Why is Hu Jintao referred to as a scientist when in the next sentence it's clearly stated that he was trained as an engineer?
I see the general public often being confused by the two terms, but I expect better from a slashdot posting.
Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been. - Theodore Von Karman
http://www.todayinsci.com/K/Karman_Theodore/KarmanTheodore-Quotations.htm
Much of this "new" information was published in 1985 Kelly Johnson's biography, "More than My Share of it all". A fabulous read:
http://tinyurl.com/d4ej8b
So long as nothing suspicious shows up on these reports government employees have nothing to fear, we must all sacrifice something in the battle against terrorism.
Please invite the government into my life. Allow them access without a warrant into my finances, my medical information, my marriage, my neighbors and any investments. Allow them to store the information into a huge database that can be accessed in an uncontrolled manner my thousands of federal employees and pray that someone doesn't steal my identity.
Oh yea, there is lots to fear and I guess what I fear most is the folks that say you have nothing to fear.
This has very little to do with terrorism and more to do with the government trying to create a worldwide database without the courts getting involved and those pesky warrants.
1) Lisa Nowak - This process would never have caught the problems with Lisa. If it did, would it have been worth the cost?
2) JPL does not work on the manned program. JPL is know for it's science spacecraft.
3) JPL does not work on spy satellites. Look at Boeing and Northrop for spy programs. JPL is required, by law, to share information gained from it's discoveries about planets, moons and the stars.
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Why is Hu Jintao referred to as a scientist when in the next sentence it's clearly stated that he was trained as an engineer? I see the general public often being confused by the two terms, but I expect better from a slashdot posting. Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been. - Theodore Von Karman http://www.todayinsci.com/K/Karman_Theodore/KarmanTheodore-Quotations.htm
Much of this "new" information was published in 1985 Kelly Johnson's biography, "More than My Share of it all". A fabulous read: http://tinyurl.com/d4ej8b
the NASA/JPL spacecraft was Marinner 9, the USSR spacecraft was Mars 2 and 3 in 1971 http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/past/mariner8-9.html
Oh I love this!!!
So long as nothing suspicious shows up on these reports government employees have nothing to fear, we must all sacrifice something in the battle against terrorism.
Please invite the government into my life. Allow them access without a warrant into my finances, my medical information, my marriage, my neighbors and any investments. Allow them to store the information into a huge database that can be accessed in an uncontrolled manner my thousands of federal employees and pray that someone doesn't steal my identity.
Oh yea, there is lots to fear and I guess what I fear most is the folks that say you have nothing to fear.
This has very little to do with terrorism and more to do with the government trying to create a worldwide database without the courts getting involved and those pesky warrants.
A couple of problems with your defense of NASA:
1) Lisa Nowak - This process would never have caught the problems with Lisa. If it did, would it have been worth the cost?
2) JPL does not work on the manned program. JPL is know for it's science spacecraft.
3) JPL does not work on spy satellites. Look at Boeing and Northrop for spy programs. JPL is required, by law, to share information gained from it's discoveries about planets, moons and the stars.