State of Alabama Fighting NASA's New Plan

FleaPlus writes "Alabama politicians have formed a 'task force' dedicated to fighting NASA's new plans to cancel the costly Constellation/Ares program, which is largely based in Alabama. The chronically mismanaged Constellation project attempted to build new rockets in-house and replicate an Apollo-style lunar program with minimal investment in new technologies. NASA's new boosted budget revives formerly suppressed R&D efforts into critical technologies needed for a sustainable push towards Mars and intermediate waypoint destinations, works with (instead of trying to compete with) existing commercial rockets to transport cargo/crew to orbit, and funds a stream of robotic precursor missions to scout other worlds and demonstrate new technologies. The Alabama task force fighting the new plan includes former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin and former Ares project manager Steve Cook."

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How is this modded funny?

[tjstork]

Yeah lets make fun of southerners, when we could just as easily look at the long story of blacks hating space spending. I mean, if we're going to make fun of white people, let's have a look at the other side.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081129115539AABRPXx

http://www.niggaknow.com/technology/white-people-dont-know-shit-about-space/

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080911165052AAbljAt

http://ericstoller.com/blog/2008/09/09/space-race-matters/

and it goes on and on...

and then you have Obama's own plan to cut NASA manned space flight and dole out bucks to the third world...

Re:Well, shoot, son

[Idiomatick]

http://www.curefaith.com/2009/02/state-religion-vs-iq.html -- That shows Alabama is stupid, and being 2nd in religion shows ignorance. Cheers.