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Originally Posted by tater
Look, saying that education, even worldwide is A goal of NASA is fine, just fine. Saying that it is an important goal or focus to reach out to medieval religious nuts is, well, insane.
How's the NASA reach out tot he Luddites coming? How about reaching out to the "moon landing was faked" whackos?
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Yeah, the conspiracy nuts. I don't think they can be changed. They've already made up their mind that the government pulled off the biggest hoax in human history. Reality escapes them I guess. To each their own strange beliefs.
Personally I would have liked to see another US moon shot per the previous administration's initiative. Unfortunately the current administration scrapped it and as such that may have set the space program back twenty or thirty years. I can gripe about that all day and still not feel any better for it. *poof*
I guess that the cultural differences between the tribal mentality of (much of) the Middle East and our own equally strange and bass-ackwards mentality are vast at this point. The way it looks to me, the Barack of Obama is trying to bridge those gaps in any way he can. More power to him because the road ahead looks to be long and treacherous. I think sometimes that our great-grandkids (on both sides) will still be dueling it out before the dust can settle. Somehow this great divide in ideologies we see today must be resolved with benefit to both parties in order for our species to progress. If it requires using the best and brightest in our nation to reach out on some level, so much the better.
...As long as it doesn't sap NASA's potential.
