NASA in the House
NASA's everywhere! That's the message the agency is seeking to portray in a new presentation in its multimedia gallery called "NASA Home and City." The idea is that you can take a virtual tour of a home or town and see all the stuff we take for granted that is derived from space research. There's certainly a lot of information there I didn't know (space suit material eventually made its way into sneakers?), but I have to say it was a little unnerving to click on a graphic urging me to "Discover NASA" in the bedroom.
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It's the same propaganda that NASA has been using since the Apollo moon landings to justify the obscene amount of money being spent at a time when the people are wanting for decent schools, medicine, food and so many other luxuries. What people don't realize id that most of the products were under development anyway. NASA got to use them first because they had the money (our tax money) to pay for them.
What they don't mention is the billions of dollars spent for things that were fiscal failures and never will benefit most people. Things like the space shuttle that was develop for NASA so the military could have some for their use. It never was going to be cost effective as was originally promised.
A new moon landing program is another black hole where money pours into the aerospace industries and we get little in return. We have more important projects to spend money on like health care, energy conservation and to rebuild our nation's failing infrastructure.
Robert M. Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:10 PMThis was absolutley fascinating! Thank you!
Nancy Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:40 AMIn response to Robert M., I'd like to say that if he would like the 1/10th of a penny of his tax dollar that goes to NASA, I would be glad to refund it myself. I find it amazing that NASA accomplishes as much as it does considering the percentage of each tax dollar NASA actually receives from tax payers.
If you're looking for a black hole to throw your money into you might consider all of the pork barrel projects passed each year.
Virginia B. Posted Friday, February 29, 2008 1:36 PM