Pull plug on NASA

In a land of vidiots produced by a school system run by and for marxism impaired teachers, Farah has somehow managed to build a news source that is willing to publish that which the LameStream media won't.

Give Farah credit where it is due. The foam problem has a clear component tracable to the different characteristics of reon blown foam compared to the PC mandated repalcement form.

As this is a de facto connection between the enviro whacko positions and the deaths of the seven aboard the shuttle AND a clear placing of blame on the enviro-whackos, I feel Farah deserves an "Atta Boy" award for saying what the LameStream media refused to say.

Might I suggest a regular reading of WorldNetDaily.com? You will, however, find that often it is FreeRepublic.com where you can first read about news items.

We all look forward to Dr. Griffin's efforts to reform NASA and return it to its former glory.

I note Dr. Griffin's academic credentials listed in his official biography for the education of my fellow Freepers:

[Dr. Griffin] received a bachelor's degree in Physics from Johns Hopkins University; a master's degree in Aerospace Science from Catholic University of America; a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland; a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California; a master's degree in Applied Physics from Johns Hopkins University; a master's degree in Business Administration from Loyola College; and a master's degree in Civil Engineering from George Washington University.

I have no idea who you're talking about but I don't see anyone screaming.

Red6

I don't know anything about him; but why is he an idiot?

Red6

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"SAVE A ROCK--(Then throw it at a environmentalist.)" You say.

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I saw this one at the gun show yesterday and it made me laugh.

"When the last tree is gone, you can wipe you @ss on the spotted owl."

Red6

In the government they never fire those responsible, only some poor stooge who has little control over what happened. Then they create another “office” or “system” which is supposed to make it all better. After something goes wrong you must show action, some sort of solution, even if it’s eyewash.

To sloppy to have accountability, big and anonymous, bureaucratic and slow this giant EEO employer is not a fine example of efficiency. It’s effective some times, but not efficient ever!

Red6

Hmmmm,

So the whole article (Putty and all) is irrelevant basically?

Red6

Anyone who thinks they can compete against the US mail service is also an idiot. You know who said that to whom years ago?

I'm not stating NASA is stupid, but they are a government organization. In the government decisions are often not made on what is better, cheaper, faster to deliver. No, sometimes POLITICS creep in. Do we have enough women pilots? Is that putty (If that's at all the problem?) to some EPA standard? In what state will it be made? Hmmm, will I be able to get a job working for "XYZ" if I award them this contract? Will my branch or section loose influence if we don’t procure this or that (Turf preservation)?

Sometimes the government is incredibly inefficient or even corrupt. All those bogus made up variables that get in the way, but are dictated on you result in stupid outcomes at times. You end up with women in flying positions who do not have complete control of the aircraft because they are too small (UH-1 had that issue years ago), but get waivers because, well; we don't have enough women aviators and our “quota” now euphemistically called an Army “goal” has not been met. What spikes my curiosity here is if people died because we are trying to be "environmental." Because something so asinine could happen!

If you think politics don't influence the decision making process then you're A) Naïve B) Naïve C) Naïve

Why do you think CA has windmills all over the place, had the money to expand it’s power grid for years yet is buying power from other states and has had brown-outs in the recent past (LA area)? Sometimes politics get in the way of common sense; build a nuclear power plant. Just because there are a bunch of highly educated people there who individually have a lot of common sense, does not mean that the organization always collectively acts that way.

Red6

do some web research- there is a lot out there on this topic with some compelling arguments.

The definiton of 'technology' is 'something that doesn't work yet'.

Much of the shuttle is still technology because aeronautical engineering has not advanced all that much in 25 years compared to electronics. Probably because many aeronautical engineers were laid off at the end of the Apollo missions in the early 70s, and the industry has not recovered since.

BUMP

When I lived in Montana during the whold spotted owl thing there were lots of people with the bumper stickers that read "Spotted Owl Tastes Like Chicken"

YEAH!