NASA - Need A Second Apinion
NASA said they were going to make a last ditch effort to reach their latest space probe, stuck somewhere outta commission on the surface of Mars. "Last ditch" seems a particularly apt phrase. NASA has already tossed some 300-million-taxpayer- dollars worth of equipment into that ditch.
It was only three months ago that another NASA probe crashed into Mars because one group of engineers was calculating in kilometers and another group was using miles. Oops. And no, I won’t say it doesn’t take a rocket scientist because it does, but not the ones who work for NASA.
You’d think for all the money we pour into the black hole, NASA would get the basics right. I mean, here they are planning to send people all over the universe, and they can’t safely land two unmanned probes into the surface of Mars. Not a good start, considering they had just gone up looking for water.
One NASA scientist said, "Water is the key to the exploitation of the planet." Not if you can’t get there, pal. And exploit Mars? Of what? This a bunch of yahoos has already cluttered our own atmosphere with tens of thousands of bits of debris, flying around at thousands of miles an hour, and now they’re off to trash other planets. Their purpose, of course, is to see if Mars is habitable...maybe so they’ll have a place to retire to. That would explain why they’re looking for water.
Hello? You squander a third of a billion dollars crashing two mechanical devices into the nearest planet; don’t think you’re engendering a lot of confidence. It’s not like NASA offered me a ride, but they can save their breath. Because that’s all they’ve got left. For the past twenty-five years, since we got bored watching men walk on the moon, NASA has been waging a desperate public relations public funding battle.
In order to protect their budget from being slashed as the country built up a $6-trillion debt, NASA has tried everything. They even sent 77-year-old John Glenn back into space. Where NASA got stuck was thinking they needed real live people to keep public interest. The problem was that in designing space flight for people, they drove up the operating costs and design times by 90%.
Let see, they spent $63-million crashing a probe into the Moon looking for water, and now two into Mars. And they’re hoping now to rush a shuttle crew up to see if they can fix the stumble-prone Hubble telescope, now in the rest mode because half its gyroscopes are broken.
Maybe NASA ought to be put in the rest mode.
And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.
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