Standard reply; Of what use is a small child?
My thought; Hey! This kid's 40 years old! It's high time it got a job and started to earn it's keep.
NASA-Hasn't had an original thought since Von Braun, only the mind of a bureaucrat. ( and not a very bright bureaucrat at that)
BORG-Acquires technology by assimilation.
NASA-Acquires technology by assimilating subcontractors.
BORG-Turns individuals into drones.
NASA-Turns individuals and subcontractors into drones.
BORG-The purpose of individuals is to serve the BORG.
NASA-Thinks that the purpose of the Free Enterprise system is to serve NASA.
BORG-Totally egocentric, "WE ARE BORG", is the answer to anything.
NASA-Totally egocentric, "WE ARE NASA", thinks they can solve any problem if given enough money.
BORG-Individuality is despised and suppressed, the Collective dominates.
NASA-Persecutes all whistler blowers and individual thinkers, the bureaucrat dominates. (yep, same dimwit)
BORG-The BORG ignore individuals, they are only interested in technology.
NASA- Ignores individuals who are tired of not getting into Space, they are only interested in new expensive technology.
BORG-The ultimate evil.
NASA-Believed by some to be the ultimate evil.
Next, Darleks and NASA. "! EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE!!"
You can spot the bad physics in the last episodes of Startrek TNG, and Babylon 5.
You enjoy the physic humor home page. www.physics.wisc.edu/~ups/humor
You see rockets when you look at ball-point pens and pencils
Whenever you see a large storage tank, you try to figure out what size rocket it would fit on.
You can name all the planets, and their correct order.
You actually watched the televised coverage of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the Moon. (and took a picture of the TV)
On vacation you go out of your way to visit rocket museums, you stick your head inside the rocket motors to check out the injector design and then have to explain to onlookers (in a fakey Russian accent with your camera in hand) "Am not Russian spy, am tourist".
You want to be involved with something that requires lots of hard work; about which you have not nearly enough information to know what your doing; and the end product will most likely make a determined effort to kill you.
ESTRAGON: Let's go.
VLADIMIR: We can't.
ESTRAGON: Why not?
VLADIMIR: We're waiting for Godot.
ESTRAGON: Ah! (Despairing.) What'll we do, what'll we do!
NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY: Let's go!
A SPACE ENTHUSIAST: We can't.
NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY: Why not?
A SPACE ENTHUSIAST: We're waiting for NASA.
NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY: Ah! (Despairing.) What'll we do, what'll we do!
* Dress up like a Klingon and go to Star Trek conventions.
* Join a UFO watch group.
* Lobby congress to support NASA's space agenda.
* Join a Space/NASA support group, and lobby Congress to support NASA's space agenda.
* Become educated in a science that applies to Space Shuttle or Space Station payloads, and lobby Congress to support NASA's space agenda.
* Study acting so that you can star in a NASA sponsored space drama that blames every problem on the money grubbing contractors. (i.e. The Cape)
* Fly model rockets, but only under government supervision, and never anything "high power".
* Never ever seek to learn about, rocket engines, launch vehicles, or the economics of transportation systems.
* Defend NASA as the only true path to Space.
* Don't expect to fly into Space in your lifetime.
If you live in the real world, and want to live in Space, you should;
* "Get a life." William Shatner.
* Study the economics of Free Enterprise transportation systems vs. State transportation systems.
* Force yourself to question the motives of, or say something bad about, NASA, at least once a week.
* Study Chemistry, Physics, Economics, and rocket engines.
* Invest in, participate in, and become a part of, a small Texas space transportation company.
* Lobby Congress to privatize America's space transportation industry.
Employees of a Japanese company and a group of NASA employees decided to hold a three mile canoe race. Both teams practiced long and hard. NASA management even became involved in the effort. On the day of the big race, the Japanese team won by a mile.
The NASA administrator decided that the reason for the crushing defeat had to be found. NASA set up an "Enterprise Project Team" made up of senior administration personnel to investigate. Congress also scheduled hearings in the House and Senate committees. The President directed the National Space Council to develop new initiatives.
The NASA conclusion was that the Japanese team had eight people rowing and one person steering, while the NASA team had eight people steering and one person rowing. The report was filed but not widely circulated. Congress held hearings for six months seeking to find a conspiracy of left wing commie pinkos but adjourned for reelection without reaching a conclusion. The National Space Council called for "Another Space Exploration Initiative".
A consulting company, an oversight company and an auditing company were given contracts and paid an incredible amount of money. They spent two years of intense effort, constructed a $100 Million dollar Super Computing Rowing Simulator, and in a 15,000 page report concluded that; "too many people were steering and not enough people were rowing." The report was filed but not widely circulated.
To head up the recovery effort, NASA created the Office of Aquatic Propulsion Systems which reported directly to the Administrator. The rowing teams management structure was completely restructured to:
4 steering supervisors,
8 steering quality supervisors
3 regional center steering superintendents,
1 Assistant Administrator for Steering, and staff.
Also implemented was a new performance improvement system that would maximize the efficiency of the rower. It was called the "Rowing Quality First Program" or RQFP, with kick-off dinners, Congressional and staff junkets, and developmental sessions with contractors on Caribbean islands. Three Billion dollars was appropriated for the development of a National Rowing Transportation Vehicle. Contracts were let in all fifty States, the District of Columbia, and American Samoa. A select group of Seven Rowers was presented to the public at a press conference before they began training at the new 2.7 mile Super Aquatic Operations Facility. A super secret military program was begun to study the national defense implications of rowing. strange black shapes were seen on a lake in Nevada. The involvement of UFO technology was widely rumored.
Although the Japanese had accepted a rematch for the very next year, there was a six year delay before the new NASA vehicle was completed. The christening of the 5,000 ton NRTV was carried on live TV by all the networks and by the new NASA satellite system set up to coordinate data recovery and navigation of the NRTV.
The Japanese team won by 2.99999 miles as the NRTV sank at the starting line. Everyone in the NRRTV program was promoted, and the President personally attended the funeral of the Rower who had a school, a park, and an Air Force Base named after him. There was an immediate call for Congressional investigations and a new high technology "National Reusable Rowing Transportation Vehicle".
Could it be that NASA had to drop it's planned use of WASA and also the "worm" logo because of the Sesame Street worms in space story line? Is Worms to the Moon a shoot at an ineffectual NASA? Are Sesame Street and The Children's Television Workshop right wing organizations seeking to open the space frontier to free enterprise? This looks like a conspiracy that needs investigating. More later.