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| Former NASA Chief: Muslim Outreach is ‘Perversion’ Of Nasa’s Mission |
| 2011-04-06 |
| H/T Gates of Vienna Michael Griffin, who headed NASA during the last four years of the Bush administration, says the space agency’s new goal to improve relations with the Islamic world and boost Muslim self-esteem is a “perversion” of NASA’s original mission to explore space. “NASA was chartered by the 1958 Space Act to develop the arts and sciences of flight in the atmosphere and in space and to go where those technologies will allow us to go,” Griffin said in an interview Tuesday. “That’s what NASA does for the country. It is a perversion of NASA’s purpose to conduct activities in order to make the Muslim world feel good about its contributions to science and mathematics.” Whatever these might be |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #14 the sooner we say FUCK the muslims , the better #11 The world has been saying that since 666 A.D. (that would be for about 1500 years). |
| Posted by: Jomomp Cheregum8707 2011-04-06 23:37 |
| #13 Why are so many people obsessed with claiming that the Moslem world inventing this or that? The equal symbol (=) was first used by Welshman Robert Recorde in 1557. NOT A MOSLEM. Diophantus was the father of the method of algebraic solutions. NOT A MOSLEM. |
| Posted by: Shereter Poodle9774 2011-04-06 23:20 |
| #12 Guys. Guys. You forget figuring out how to saddle a camel. Sneer at that, why don't you. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2011-04-06 22:54 |
| #11 the sooner we say FUCK the muslims , the better |
| Posted by: 746 2011-04-06 22:22 |
| #10 newc, You are on the right track. It was the = sign. Algebra and calculus don't make much sense without the diametric logic of the = sign. A worthwhile contributions by anyone's standards. Once in a while even a loser gets lucky. |
| Posted by: Gomez Omaimble4042 2011-04-06 21:22 |
| #9 I thought you weren't allowed to speak for God? God has made it abundently clear what can and cannot be done, what will or will not happen if, you do or do not do. |
| Posted by: Jeremiah Omeasing7873 2011-04-06 20:54 |
| #8 > Vote democrat the next election and the Right Hand of God will fall on this country. I thought you weren't allowed to speak for God? Anyway regardless of that the much more powerful Invisible hand of Adam Smith hand WILL fall on the country if either of your parties don't stop the states metastasis occurring the expense of reciprocal wealth creation. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-04-06 19:51 |
| #7 Mind beats computer (Google search), AlanC. But I get some points for the Koran. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-04-06 17:25 |
| #6 The only accomplishment the moslem world has made is the zero Nope. And they didn't write the Koran, either. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-04-06 17:19 |
| #5 newc, you are wrong. The zero was "invented" by the Hindus and originally took the form of a dot. Reference "Mathematics for the Million" by Hogben. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2011-04-06 17:16 |
| #4 1. Moslem contribution to science and mathematics is a lie. If anything, it is a detractor thereof. The only accomplishment the moslem world has made is the zero - everything else was stolen from the europeons. 2. How sad that a government agency that was able to go to the moon now must quabble with an otherwise useless task of making moslems "feel better" How trite. 3. Vote democrat the next election and the Right Hand of God will fall on this country. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-04-06 17:05 |
| #3 It's too bad he screwed up so badly with the Goddamn Shaft, though, he could speak with more authority on the subject if he'd actually done anything during his tenure to lower launch costs. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-04-06 16:00 |
| #2 And a AGW skeptic. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-04-06 15:03 |
| #1 Yeah, but he is a ewvil wepubwican! /liberal |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-04-06 14:57 |