Obama is LOST IN SPACE!

I’m less bothered by this. The money that goes towards the shuttle program would be much better spent on alternative energy. For the next little while, I do think most of the space exploration is going to be done on Earth.

Ultimately that’s the idea, from my understanding. The Ares and Constellation programs were horribly mismanaged, overbudget, and behind schedule, so they were cut. NASA itself is still well funded. We could get NASA on new projects, but that money is currently tied up in congress because they’d rather go home to campaign for re-election than actually pass the bill authorizing new funding.

haha, i’m sure that a majority of the unemployed 10% is qualified to engineer, build, and test space shuttles. still, as a researcher who sucks from the teat of NIH funding, i have to lower my head in regret for anyone who loses funding for their for their projects that may or may not actually benefit mankind but are still really fun to do anyway.

Really, I feel like Obama has been trying his best, but he can’t get anywhere with the current congress. Constitutionally, the president doesn’t make all the decisions; he enforces the directives of the congress. So if you really want someone to blame, blame the idiots in the senate and the house. Let’s vote them out in November!

Exactly Symplectic.

America’s been behind other countries for years now. Just take a look at our health care and education and look at other countries. We are “Home of the Free, Land of the Brave” and Home of the highest healthcare bills and most sick, and land of the stupid.

I don’t think its a good idea to rely on other countries to get us into space. There are a lot of things we should continue to do on our own, I’m not opposed to cooperation, but we need to have our own programs as a viable option.

Are you seriously getting in an uproar over this? I bet that you’d be just as pissed if he DID continue these hideously expensive programs at a time like this.

I almost feel like supporting you here freedom now just cause the usual suspects haven’t. I just can’t. Of all the programs that need funding, the space programs are pretty far down my list of priorities.

I don’t really have much opinion on this seeing as I know that the space program did have so much money where we havent even explored our oceans, focus on this planet before others…HOWEVER there have been many discoveries that help the rest of our society from places like NASA and they do create jobs, but that money can go into other things to create jobs. Oh and the recession ended a year ago

A few notes here have been somewhat dismissive of the space program, which probably isn’t fair. It’s resulted in a lot of huge developments over the years, and space exploration is certainly a worthy goal. So I wasn’t trying to put down the space program earlier. It’s simply that I’m not sure the shuttle program is the best way to accomplish space exploration at this moment.

The big developments in it for the next while will be done on Earth. And the shuttle program is of limited utility in developing alternative energy. The shuttle program is a worthy one, just not right now.

Obama is not “a real FREAKING idiot”. He knows exactly what he is doing. This move will weaken the United States. That is his intent. It is his agenda to destroy this country.

First I’d have to ‘believe that Neil Armstrong took a step on the moon. All evidence seems to state the fact that he didn’t. Just my opinion and I’m welcome to it. 😀

I’ve kind of got mixed feelings about the space program. Yes, it’s ‘neat’ that we’re finding all this stuff out but it’s kind of a seconded priority. We don’t NEED to know this stuff. It’s like getting an old vehicle that needs paint and a new motor. Which one is the more important issue that should be handled first? That’s the way our economy is right now. Space can wait. Handle up on

other things first. You say that NASA will create jobs, this is true. Here’s my thing though, so will finding alternative sources of energy and this is something that is a NEED, not a want. Like paint on an old vehicle. We have several ways to get good, clean, RENEWABLE energy from mother earth and we choose not to because of the monopoly that power companies have.

Geothermal energy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_energy Wave energy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_Energy Solar energy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy I don’t know about other people, but going green and finding alternative energy sources far outweighs the need to go to space.

You are correct and to those who blame congress? It is a democrat house and sente, dem’s hold the MAJORITY in BOTH houses! Any Bill they wish to pass can be done so without a single republican vote. So if something fails to pass it must be horribly bad if the dem’s will not support it.

RYN: Yes!!! A sense of humour!!! Politics is pretty fun, I like it too *hic grin* haha and yes I just find it hard to believe that something that big could get pulled off WITHOUT govt. involvement somehow, like if they’d catch me acidising their power lines they’d catch people planning on stealing planes and hitting skyscrapers with them!

But yes I agree with everything you said on my entry, although I’m not so sure about the space program thing.. it’s very expensive and unviable; we will never live in space is my point, too much energy required but yes as you said the American people are VERY loving toward the space program, it has been such a big thing for such a big time I think it probably won’t help his popularity

Watcher: One piece of disagreement, but it’s a big one. Democrats have the most seats in the Senate, but that doesn’t mean they control it. The idiotic rules of the Senate mean that 60 votes is needed in order to do a damned thing, in order to defeat a filibuster. And the Republicans have abused the filibuster to ridiculous degrees.

Democrats currently hold 57 seats, Republicans hold 41, and there are two independents. One of the independents in Bernie Sanders – he can be safely put in the Democrats side. So that gives 58 votes. That means that, even when Lieberman’s on board with them – and that’s not guaranteed on pretty much any issue any more – they still need to get at least one Republican vote to do anything.

And the Republicans have been very united in opposing virtually everything the Democrats have tried to do. So no, a bill doesn’t need to be bad for it to fail. It just requires that no Republicans break away. And re-election concerns pretty much ensure that won’t happen.

Spoo has it right on target. Good that someone sees what is really intentionally happening.

Outsource space programs? No … it’s redistribution of space technologies, because we have been trying to bring imperialism to space, and we must be stopped. Instead, have someone bring the space programs to the muslim countries. Maybe they can finally get missile technology right and bomb the shit out of us, giving Obama a nice BIG SMILE of gratitude.