Obama's Evolving Stance On NASA

mknewman writes "The Houston Chronicle is reporting a change in Obama's stance on NASA, saying his position on space exploration continued to evolve Sunday as the Illinois Democrat endorsed a congressional plan to add $2 billion to NASA's budget and agreed to back at least one more space shuttle mission."

Here' an Idea

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's Put our Astronauts in Shuttles that don't use fuel and go green!

CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!

Digg

[Anonymous Coward]

Obama news on the frontpage - has somebody done a /. theme for Digg?

Evolution?

[Junior J. Junior III]

Is Obama's stance really evolving? I think it's clear that his policy on NASA is a result of intelligent design.

Re:Evolving?

[stewbacca]

Evolving stance? Is that the PC version of flip flopping.

This is slashdot, so it's the Linux version of flip-flopping.

Re:Let's end the ruse

[ArcherB]

I'm voting Libertarian when I can and then voting against the incumbent - regardless of what party he belongs to.

If you vote Libertarian, aren't you already voting against the incumbent?

Re:Obama Should Love NASA

[Anonymous Coward]

dumbass, you wouldn't know a socialist radical if one came up and kicked you in the nuts

Re:Obama Should Love NASA

[JoeZeppy]

This is obviously what a tax system is supposed to do. There are quite a few economists who would care to differ with that statement. A progressive tax (and welfare) system such as the one we have provides a degree of disincentive against earning more money, because the more money you earn, the greater percentage of it you pay to the government. In some places, such as France, it's so bad that for many people, it's more profitable to live off welfare than to work. While the main purpose of taxes is to fund government, it should also be structured so as to encourage people to become more productive and contribute more to the economy. Unbalancing the tax system beyond its current state will do precisely the opposite.

Yes, I'm sure if Bill Gates had any idea how much money he'd end up making I'm sure he'd have just said "fuck it" and taken a job at McDonalds. Poor bastard.

Re:Here' an Idea

[Sponge Bath]

The exhaust of the solid rocket boosters is not... What's your point?

That we can clean up Washington in a environmentally sound way by
putting politicians under the main engines?

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Re:Iraq vs. Going to the moon.

[AP31R0N]

Yeah, cause going to the moon 16 times is way more important that forming two new democracies in the middle east, or overthrowing brutally repressive regimes, one of which invaded two neighbors and gave the UN the finger for 12 years and the other harbored Al Queda.

Quick, mod me troll/flamebait so no one can read this!

Re:However...

[ralf1]

So I think this China to the moon thing deserves more scrutiny. The massive coordination of huge numbers of people at the Olympic opening ceremonies and the cultural embeddedness of high end acrobatics in China gives rise to the following possibility. Average distance to the moon is about 384000 KM or 384000000 meters. The average height of a Chinese person (per wikipedia) is about 1.6 M (5'2"). A rough estimation gives us a floor to shoulder height of about 1.3 M. Therefore 277,333,333 Chinese people standing on each other shoulders could reach the moon. Its just a matter of time....

Re:Russia/USA is not a real problem. Yet.

[FauxPasIII]

> Why are we (US) so up in arms over Russia messing with Georgia?

We here in the US do _not tolerate_ a nation which invades and occupies another sovereign nation.