| Whatever happened to American ingenuity and the | | | | weak leaders, and the politically correct, the same |
| spirit of taking risks? Yes, I'm talking about NASA and | | | | people who claim to be intellectuals, those left-leaning |
| the global space race. Why is it that we have | | | | liberal-socialists, they are so busy trying to prevent |
| become so politically correct, so bureaucratic, and so | | | | risk, that they have made our society sterile, and |
| overly safety conscious that we won't even take a | | | | they continually make our society and civilization |
| risk, even when it's a reasonable risk? What | | | | weak. I have news for anyone out there reading this |
| happened to America, what's wrong with everyone, | | | | article, the United States of America is not weak, our |
| why did everyone stop pushing the envelope? This is | | | | ancestors built this great country, and we are the |
| simply crazy. | | | | greatest nation in the history of mankind, and I ask; |
| Not long ago, there was a USA Today | | | | what is the problem here? |
| Article-Interview with Mike Griffin, which was titled; | | | | There is absolutely no excuse that the United States |
| "NASA Administrator Says Space Shuttle Program | | | | of America does not have a lunar colony, a Martian |
| was a Mistake" and I must say it was interesting | | | | colony, and human exploring out to the edge of our |
| article, but I'm still trying to figure out why the space | | | | solar system by now - absolutely, no excuse. In fact |
| shuttle program was a mistake? Because it costs too | | | | with all the great technology we have, all the new |
| much, everything costs a lot, and when I read the | | | | material science, and propulsion innovations, I'm |
| article, the title did not do the article justice, because | | | | amazed that we have not figured out how to |
| what the article said was that Mike Griffin made the | | | | transverse time, travel by wormholes, assimilate |
| statement; "My opinion is that the shuttle was a | | | | matter in other locations, and disrupt gravity waves |
| design which was extremely aggressive and just | | | | to save fuel for space launches. |
| barely possible." | | | | The reason we don't have these things now, is not |
| Recently, I was watching an MIT video online, and | | | | because we don't have the intellect to get there, it is |
| the MIT professor made a comment about that USA | | | | because we have become weak, lazy, politically |
| Today article, very similar to my comments above, in | | | | correct, bureaucratic, and quite frankly we have |
| fact he had the same take on it, and I believe his | | | | become fat, dumb, and happy. Some of this is |
| points are absolutely correct. In fact the MIT | | | | because of our own success, and the rest is because |
| professor notes that all space programs are or | | | | we have weak leadership with no vision, no plan, |
| appear to be extremely aggressive and just barely | | | | drowning in political correctness, while they vote |
| possible and the professor in the video stated: "so | | | | present. And that's exactly where we will stay, |
| too was Apollo," and he's right. Didn't President | | | | because the future is for the bold, the strong, and |
| Kennedy say "we choose to do these things, not | | | | those who choose to go beyond. The future of |
| because they are easy, but because they are hard," | | | | humankind awaits, there is a whole new world waiting |
| when he spoke about America's vision to put a man | | | | for us, if we dare to take it. |
| on the moon. | | | | It's time to start thinking like Americans again, be |
| Today, what do we have we have? Weak politicians, | | | | aggressive, push the limits, and never give up. |