Now who's the tool. You know we landed a probe on mars? Do you know about the Hubble telescope?
They say China is 5-20 years from landing on the moon. I'm sure they'd like to stay at our moon base. You need to take your head out of Obama's ass and take a breath On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Judah McAuley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unlike you, he probably knows that we did that a long time ago and knows > that our advancement in the area has seriously stalled. We have stagnated or > fallen in measures of math and science at the K-12 levels. Our top tier > higher education institutions are still doing well, though don't have the > lead they used to. We were first on the moon, its true. But the space > shuttle program is being extended beyond its planned end-of-life period (we > sure hope nothing bad happens because of that) and our "next generation" > reusable launch vehicle is nowhere near done. The shuttles are now set to be > phased out in 2010 and we have nothing to replace it. The ISS will be > serviced by Russian vehicles in the meantime and they aren't aging well. We > run the risk of having to shelve the entire ISS program because of lack of > vehicles to service the mission. > > And that doesn't even begin to touch on Bush's State of the Union plan to > send a manned expedition to Mars. China is pushing ahead hard. They are > advancing. We are retreating. Yeah, we did a space walk 40 years ago. But we > are on the verge of not being able to do one now. Wouldn't you think that a > country with a 40 year head start would be doing better now? > > I'm hoping that your snarkiness is just ignorance and not partisan filth. If > you think our kids are keeping up with the rest of the world in math and > science then you've got some severe problems. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:271280 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
