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Stern Measures Keep NASA's Kepler Mission on Track
Hugh Pickens writes "NASA's new Space Science Division Director, Dr. S. Alan Stern, appears to be making headway in keeping in space projects like the Kepler Mission at their original budgeted costs. The New York Times reports that Stern's plan is to hold projects responsible for overruns, forcing mission leaders to trim parts of their projects, streamline procedures or find other sources of financing. 'The mission that makes the mess is responsible for cleaning it up,' Stern says. Because of management problems, technical issues and other difficulties on the Kepler Mission, the price tag for Kepler went up 20% to $550 million and the launch slipped from the original 2006 target date to 2008. When the Kepler team asked for another $42 million, Stern's team threatened to open the project to new bids so other researchers could take it over using the equipment that had already been built."
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This is completely OT, but I"m having an argument about the nature of rape. The other party are trying to convince me that it's about control, not sex.
I explained to them that men want sex. Men also want TVs. Some men, if they can't afford a TV or don't want to pay for it, will steal the TV. Similarly, some men, if they aren't offered sex by a lover, can't afford it, or don't want to pay for it, will rape.
The other party couldn't grasp this.
Taking the TV without the consent of the owner of the TV is not about wielding control over the owner, it's about getting a TV.
Having sex without the consent of the owner of the body is not about wielding control over the owner, it's about getting sex.
How simple is this? It's about an abhorrent means to an end.
It's completely ruining work into rape prevention that there's this feminist refusal to acknowledge that it's natural for men to have a strong drive for sex, and that some men do not apply that drive appropriately.
"I want sex."
"No, you want control."
All further counselling is based on convincing the man of something that's not remotely true. Placed in denial, the potential rapist who has gone to seek help is no less likely to rape, and the convicted rapist is never rehabilitated.
Need examples? Hell, only last week a drunk girlfriend at a party was nearly "taken advantage of". You think the man was doing it to control her, rather than to get his rocks off?
Now all we need is Dr. S. Alan Stern to run as VP with Dr. Ron Paul and we can clean this place up. :)
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