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Hurricane Threatens Shuttle Program
evenprime writes "Hurricane Frances may end NASA's space shuttle program. John Logsdon, a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board and the head of George Washington University's Space Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., has said: 'If there were serious damage to one or two of the orbiters or the facilities needed to
process and launch the orbiters, I think it would raise a very large question about
the continuation of the shuttle program.'"
Bush's ideas for a new space program are simply a pipe dream with some funding
obChappelle: Mars, bitches!
Seriously though, I have to laugh when I see Bush and space program in the same sentence. Any time a goverment program gets mentioned by him along with the words "increase in funding" it means a decrease in funding or getting canned. Besides, what good is a space program when we're having a fucking good war with Iraq, under God?
Yeah, flamebait.. mod away. Whatever.
Speak truth to power.
I'd rather we spent our extra money on science, research, our space program (with some better leadership however), etc. Screw the starving.
How can I say that? Because every time we try to help starving people in third world countries, it does absolutely no good. Their dictatorial governments just take all our aid and use it for their own purposes.
The only way to truly help those people is to invade those countries, implement new governments under our own control, and then help all the people inside. However, notice that the rest of the world gets all pissed off whenever we go someplace and impose our will there. Of course, the rest of the world never does anything to help those starving people either, but that's beside the point. And the locals get pissed off too, so obviously they'd rather starve or live under dictatorial regimes.
Therefore, since we'll just piss everyone off if we help, and we'll piss everyone off if we don't, I say we just let all those people starve, and use the money to advance science instead, which will help all of humanity, not just some oppressed people that refuse to do anything to better their situation.