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Originally posted by Kitsune
Didn't Bush Sr. make this same promise during his term?
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Too many presidents want to do what Kennedy did. Reagan wanted the hypersonic airplane and star wars. Now called myths. George Sr proposed missions to the moon. In each case, that president forgot to do what Kennedy did. First learn facts. Too many leaders want the 'big picture' - facts be damned (ie Iraq). So they find themselves an Oliver North or Edward Teller - and that constitutes an intelligent inquiry.
Yes, George Sr also made the same promise. Then real costs were discovered. At George Jr's $400 billion price tag (same price as liberating Iraqis), instead, estimate about $4 trillion. That in part because much technology needed is not being developed or is not found in America (such as rocket technology) - since capturing Saddam and building a military larger than the entire world combined is more important ... advances mankind [cough]. Also called testosterone based thinking. Science be damned.
In the meantime, Hubble Space Telescope will be scrapped to put men on the moon. Hubble was scheduled for upgrade next year. Most all the work having been done or being finished on earth. That would have made Hubble good for another 10 years. But instead, it is more important to think with emotion (as an MBA) rather than use logic (as science demands). Hubble is to be destroyed because an MBA president has emotional goals - science and logic be damned.
We cannot even get a space station working. Same management is so technically incompetant as to even stifle engineers who suspected Columbia was in danger. At $8billion, ISS still does not do any real science - and, now, is not even scheduled to do irrelevant science for many years. ISS now is operating without knowing even its air quality - which is also leaking at what may be a dangerous rate. Astronauts now burning an emergency oxygen generating candle every day because of air problems in ISS. All this money because science - such as the super collider - is not glorious enough for politicians who refuse to think as Kennedy did.
Kennedy first learned facts before making a decision. A complete reverse of what George Jr does. Kennedy spent major time interviewing virtually every relevant person before making his declaration. Decisions based upon existing realities? Such is not necessary to an MBA - such as George Jr. His mission to the moon is based first upon politics - not upon science and logic.
Hubble is dead. Long live Hubble. Assasinated by an MBA president who even lies about Iraq. His 'men on the moon' nonsense only demonstrates a thought process that, like an MBA, need only see a spread sheet.
No wonder he killed the Oslo Accords as predicated by Euroean foreign ministers. Oslo Accords were Clinton. Therefore they too must have been wrong. Realities and facts being irrelevant. MBA president knows everything. We realists just get in the way. The man on moon mission is silly when it undermines good and much less expensive science - such as Hubble.