So I found this one originally when I traveled to Investor’s Business Daily. All I could think in the immediate aftermath was this. Exactly how far into the crapper does the current Administration wish to sink the once proud agency? The answer must be pretty God Damned far, since institutionalized madness seems to be the rule there, and not the exception.
We should have known that something was up when Barack Obama decided to buck the trend of every single President who had a NASA in his Administration prior, and not appoint his Vice President to head the agency. Not that Joe Biden would have been good at the job mind you, but it shows that the Bamster had something else in mind. Something else is indeed what it has turned into.
You can not make this stuff up, it’s truly too bizarre. From the IBD article linked to above:
As odd as this report is, it seems less strange when we consider that just four years ago President Obama told NASA administrator Charles Bolden, in Bolden’s words, that “perhaps (his) foremost” priority should be “to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.”
Recently, NASA has done little beyond publishing papers that tow the leftist line. It’s gotten so bad at the former space agency that last week, a group of NASA rocket scientists who were not the politically connected bureaucrats chosen to manage the decline, banded together and told us all that this global warming nonsense was indeed a hoax, and that we shouldn’t take anything said by the Science Director, James Hansen, seriously, should he venture into the field of science. You may think that it really couldn’t go down from there, and you’d be wrong.
This my friends, is what the IBD article pointed me to. Putting aside for just one moment that this recreation of the Communist Manifesto penned by Karl Marx combined with the C.W. Mills Power Elite Theory, and sprinkled with some Thomas Hobbs on the side has not one thing at all to do with space or the exploration of space, one might possess just the slightest amount of curiosity as to the validity of the underlying study that has predicted the end of human existence on our planet within just a few years. Who is the author, Safa Motesharrei, and what exactly are his qualifications to make such an horrific prediction, and then have that prediction taken so seriously by supposedly educated men?
Safa Motesharrei, as it turns out is an electrical engineer, with a masters of some kind in mathematics, and a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland. He wrote this thesis while working for SESYNC, a lefty activist organization predisposed to stop all fracing, the Keystone XL Pipeline, GMO Farming, and every other lunatic left environmental position which has plagued free societies for the past six decades. My bet, they had a lot to do with incandescent light bulbs being declared verboten. I’m not certain here, and I’m only spit balling, but I’d be willing to go out on a limb and suggest that maybe the conclusion for the apocalypse prediction might have been drawn prior to any actual research having taken place.
I’m certain that Mr. Motesharrei is a fine engineer and mathematician, but he is decidedly not an economist, or an historian. NASA, by putting their name and reputation behind this crap has managed to lower their stature to the level somewhere decidedly south of cocktail party joke. I wouldn’t blame the Russians one bit if they refused to continue giving our suddenly hitch hiking astronauts rides to the International Space Station. Based on baloney like this, it’s obvious that they’ll not be doing any actual science up there anyhow.
Cross Posted from Musings of a Mad Conservative.
Tags: Investor's Business Daily, NASA
