In the News....
OK creative writing will transform for a while to what do you think... a reflection on whats in the news, or interesting facts or something of that sort...
So Yesterday It was announced a grand new plan for NASA. Man will return to the moon by 2015, living there by 2020, robots probing the surface by 2008. It sounds great and all. But there are a whole lot of shaking that is gonna have to go on. Right now NASA budget is roughly 16 Billion Dollars. (While you hold your chest and gasp... well this is only 1/2 of 1% of the US Budget... (The Deparment of Defense obtains over 400 Billion Every year!)). It has been stated that the Shuttle will keep flying to complete the Space Station by 2010. The Station and Shuttle use about 6 Billion a year of the budget.
So now to hit on what is impossible....
-11 Billion is to be redirected in NASA... this means that many many projects will come to an end. These are probably projects people have spent there life on cut to an end.
-1 Billion is to be added to NASA budget in 5 years. OK the average cheap worker cost 100,000. At 2 Milllion a year with 10 centers, this turns out to be 20 new people at each (Basically to see if this can be done (on paper))
-A new ship is to fly to the station and to the moon... this doesnt make sense. This is two differnt jobs to be done... Usually a do everything tool is never good as the real deal.
Anyways... just a few thoughts. I rambled to much.... but now off to do real work that is at hand.
Feel free to share your thoughts.... a new differnt kind of creative writing.
Comments
Man, don't you think there are more important issues that the states should be dealing with? What's so important about the moon right now that they're willing to spend billions of dollars for. It's pretty crazy.
Posted by: lea | January 15, 2004 11:47 AM
Fight the Power
Posted by: case | January 15, 2004 12:21 PM
Well this brings me back to what i was reading about earlier. Right now its illegal to claim celestial bodies for countries, by international mandate no less. But that won't always be that way. This is really reminding of the European rush to "explore" the America's. The first country in space with stations and bases and what not will most likely be the country considered to be dominant. Think back to the Space Race, countries have been fighting over space for quite some time, and this particular manifestation of it isn't very different than the race to be the first on the moon. Sure ask some official why we're going to the moon, and he'll show you countless experiments, that simply MUST be done in low or zero gravity, but the simple truth of the matter is that no one's nationalism will suffer having another country beat theirs in colonizing yet another "new frontier". Call it technological progress, or age old one upmanship, either way your tax dollars will fund it, and you have no say in it. And they call this democracy. . .HA!! And that's my spiel on the matter.
Posted by: Mindless Intelligence | January 15, 2004 01:06 PM
This conversation came up in service yesterday and it was discussed that they may claim this is for the good of science but ultimately its for more power and control. Interesting, because they can't even solve small concerns or "direct their step"!
Notice this statement by Senator Johnson before of course he was President ("Your will be done of earth", 1958)
"There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position - the position of total control over earth lies somewhere out in space. Whoever gains that ultimate position gains control, total control, over the earth, for purposes of tyranny or for the service of freedom"
The end can't be too much longer...
Posted by: Jillian | January 15, 2004 01:18 PM
Good point Jill. By the way, HI!
Posted by: Mindless Intelligence | January 15, 2004 03:30 PM