Yet another space shuttle mission completed.Hooray.
Am I the only one who thinks this is such a totally ridiculous waste of money?No kidding. We should have Orion ships exploring the asteroids by now ..
I shudder when I think of how much money has been invested -- wasted, in my opinion -- over the years. And for what? There is so much to be done here on Earth, how about spending some of that money here?Little known secret - every Shuttle flight they carry tons -- tons, in my opinion -- of greenbacks for deposit in the Luna City First Federal Bank.
I would like to see the government place a 10-year moratorium on NASA missions and anything space related. We could pay off the national debt, finally come up with a health program that could benefit all Americans, perhaps find cures for dreaded diseases, house the homeless, feed the hungry, educate the illiterate . . . who knows how much more. And we still would have spare change.And I am Marie, Queen of Romania. In other words, when pigs fly. How much of the Federal Budget do you think NASA gets? Over the next ten years it's projected to get .. $200 billlion. That's a lot of free lunches in Runnemede but the debt you want to pay down is .. $8.4 trillion.
Better cut out those free lunches then..
In the meantime, perhaps if we were to stop punching holes in the atmosphere, it may just slow down global warming.Because the holees we're punching in the crystal sphere holding in our atmosphere are like tearing holes in your attic insulation, yep.
Forty years ago, people laughed at my mother when she said every time they sent up a rocket, it rained for a month. Less than 2 hours after the shuttle went up recently, it started raining.They didn't teach logic at your high school, did they?
How about it America? Charity begins at home, and our home is this planet.Words fail me.
JOANN WARKALA Runnemede
Via.
