Does Obama Have a Problem At NASA? 479
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timothy
from the hey-what's-a-few-trillion-in-deficit? dept.
from the hey-what's-a-few-trillion-in-deficit? dept.
MarkWhittington writes "Has NASA become a problem for the Obama transition? If one believes a recent story in the Orlando Sentinel, the transition team at NASA, led by former NASA Associate Administrator Lori Garver, is running into some bureaucratic obstruction." Specifically, according to this article NASA Administrator Michael Griffin made calls to aerospace industry executives asking them to stonewall if asked about benefits to be gained by canceling the current US efforts to revisit the moon; we mentioned last month that cutting Aries and Orion is apparently an idea under strong consideration by the Obama transition team.
Analogy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Analogy (Score:5, Funny)
theres a car analogy in there somewhere
Re:Who would have thought? (Score:1, Funny)
Did I miss a piece of history somewhere along the way where the Soviet Union was "beaten", rather than fizzled out?
Remember when Jimmy Carter grabbed his ankles and told every tin pot despot and the USSR to please be gentle? That was the "intellectual" solution to communism. By comparison Ronald Reagan beat the Soviet Union like it owed him money.
Bigger problems (Score:3, Funny)
Griffin's leadership (Score:4, Funny)
You're doing a heck of a job, Griffie!
Re:I hate to be an ass... (Score:5, Funny)
He can't do that. Peter Griffin has rockets that could be converted into makeshift missiles and used to bombard Washington.
Then Griffin would declare the US disbanded, replaced by a Galactic Empire with Griffin as Emperor.
I say give him the cash to keep him quiet. Better that than we all end up slaving in the Uranium mines on Pluto.
Re:Bigger problems (Score:3, Funny)
No, I don't think we'll be telling them that.
Re:I hate to be an ass... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who would have thought? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obstruction == Fired (Score:3, Funny)
They do? Would you like to tell us where, and why you think that?
I really hope you aren't referring to Belgium, which seems to either have no government or about three depending on which day of the week it is.
Re:I hate to be an ass... (Score:4, Funny)
While we're at it, it's Ares [wikipedia.org], not Aries [wikipedia.org].