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Ex-NASA Employees Accuse Agency of 'Extreme Position' On Climate Change

Posted by timothy on from the hi-dr-potocki! dept.

grumpyman writes "A coalition of 49 ex-NASA employees, including seven Apollo astronauts, have accused the U.S. space agency of sullying its reputation by taking the 'extreme position' of concluding that carbon dioxide is a major cause of climate change. Is the claim in this letter opinion or fact?"

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  1. Re:If It Is Fact ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because we should set world economic policy based on a High School experiment.

  2. Re:Hey guys, STFU and build a rocket, would you? by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 3, Funny
    Just because people are stupid does not change the facts.

    It does if they are stupid enough - remember, 2+2=5 for large values of 2!

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  3. Re:Hey guys, STFU and build a rocket, would you? by Talderas · · Score: 5, Funny

    I apologize, but I must simply parse this most excellent post.

    They should be working on fucking planes that go into fucking space!

    Thanks to the wonderful diversity of the word fuck, I believe there are at least three acceptable interpretations of this sentence.

    1. The engineers should be fucking planes that go into space.
    2. The engineers should be creating planes that are capable of going into space and are capable of fucking people or things.
    3. The engineers should be creating planes that go into space.

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  4. Re:Hey guys, STFU and build a rocket, would you? by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 3, Funny

    The other half is "outreach to the Muslim world"

    Isn't that what they call ICBMs these days?