Genesis Flap
OK, I didn’t even like the concept of the re-entry of Genesis to Earth. I pondered too many things that could go wrong. Things like someone sneezing at an inopportune moment and missing the satellite. Things like bad weather. Things like helicopter mechanical failures. What I didn’t ponder was even dumber than some of the examples I used:
What else can I say? We lose a mission to Mars because someone forgets to convert meters to feet, and now this.
Meanwhile, SpaceShipOne is planning it’s fourth trip to outer space in the time it has taken NASA to revamp one shuttle.
I am really coming to the conclusion NASA needs to be dismantled at this time and all that funding be given out as competitve grants to private industry with very specific objectives and goals attached to each grant.
Anyone with me on that?
Tags: Technology
[...] Secondly, noted astronomers and the like have immediately debunked the claim that this is a Martian by asserting that the image is a rock cropping a few feet from the Rover. In other words, it’s too small to be much of a living thing. And, since NASA has been unable to find any semblence of life, even microbial, they must be right huh? [...]