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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.'"
Because the Director of the Goddard SPACE flight center is the lightning rod character that in the 70's cried foul about the ozone layer depletion that was going to freeze the earth, then he reversed himself with no supporting data to cry foul about global warming in the late 90's and AlGore then saw his opportunity.
Now the Earth Observation Systems at Goddard get funded for whatever they want and they want to study earth more for the lemmings that follow along.
They wouldn't need to be replaced because Europe and Japan are mostly uninterested in the continuing misadventures of imperialism.
They'd become interested in them pretty quickly when the Middle East destabilized into sectarian violence and their oil imports dried up......
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
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. We have nukes (and we should get rid of them). The other day some commenter said that we needed the US military to defend us against Russia. Really? What's the US military going to do anyway should Russia decide to attack? Despite their Chicago school of economics-inflicted state of dereliction, they still have enough nukes in working order to pulverize the globe's surface 10 times over.
The only thing the US military does those days is war crimes. Lots of them.
PR, nothing more. How do *you* explain why there was no US response to the catastrophe that was Haiti for the last 50 years ... it's not like they suddenly became the poorest western nation overnight, and it's not the first time they've had floods, hurricanes or earthquakes. The entire country is one big fuckup, and the US did nothing.
Bullshit. The US has poured money into that hellhole for years. In the 90s we deposed the military Government that seized power in an illegal coup.
sound familiar ? 1940s, a rather large war that you also arrived late to and then tried to claim all the glory ?
Our arrival wouldn't have been necessary if the French and Brits had any semblance of national honor and had opposed Hitler in the early 30s when he had no military might to back up his sabre rattling. Heck, the French alone could have nipped the whole problem in the bud in 1936 when Hitler reoccupied the Rhineland.
Sorry, you don't get to blame us for your failures there either. Four hundred thousand Americans died because you couldn't control the rabid dog in your own backyard.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.