Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Why I Hate NASA

Why does NASA bend the walls of Space/Time with their sucktasticness? I'll tell you why, they have no mision. Back in the trippy 60's they had a purpose. Beat the Russians to the moon or die trying. And that was good, a little obsessive, but good. The American people supported NASA back them days. They were heroes even, combating the cosmonauts in single combat with rockets and monkeys in shinny pajamas.
But after they trotted on the Moon five times whatt then. Nothing. NASA did absolutely nothing of any great interest for fifteen years. The only real exploration that NASA tried out between the Apollo and Space Shuttle was freaken Sky Lab, the biggest do’h move in the history, it crashed in the Australian outback. And after NASA finally got the Space Shuttle off the ground, which was in no way needed since the Saturn V series had a flawless record and was a hell of alot cheaper, in the eighties it exploded a mile up because of gross negligence on the part of their tired old administration staff. Then they fixed that problem with the shuttle, but then a shuttle launch became so routine, and generally pointless that not even the Return to Flight mission got any coverage by any media source. Not to mention the fact our heroic astronauts are starting to go crackers and plan to kill their lover’s lover while wearing a wig.
Here we are at least 15 years from the returning to the moon, over 30 years away from Mars, the Bernel Spheres and O'Neil Cylinders are at least hundred years away, the International Space Station has gone way over budget, way over deadline, and worst of all no one cares. So few in the general public gives a damn about space anymore since it seems so hopeless to put our faith in the bubbling fools at NASA. The only real hope for continued space exploration seems to lie in the hands of privet enterprise with Burt Rutan and Virgin Galactic with there little SS1, that can make it too space, and unlike the shuttle, not blow up.
So here we are in 2007 and NASA has no goal, no aspirations, and no support. And we who dream of space must put our hopes no longer in the inflexible government, but in a bunch of loonies out in the Californian desert with a dream, some money, and a lot of free time.

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