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Incompetents and idiots rule.

The nation that developed the A-Bomb, won WWII, and, using slide rules instead of computers, built rockets that put men on the moon and brought them home now has a government that cannot find its own butt with both hands, a searchlight and a GPS.

Bummer, ain't it? In 1970, we could put man on the Moon. In 2015, we cannot even get a cargo rocket into orbit. As the old Highlights magazine said from my childhood, "what is wrong with this picture?" I feel like I'm in the movie, "Idiocracy," where we have a Black President. Still, in that movie, I have to respect and give credit to President Mountain Dew Comacho, although the guy wasn't wound too tight, his heart was at least in the right place and he was truly empathetic and interested in helping the American people and wanted to really fix America. I have to give Comacho that and if I was there, my support.

Back to space and technology, yeah, we have better computers but that does not really mean a thing getting people into space, we did it with a lot less. I remember in 2003, they made a Wright Flyer designed with modern materials and computers celebrating the then 100 year anniversary of the Wright Brother's flight. It flopped and fell flat on it's face, yet the original Wright flyer was made with the engines then along with using basic wood, cloth and ropes, yet it flew.

Being the ham radio, space and computer geek I am, even in the the 1960's or 1970, had someone came along, I'm sure they could have kick started the home computer revolution early, the main difference is that before the invention of the microprocessor, you might have had a group of 3 or 4 chips doing the same function.

All six previous SpaceX resupply missions were successful. If this one failure makes them bungling incompetents, then the vaunted Russians are incompetent as well since it was one of theirs that failed on the April resupply mission.

"Sh&t. I know sh&t's bad right now, with all that starving bullsh&t, and the dust storms, and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution."
- President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (Idiocracy, 2005)

Life is imitating art.