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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.'"
martinalderson@gmail.com is concerned for the safty of the shuttle and the NASA astronauts, some of which may have GMail accounts. martinalderson@gmail.com would like to point out how concerned he is about the possibility of delaying shuttle launches.
P.S: martinalderson@gmail.com hasn't yet given a GMail invite to a serving NASA astronaut.
A police state is what Bush wants and a police state does exactly what you are referring to - slows down technology, slows down science (heck, Bush doesn't even know what science is) and slows down innovation and adoption of technologies.
A Bush vision of freedom is conformity. If you don't play by "american" rules you don't fit in and we will oppress you.
When i see people with "Another 4 years" stickers on there car it makes me sick as a HUMAN to know another HUMAN supports such a "beast" as our president.
How can people be so ignorant of society, people, and humans in general to support such a "beast"???
I love america, i love our values and our society - but not as a whole. I love america because i love the beauty of our country, our land and the history of the growth of our country. I love segments of our society and people with values - i don't oppress or try and control the peaces i "don't love" and that is yet again part of what america is.
Being oppressive of other countries and misleading people into believing we are liberating people through the means of war disgusts me as an american, as a person and as a human.
Peace is found through understanding, learning and processes of agreements, arrangements and most importantly through TRUST. Liberation through force doesn't offer ANY of that and liberation through force is an impossibility.
Thank you Bush for "liberating" iraq in the name of your "war on terrorism" while half of america falls.
Thank you bush for your police state vision and the hindering of freedom of choice, freedom of growth and the control of all aspects of life. Thank you for making corporate america part of your doctorine and vision of "peace".
Thanks for making it impossible to be a part of society and live within the means of my family.
What does this have to do with the hurricane and space ships - it goes back to the police state values our president has in that it doesn't matter to him so it doesn't matter to america.
Just like stem cell research doesn't matter to his wife so it doesn't matter to america.
The success of my family and my freedoms and what i value as freedoms don't matter to him so it doesn't matter to america.
I grew up with a dream to be an astronaut and the dreams of what exploration can offer - but it doesn't matter to bush's america. The only value of space exploration to bush is to increase his so called popularity.
If he had a real vision for america it wouldn't be under the guise of terrorism and compassion. It would be for the sake of humanity.
Americans should grow up and see that everyone in the world is a human no matter how unique and different they are - a believer in faith or science - we are all humans.
4 more years and what right will our children have to understand or even conceive of the values we appreciated today and yesterday.
Meatwad: Hey, you guys, did you say that it would be easy to get whatever I want, like faster upload speed, because that's what I really want.
Inignot: Getting it is easy. Filling it with illegal substances and sending it across the border is not.
Err: Yeah, see, those dogs, they can smell anything. So you gotta kick 'em in the throat.
Meatwad: Well hey now, guys, look. I do not want to do anything illegal here... but I would kill somebody... in front of their own mama to get even 128kb/s upstream. And if anybody testifies against me, I'll gouge their eyes out.