cosmic.lifeform.org?p=7 Spamming your idiotic blog *PLONK* -- Relf's Law? -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ "Bull**** repeated to the limit of infinity asymptotically approaches the odour of roses." Corollary -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ³It approaches the asymptote faster, the more pseduos¹ you throw in your formulas.² -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Roger Coppock wrote: UN****ING BELIEVABLE! What planet to the neocons come from? Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/sc...itiKrXZazUNXdw http://cosmic.lifeform.org?p=7 Uh, wrong Moderate, right? But the change comes as an unwelcome surprise to many NASA scien- tists, who say the "understand and protect" phrase was not merely window dressing but actively influenced the shaping and execution of research priorities. Without it, these scientists say, there will be far less incentive to pursue projects to improve under- standing of terrestrial problems like climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. What scientists? NASA = National AERONAUTICS Space Administration, or National Aeronautics and SPACE Administration. The two seem to be at odds with each other, don't they? Maybe this Agency needs to be renamed "National Environmental Space Agency" or "National Government Environmental Agency". Dear President Bush, Please stop the earth from precessing on its axis every axis every 26,000 years. Thank you, Moderate Republican |
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Well, you should have read the mission statement that was only barely
rejected: "You got money? We got rockets. Lets get together..." Or this one: "NASA - we used to have the Right Stuff, but now we just prostitute Our Stuff to wherever the money comes from." "Thomas Lee Elifritz" wrote in message ... http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/sc...itiKrXZazUNXdw http://cosmic.lifeform.org?p=7 |
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On a sunny day (Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:22:55 -0500) it happened Thomas Lee
Elifritz wrote in : It is simple, NASA does what GW Bush tells it to do. And GW Bush is destroying the world. Figures. |
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Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/sc...itiKrXZazUNXdw http://cosmic.lifeform.org?p=7 Well, it would have to happen, NASA is more valuable to Bush as a moron Air Force / Star Trek recruiting poster, rather than a science progran. |
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Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/sc...itiKrXZazUNXdw No, NASA did not "decline" to do anything. NASA did not "decide" to do anything, NASA does not "choose" to do anything. NASA is an arm of the executive branch of the federal govenment of the USA. No more or less so than, say, the army. The army doesn't "decide to invade Iraq" -- everybody would recognize this statement as ridiculous. And neither does NASA "decide to build a space station" or "fly shuttles" or any such thing. Why do people think that these are reasonable claims to make? NASA does whatever *congress* and *the White House* decide to do. If the White House decides tomorrow that NASA should build the next generation toilet brush, then that is what NASA is going to do. NASA has a certain limited amount of leeway HOW to do any one thing, just like the army has a certain amount of freedom in that regard. But that's about it. NASA does NOT choose it's mission statement. They are allowed to tinker with the precise formulation, but what exactly they're supposed to DO is something that aren't being asked. The previous administration thought NASA was a great thing to use to study, monitor, understand and protect our own planet. This administration thinks they'd rather not know about our own planet and rather go *other* planets instead. The next administration may well decide that NASA should be building only military crap, or do unmanned mining of asteroids, or build casinos in LEO -- and then that's what they're going to do. Or maybe they'll be split into several agencies. Or merged with some other one. Or whatever the folks in Washington come up with. These are *policy* decisions and NASA has no say in them. If the next administration decides to withdraw all troups from Iraq, then that's what they're going to do. And nobody is going to proclaim that "the army decided to withdraw from Iraq". But if the next administration decides that the whole rewarming-Apollo nonsense isn't really a good use of resources, there will *invariably* be some poster again telling us how "NASA abandons moon project" or similar stupidity. cordially Y.T. -- Remove YourClothes before you email me. |
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On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 11:22:55 -0500, Thomas Lee Elifritz
wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/sc...itiKrXZazUNXdw Well, NASA as presently constituted will be hard-pressed to proceed with Bush's Vision for Space Exploration and still maintain the current science programs -- even with their expanded budgets of the past two years. Mission to Planet Earth has produced a lot of valuable environmental data, much of which still has to be analyzed. Let's hope some other agency can pick up that task. But for NASA, it looks like the word is: Up with VSE, Out with MPE. |
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