Screw NASA

OK Elliot, here's your blog: (Edited with LOTS-o-Links!)

NASA is being run by idiots, and aside from being an embarassment (love triangle/assault anyone?), they are sorry excuses for scientists as well.

This story on NPR yesterday and this morning pretty much made me mad. I don't get it at all.

NASA apparently isn't sure that Global Warming is a problem that they should worry about helping to fix, because it might not be a "long term problem" and they aren't sure that people can really do much to change it.

Then NASA administrator Michael Griffen says this, "I guess I would ask which human beings — where and when — are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that's a rather arrogant position for people to take."

Um, hi, is draught, massive hurricanes, tsunamis and millions of potential refugees, melting arctic habitats, and the death of many endangered species (plant and animal) not enough to warrant taking action to stop the climate change? For pete's sake, female sharks are reproducing BY THEMSELVES! (6 years ago!!!) The marine biologist from the university in Belfast that is studying the sharks was quoted as saying:

"if self-impregnation was occurring in the wild because female sharks cannot find male partners amid rapidly declining shark populations, it would represent 'an evolutionary dead end that compromises the survival of the species.' He said he suspected this was 'already a problem in the real world', and noted the population of blue sharks off the west coast of Ireland had fallen by 90 percent in the past 12 years."

Alright, I really should get back to work. I'm playing secretary this week. It's really great.