NASA: Deaf, Dumb and Blind
NASA has been changing for a long time and will continue to change till it is dead. Then it will see brighter days as a reorganized entity. I am very curious to see what will happen to NASA down the years. Will they continue to be the strong force that brought glory to America during the moon-landing Apollo years? Will they enable American technology to take us to Mars by 2025, as President Bush promised? Or will they keep on struggling to survive in this American utopia of budget cuts and stifled development due to malformed beliefs?
Many people no longer believe that it is important to go to space anymore nowadays. So we spend hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer (our) money to occupy a couple countries in the name of self-defense. Remember that $4,000 worth of taxes you paid? Since our federal budget is maybe 10 trillion dollars, 500 billion dollars is maybe a good number to represent the cost of our military needs ever since 9-11. That's 5% of your taxes, which translates to 200 dollars, worth maybe 1-3 days of wages. That'll buy the Army a lot of bullets.
That's all you are worth to the government a couple boxes of ammunition, because the Navy can't really buy much with $200. To finance a rifle, the government has to tax maybe three of you. Even much more for those F-35 jets, while we are fighting like dogs in Iraq? When the time comes to fight Iran, even more of your money will go to pay for the new bunker-busting nukes currently under development. By then, more than a trillion dollars would have been spent. $1,000,000,000,000. On conquest.
Conquering Space sounds a helluva lot better! If NASA had a trillion dollars, we would very much be on our way to Mars! I would LOVE to see a Martian return on my $200 investment! Instead, we'll probably eat some radioactive dirt in a return of our $200 investment if we continue our Middle Eastern adventures of violence.
Wow, we humans are powerful, ain't we? We got the power to both cure our ailing space program, which's deathly deaf, dumb and blind, and the Earth of its cancers with nuclear weapons tonight (but not deafness) ! In that process will fruit a lot of revolutionary contributions to anti-aging, communications, metallurgy, energy, the list goes on and on. A battle with China to see who reaches Mars first sounds a lot more fun than watching mushroom clouds rise over Tel Aviv and Tehran. The Chinese are already on their way to the moon! Taikonauts will be walking around on the lunar surface in the next decade. Where will we Americans be? Nuked roast? I most certainly hope not!
By the way, I just realized that the cure for deafness the hearing people have been looking for all along has been right under their eyes! It's sign language. It cures us of our disability and makes us normal. It gives us the power to smash out of the glass ceiling, er, fortress that we're stuck in! Knowing how to sign for hearing people can be very useful. Astronaut Mike Mullane says that the military has a hand-signal system in the case of radio communications blackouts. Army snipers most certainly use gestures to stay in stealth mode while on the hot trail. Since there are sometimes failures in radio communications, an astronaut would be served very well if he or she knew sign language while doing a spacewalk. In an emergency, communications can be established via sign language. Spacewalking astronauts are at the mercy of computers, if they fail, they are closed in their own claustrophic universe, unable to communicate to the outer world, er, space. Sign language gives them (us) that transcendental ability.
Why don't we encourage Iran to convert their Shahab-3 missiles to launch satellites? Israel would most certainly help them. The Israelis are one of the best when it comes to rockets, I bet they could build a shuttle and go to space if they weren't so afraid of all the Muslims threatening their very existence. All that money spent to protect their 400 nuclear bombs could finance a united Israeli-Palestinian space program. I bet that Dr. Ahmadinejad would most certainly agree to scrap his nuke program and sign up for that program! He is a civil engineer, so the scientist in him could help lead him to peace, rather than his religious side, which calls for the Apocalypse to commence.
I tell you, the day NASA allows deaf astronauts, I'll rejoice like it's the second coming of Christ! That'll a sign of a healthy NASA (and world)!
Where has all the excitement gone? It used to be sooo exciting whenever a space shuttle would lift off. Does anybody know that there's gonna be a shuttle launch next month? Or even that the Russians has a shuttle of their own that flew only one unmanned mission? If this was the 1960's, our astronauts would be more famous than the American Idol contestants! How about a new reality show, an astronaut corps show? That would be so cool!
How sad that Buran, the Russian shuttle, flew only once. I think it was a beautiful clone of our shuttle!
source of photo
Many people no longer believe that it is important to go to space anymore nowadays. So we spend hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer (our) money to occupy a couple countries in the name of self-defense. Remember that $4,000 worth of taxes you paid? Since our federal budget is maybe 10 trillion dollars, 500 billion dollars is maybe a good number to represent the cost of our military needs ever since 9-11. That's 5% of your taxes, which translates to 200 dollars, worth maybe 1-3 days of wages. That'll buy the Army a lot of bullets.
That's all you are worth to the government a couple boxes of ammunition, because the Navy can't really buy much with $200. To finance a rifle, the government has to tax maybe three of you. Even much more for those F-35 jets, while we are fighting like dogs in Iraq? When the time comes to fight Iran, even more of your money will go to pay for the new bunker-busting nukes currently under development. By then, more than a trillion dollars would have been spent. $1,000,000,000,000. On conquest.
Conquering Space sounds a helluva lot better! If NASA had a trillion dollars, we would very much be on our way to Mars! I would LOVE to see a Martian return on my $200 investment! Instead, we'll probably eat some radioactive dirt in a return of our $200 investment if we continue our Middle Eastern adventures of violence.
Wow, we humans are powerful, ain't we? We got the power to both cure our ailing space program, which's deathly deaf, dumb and blind, and the Earth of its cancers with nuclear weapons tonight (but not deafness) ! In that process will fruit a lot of revolutionary contributions to anti-aging, communications, metallurgy, energy, the list goes on and on. A battle with China to see who reaches Mars first sounds a lot more fun than watching mushroom clouds rise over Tel Aviv and Tehran. The Chinese are already on their way to the moon! Taikonauts will be walking around on the lunar surface in the next decade. Where will we Americans be? Nuked roast? I most certainly hope not!
By the way, I just realized that the cure for deafness the hearing people have been looking for all along has been right under their eyes! It's sign language. It cures us of our disability and makes us normal. It gives us the power to smash out of the glass ceiling, er, fortress that we're stuck in! Knowing how to sign for hearing people can be very useful. Astronaut Mike Mullane says that the military has a hand-signal system in the case of radio communications blackouts. Army snipers most certainly use gestures to stay in stealth mode while on the hot trail. Since there are sometimes failures in radio communications, an astronaut would be served very well if he or she knew sign language while doing a spacewalk. In an emergency, communications can be established via sign language. Spacewalking astronauts are at the mercy of computers, if they fail, they are closed in their own claustrophic universe, unable to communicate to the outer world, er, space. Sign language gives them (us) that transcendental ability.
Why don't we encourage Iran to convert their Shahab-3 missiles to launch satellites? Israel would most certainly help them. The Israelis are one of the best when it comes to rockets, I bet they could build a shuttle and go to space if they weren't so afraid of all the Muslims threatening their very existence. All that money spent to protect their 400 nuclear bombs could finance a united Israeli-Palestinian space program. I bet that Dr. Ahmadinejad would most certainly agree to scrap his nuke program and sign up for that program! He is a civil engineer, so the scientist in him could help lead him to peace, rather than his religious side, which calls for the Apocalypse to commence.
I tell you, the day NASA allows deaf astronauts, I'll rejoice like it's the second coming of Christ! That'll a sign of a healthy NASA (and world)!
Where has all the excitement gone? It used to be sooo exciting whenever a space shuttle would lift off. Does anybody know that there's gonna be a shuttle launch next month? Or even that the Russians has a shuttle of their own that flew only one unmanned mission? If this was the 1960's, our astronauts would be more famous than the American Idol contestants! How about a new reality show, an astronaut corps show? That would be so cool!
How sad that Buran, the Russian shuttle, flew only once. I think it was a beautiful clone of our shuttle!
source of photo
1 Comments:
Have just started to read your blog. Incredible stuff, Jason, especially this entry! Great idea about the middle east needing to invest in space programs instead of warmongering. Loved the idea about sign language's use in space! Heh heh. It's one of the things I love about sign language - we can certainly hold conversations even if a wall of soundproofing glass is between us.
Hmm. Before entering Gallaudet in 1998, I got laughed at by an army recruit for asking to join the army. How very kind of the TTY relay operator to relay the laugh, though. Geesh. So, I can really understand wanting to change the system to allow for Deaf participation.. especially in these "sensitive" parts of the government.
Ergo, I have written the NASA about allowing for Deaf astronanuts. They select schoolteachers, why not Deaf schoolteachers? Deaf scientists? Deaf engineers?
I know this is probably not the same.. but what about being space tourists, though? Have you heard that we would be allowed to participate in space tourism if we forked out a million dollars?
From one space fan to another.
Liza
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