Forget the Economy - Fund NASA
Within the last 36 hours, the stocks plunged, Heath Ledger died, the Oscars were announced and Hillary moved on to California.
The media has been all over these stories this week - you’ll get plenty of coverage from them. In fact, you’ll get too much.
What better time to talk about space?
Next month, 50 space exploration experts are going to Stanford University to meet and talk about the future of manned space exploration.
The participants planning to attend the invitation-only brainstorming session — dubbed Examining the Vision: Balancing Science and Exploration — said they hope to come up with ideas that will put the United States back on track toward manned exploration of the solar system.
“I think there are concerns over funding and destinations both,” said Wesley Huntress, Jr., a staff scientist in the Geophysical Lab at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C., who plans to attend. “I think a reasonable assumption that we are all likely to make is … that there is not going to be a huge infusion of funds.”
Thanks to our pseudo-welfare state and bureaucrat notions of how to “fix the economy,” there’s less and less funding available for this kind of thing.
With signs of a global financial slowdown increasingly evident, and calls for a $150 billion economic stimulus package by President Bush and Congress, national space activities are unlikely to gain increased funding.
This is BS. Bush’s pledge to send a man to Mars isn’t JFK-like. It’s just words.
While the Bush administration pleased many space-exploration leaders with its Vision for Space Exploration four years ago, the lofty goals of the plan — including establishing a base on the moon and sending explorers to Mars — look likely to be grounded by a continued lack of funding for NASA.
The funding falls well short of being enough to explore Mars by 2030, said Louis Friedman, the executive director for The Planetary Society
2030?
2030?!!!!
We could be there by 2018 if we wanted. Heck, we could say moo.
If the government can spend $150 gagillion in tax rebates when the economy slows, why did they need our money in the first place? So they can continue NOT funding NASA? The economic stimulus is an admittance that our money doesn’t go anywhere important - except the military.
This day-to-day, Today-Show economy hype idiocy is short-sighted and childish. We don’t need to be micromanaged. We’re people, and our economy will do better. Then the government says “here’s 800 back! It wasn’t needed!”
Thanks for letting us know that before we paid our taxes, buttholes.
Bleep the economy. Fund NASA.
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