NASA's mission statement

This isn't strictly related to E/C, but I had to mention: No surprise, I guess, with the present administration's anti-science stance on the environment and biology....NASA’s Goals Delete Mention of Home Planet - The New York Times? - registration required

but it sounds so much cooler with "protecting the home planet" without it the mission statement's kind of lame.stupid bushies.(another funny thing . . . in trying to spell lame, i hit the n button about a million times before I finally found the m button. so much for my fancy high school education)

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No surprise, I guess, with the present administration's contempt for the planet and all that inhabit it.

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"These monkeys are at once the ugliest and the most beautiful creatures on the planet./ And the monkeys don't want to be monkeys; they want to be something else./ But they're not."
-- Ernie Cline

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Is it really that sinister?I never though tat NASA had that much interest in 'Protecting' Earth anyway. thought they were far more focussed off world.in fact given the emissions from an average rocket launch i think it would be a hypocritical for them to pretend to be greenies?

According to UPI and more from this link

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

I read it like they wanna have orbiting spaceships with proton torpedos and laser blasters to protect our home planet from invading alien spacecraft. I didn't read it like they care about the environment.I think this change makes them totally less cool. I want spaceships with laser guns protecting our planet.

Ah.. but now that the president talks to God (Alien overlords), we're obviously in their good books so we don't need protecting.

actually, we've had presidents talking to the all mighty alien overlords ever since 1969. you know, when buzz and niel saw them on the moon spying on us. that was the year we made a pact with them so that we could destroy the russians. they (the aliens) provided us with Reagan.the unfortunate part of that pact was the devil's bargain. we got reagan to defeat the USSR, but we got a generation or two of politicians who don't care about the national debt and a failed economic policy.for any one else interested in the secrets our government's involved with, like warp jumping to the moon Baal, please contact the friendly neighborhood agency Conspiracy Discovery Institute, situated at MIB headquarters in LA, NY, or DC.

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All a man's knowledge comes from his experiences