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Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon
bonch writes "Obama's budget proposal will contain no funding for the Constellation program, which was to send astronauts to the moon by 2020. Instead, NASA will be focused on terrestrial science, such as monitoring global warming. One anonymous official said: 'We certainly don't need to go back to the moon.'"
Are you kidding? Manned spaceflight is one of the most interesting things we do, Earth observing, while necessary, is boring. I'm glad China or India is going to beat us back to the moon because we're more interested in providing healthcare to lazy people.
Other than the little perks of a blackberry and using the internet to vamp up election day turnout, Obama is just short of a luddite. We spent(and will spend) almost 1T on a worthless stimulus package last year(and this year). We get nothing for this. Social spending, social spending, social spending. No moon, mars..etc.
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NASA's war on science, their climate campaign, is beating NASA's space program. Now that the climate scam is being revealed, NASA might end up with two projects in ruins.
How about before we pour billions into "monitoring" global warming, we first prove it's existence beyond a Nobel-thieving lia...er, politician?
Oh, wait, I almost forgot. This "re-funding" idea is coming from yet another Nobel-thieving lia...er, politician.
In related news, there is a new Government-funded study to determine the effects of funding pointless studies. Since the budget itself is part of the study, it remains perpetual and therefore unlimited, eventually to be simply reclassified as a tax, which is set to trigger yet another study on the effects of converting perpetual funding...
Are you an idiot?
If you have read any assessment of using the moon as a launching point for space travel you would have known that it is not practical. It wastes less energy to travel to mars directly than to go to the moon.
Let's face it, we've just got a bunch of homeboys up in DC now looting for every last federal cent to dole out to crackheads. That's great, instead of putting more people in space and on the moon, my tax dollars can now finance a bunch of crackwhores getting abortions and methadone.
We now officially have a government of the crooked, stealing on behalf of the useless.
Way to go, socialists, you win.
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I see this keeps repeating, but this is utter bullshit. US military is needed just as much as a kick in the balls. Europe certainly doesn't need it.
LOL - fine, so have your democratically elected leaders let our democratically elected leaders know. The vast majority of Americans have no desire to spend billions protecting Europeans from threats they don't believe exist. The US certainly isn't occupying Europe, and when Rumsfeld made noises about reducing forces in Europe a few years ago your leaders screamed like they were all French. But I'm sure you know best.
Face reality, pal - the only utter bullshit is that emanating from your keyboard. Your leaders have no intention of letting the US go, much to my wallet's regret. Maybe your snottiness and grotesque ingratitude can convince them to stop freeloading on the US, raise your taxes and mount their own defenses, but I'm skeptical.
The only thing the US military does those days is war crimes. Lots of them.
Ah, nothing like the ungrateful whining of pampered idiots who won't pay for their own defense.
I would be all for this if they would cut the other programs we dump money into like the rathole we call "Social Programs".....
If we paid the same amount for welfare and food stamps as we paid to NASA we would be on Freeking MARS by now!!!!
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