Sunday, March 1, 2009

NASA - Not Another Screw-up Again!

Science: NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) had a big fuck-up last Tuesday when a satellite that was going to monitor global warming didn't quite make it off the planet. The top part of the rocket carrying the payload (aka - the satellite) failed to detach from the booster rocket (which pushes the rocket from launch, then falls off into the ocean). NASA has been bitching for years that Bush cut their funds so much they barely have enough to keep up with the advancing technology of Russia, China, India, which are all racing to have major space programs (China recently had their first manned orbit-and-return). Obama plans to land man on the moon again by 2020 but if NASA keeps looking like idiots, who knows where their funding might end up.

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