Senators Demand NASA Continue Spending On Ares 152
FleaPlus writes "Senators Richard Shelby (R-AL and ranking member of the appropriations subcommittee handling NASA funding) and Robert Bennett (R-UT) have added an amendment onto an emergency spending bill for military operations in Afghanistan, reiterating that NASA must continue spending its funds on the Constellation program, particularly the medium-lift Ares I rocket. Alabama and Utah have strong ties to Ares/Constellation contractors, and both senators are opposed to the new direction for NASA, with Shelby describing it as a 'death march' for US spaceflight and criticizing the emphasis on commercial rockets."
Re:Science and Politics (Score:5, Funny)
How's that wrong? America isn't made up of people. It's made up of corporations. And those corporations need representation, dammit. Thankfully, the Republican and Democrat parties realize this, and do everything to support these True Americans, and allow them to participate in democracy.
Re:NASA is Military Spending (Score:1, Funny)
Speaking as a NASA contractor, NASA is definitely NOT military.
then how sir are you going to explain away their clearly militaristic logo?! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_logo.svg
i think it's quite clear the comet-esque item is actually a missile and the red lines the spilled blood of our enemies who's locations indicated by the "stars" (bomb sites) on the "blue circle" (earth).
caughtcha!
Re:People lose respect for a broken system (Score:4, Funny)
We definitely need a reboot. We are so fragmented and corrupt right now. On one hand, we have our virtual memory being consumed at an alarming rate while we borrow more and more disk space to cover operation costs that we don't have the memory for. On the other, we have applications that demand more and more memory without regard to how much the system can handle. The common solution is to put in more memory, but that only makes each byte of memory that much more insignificant and applications will demand more and more until our whole system comes crashing to a halt. ;)