Scraping history: NASA

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If we stop going to war we could take care of our own...There is going to come a time when the world gets so bad that the only thing left is space...

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You'll have to catch a ride w the Russians....

It's really sad that the space program has declined to where it is today. NASA never did a good job of promoting itself over the years to inform the public of all the spin off technology we gained through the research and development they did. Things as simple as better paints and plastics, chemicals, electronics that we take for granted every day. When I worked at JSC in Houston(70s-80s) we would get a publication each year called Spinoff , to bad everyone in the U.S. who filed a tax return each year didn't get one, it would have been a great way to show the public what they were getting for their money, besides a trip to orbit and back.



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I'd surmise that the dissembling of NASA is just a metaphor for the hopelessness embodied by the neo-socialist state. No big dreams or aspirations - everything boiled down to what serves the needs of the state. Where Kennedy envisioned a goal of national achievement that would overcome obstacles (exploration of space and the moon) as something noble, the statist today is horrified. Our newly empowered socialist elite looks for equality of outcome, a level-playing field, and see those that achieve as innately unfair to those who don't or won't achieve. How can bright students move ahead in class when the dullard is left behind - so we have "no child left behind"? Which ensures equality of suffering and equality of dullness - all outcomes must be controlled.

How can manifestly intelligent people within the space program build a spaceship to Mars when other people can't figure out how to get a free voter registration card? The statist cries "It isn't fair", thus NASA must be racist. No more colorful dreams or aspirations of greatness for America. That is offensive to the poor and third-world countries (why is NASA so racist, we must wonder?)

The powerful elite mandate universal despair as the new ideal of fairness. No lofty dreams are permissible - that is a waste of resources needed by the state. Resources needed to 'fix' society and usher in the utopian ideal. NASA must be sacrificed, along with the family, civility, and individualism, faith in God, entrepreneurism, The Constitution, sovereignty, and your personal freedoms.

NASA's new job today under the chaos of progressivism is to fight global warming and promote climate equity. But also it exists for the high goal of the promotion of multiculturalism. The new bold thinking on the left is to get all people to learn how to be accepting of strange and foreign ideas and learn to be tolerant of stupidity.

NASA doesn't need rocket engines anymore it just needs to learn how to be a hapless tool of the state.

Ain't that the truth Jonnyanglo. A level playing field, a big hold back, a manipulation of brilliance to average out mankind. This kind of thinking isn't natural, who comes up with this bs.

With the space program gone, we'll never get to Star Trek status....The Final Frontier.

My saving grace is reading space novels...some really good ones out there I can barley put down.

SpaceX is, and will continue to be the next step in space exploration.

I wonder what Tom or anybody else for that matter thinks of the skinwalker ranch?

Dead on Johnny!

NASA was never given a measurable budget for P.R. (((Shame, shame)))

Societal mediocrity has become the embraced norm.

Space-X is not a National (the peoples) interest, effort, "vision" or "dream".

Bravo Johnnyangelo. Very well said. I think America's best days are behind her, by popular demand. Let us all join hands and progress together into mediocrity.

I suppose those of us who still give a damn will just have to work quietly and under the state radar. As for myself, I intend to be a thorn in its side every chance I get.

Communist infiltrated academia in the 1920's. Johnny's post is a result of that infiltration.

Agreed Johhny 100%

"Communist infiltrated academia in the 1920's. Johnny's post is a result of that infiltration."

I think the "new guy" is accusing you of being a "Pinko"



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NASA-Tom Wrote:
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> NASA was never given a measurable budget for P.R.
> (((Shame, shame)))
>
> Societal mediocrity has become the embraced norm.
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> Space-X is not a National (the peoples) interest,
> effort, "vision" or "dream".


hi tom!
does "societal mediocrity has become the embraced norm" mean the same thing as
people just don't give a sh*t, and feel this way "most" of the time?

(h.h.!)
j.t.

On the money Johnny.

j.t. = Yes.

What really hurts us as a peoples of this Nation is: "You don't know what you don't know". How do you know what you are missing..... if you don't know it even exists. How do you measure the unknown. Where am I going with this?

Approx 80% of what you use today.... is a direct spin-off from space sciences..... or a indirect spin-off from space sciences. Most folks do not (and will never) realize this.

Going one step further. "What if" we still had a manned space program (and/or space shuttle)........ and ........ with the medical Dr's/PhD's/Scientists and crew..... were to discover a cure for cancer 17 months from now. Think of how many millions of lives this would affect. But.......... without a manned space program, it may (now) take us 17 years to discover a cure for cancer.

These are the kind of things whereby: "How do you measure the unknown". How do you know what you are missing......... if you don't know it even exists. You do not know.... what you do not know. How do you "measure" this.

Scrapping the space shuttle...... up front.... gives the immediate appearance of: "saves money"........ and it does..... in the short term/interim. But.......... once again.......... as per above......... how do you measure the unknown. (((Things that have yet to be discovered))).
How do you forcast a NASA fiscal budget with unknown predictions. ((( Yes, past performance, inventions, discoveries via space related sciences does help.......... some))).

I might put in how much of our advanced weaponry systems were a spin off of space technology research. Some say, big deal! Well, it is. It's not a really kind world out there if you fall behind on that curve and others want what you have. Having friends in that industry until recently that's another area being cut off.

Suppose we never developed the GPS system? That took a space program and the military program. Cutting edge computer systems are driven hard by military tech although you don't get to hear about their best for a bit but the push is still there. Similar demands in the world of imaging and many others.

The creeping I don't cares is such a polar opposite of where this society was the last 100 years. Doesn't bode well i fear. We are parraleling the path of Roman history in many ways at an accelerated rate.

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Kids were not too shabby......even though it was 101 years ago.....

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A population of sheep begets a government of wolves.

More Spin Off ,It even comes down to feeding the world. Landsat imaging, was being used not just to measure the size of forests etc, but the thermal images could tell you whether there was a healthy corn crop below or if it was diseased, giving a farmer a chance to be proactive before he lost a full season's crop. Better management of resources is paramount in this time of dwindling supplies of raw materials. To quote Tom, "You don't know what you don't know"

Phil....correct.