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Old July 22nd 06, 05:22 PM posted to sci.environment,sci.space.policy,alt.global-warming,sci.geo.geology,sci.physics
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/sc...itiKrXZazUNXdw

http://cosmic.lifeform.org?p=7
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Old July 22nd 06, 05:43 PM posted to sci.environment,sci.space.policy,alt.global-warming,sci.geo.geology,sci.physics
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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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Old July 22nd 06, 05:49 PM posted to sci.environment,sci.space.policy,alt.global-warming,sci.geo.geology,sci.physics
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Default NASA declines to protect the Planet Earth

In article , Thomas Lee Elifritz
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/sc...=7a71420a9103f
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Old July 22nd 06, 05:57 PM posted to sci.environment,sci.space.policy,alt.global-warming,sci.geo.geology,sci.physics
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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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Old July 22nd 06, 06:02 PM posted to sci.environment,sci.space.policy,alt.global-warming,sci.geo.geology,sci.physics
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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
...
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http://cosmic.lifeform.org?p=7



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Old July 22nd 06, 06:42 PM posted to sci.environment,sci.space.policy,alt.global-warming,sci.geo.geology,sci.physics
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Default NASA declines to protect the Planet Earth

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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Old July 22nd 06, 08:23 PM posted to sci.environment,sci.space.policy,alt.global-warming,sci.geo.geology,sci.physics
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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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Old July 22nd 06, 09:08 PM posted to sci.environment,sci.space.policy,alt.global-warming,sci.geo.geology,sci.physics
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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.

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Old July 23rd 06, 01:08 AM posted to sci.environment,sci.space.policy,alt.global-warming,sci.geo.geology,sci.physics
Christopher P. Winter
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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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Old July 23rd 06, 02:04 AM posted to sci.environment,sci.space.policy,alt.global-warming,sci.geo.geology,sci.physics
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