Obama policy: Kill Aerospace

[Pushrod]

Originally Posted by gumbo

Man walking on the Moon......
Unless you were an employee of NASA or an employee of a contractor for NASA, walking on the frickin moon hasn't benefited one tax paying American citizen.

Is the cure for cancer on Mars?
Is there a cheaper alternative for fuel on Mars?
Is the answer to global warming on Mars?
Can we suck all of our pollutants from Earth and send it to Mars?

Satellites have been the only benefit from outer space travel.
The rest has been nothing but a giant black hole sucking money from the hard working, tax paying American citizen.

If we took the same brain power and money spent trying to find a new planet to live and used it to make our planet better.
The possibilities are endless.

What a waste!

What are you, brain dead? Why don't you google this topic? There are so many innovations and medical breakthroughs that have been made because of our space program you couldn't peruse them all in one day. Zero gravity medical and biological research continues to this day on the space station.
You sir, are an idiot!

Originally Posted by itsbob

And by delaying for 5 years (yeah right DELAY!!) how many THOUSANDS of people are you going to unemploy?

And then when they start back up again all these companies have lost their brain trusts.. their knowledge base will be gone, and they'll (we) will have to pay HUGE money to try to get them back. ALl materials manufactured to that point, after being delayed for 5 years, will be of no use, because who'll be paying for the environmentally controlled storage? It will all be out in someone's backlot and be totally useless IF they ever start it back up again.

And for what purpose? Your going to tell this Astrophysicist with 30 years of experience that he lost his job because you wanted to make sure little Sally could be schooled at the age of 4 because her parents are worthless pieces of crap that can't be bothered to teach their own kids the ABC's..

Oh please! Enough with the handwringing! How do you think these companies got their brain trusts the first time around? They moved people from other divisions and recruited the rest... the same thing they'll do once (and if) funding is turned back on.

I was a government contractor for 16 years, and contracts come and go, get funded then paused, cancelled then reinstated, time and time again. Great people leave to do other things, and get replaced by new great people.

[The Oyster Guy]

Originally Posted by Bruzilla

Oh please! Enough with the handwringing! How do you think these companies got their brain trusts the first time around? They moved people from other divisions and recruited the rest... the same thing they'll do once (and if) funding is turned back on.

I was a government contractor for 16 years, and contracts come and go, get funded then paused, cancelled then reinstated, time and time again. Great people leave to do other things, and get replaced by new great people.

Silly goose, it's nothing like that. Here's what really happens: when gov't contracts end, the terminated contractors are processed into Soylent Green and their souls go to hell. Therefore, it is our moral duty to save these unfortunate, highly educated and highly compensated souls by guaranteeing them continuing employment through government contracts, whether or not these programs provide a meaningful return on investment for the taxpayer. WE MUST SAVE OUR NERDS !!!

[drmatsci]

I'd rather save the 'nerds' than the crackheads and gutter trash that expects free handouts and didn't think finishing school was important.