Remember the line in Apollo 13? NASA flight director, played by Ed Harris, showed how little his patience was with those who accepted anything less than success. When faced with a doubter, Harris boasted:”With respect sir, I think this will be our finest hour.” That line was awesome! NASA was on the brink of disaster and the Apollo astronauts were facing the prospects of being entombed in the Odyssey forever. However, NASA pulled it together. Disaster was avoided and the astronauts returned back to earth safely. It was dubbed a “successful failure.” Their objective – the moon – wasn’t reached; however, the space program was saved from a devastating setback by a little grit, determination, and luck. Not to mention, with pennies compared to what the NASA budget is today.
Today, NASA has no objective and no shuttle program. And just like with any other entity heavily subsidized by the government, overtime it loses its effectiveness, becomes bloated, and is subject to political control. The latter obviously can only be explained by its Muslim outreach program and other positions recently taken under the guide of the Obama administration.
According to Obama it’s time to modernize NASA’s space program. And by space program, he means telling Muslims how smart and wonderful they are and how the world has a debt of gratitude from all their accomplishments. Had there been no Muslim scientists there never would have been a NASA. It should all be another giant leap for mankind.
Michael Griffin, who headed NASA during the last four years of the Bush administration, says the space agency’s new goal to improve relations with the Islamic world and boost Muslim self-esteem is a “perversion” of NASA’s original mission to explore space. “NASA was chartered by the 1958 Space Act to develop the arts and sciences of flight in the atmosphere and in space and to go where those technologies will allow us to go,” Griffin said in an interview Tuesday. “That’s what NASA does for the country. It is a perversion of NASA’s purpose to conduct activities in order to make the Muslim world feel good about its contributions to science and mathematics.” (Washington Examiner)
While Muslim scientists and Muslim contributions to space exploration may not be as wild and speculative as global warming and concerned aliens, NASA goes undeterred.
Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth’s atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.
This highly speculative scenario is one of several described by a Nasa-affiliated scientist and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University that, while considered unlikely, they say could play out were humans and alien life to make contact at some point in the future.
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