I don’t mean this in a bad way, of course! Societal concerns aside… I just hope that as memory becomes cheaper, the possibility of uploading our brains onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It’s a fantasy that I dream about almost every day.

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I think this article convinced me that NASA is yet another government agency, like the IRS, the DEA, the CIA, Medicare and Social Security, that we could do without.

http://www.hobbyspace.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=18373

Do you think maybe we actually lost the cold war? Many Americans still believe in the efficacy of bureaucracy.

This is very good news.

What about all those “private industry” science and engineering contractors that work for NASA? How do they fit in with your perception of NASA, its personnel and programs?

This post was mentioned on Twitter by gforb: Obama, Progress, and the Space Program – First Things (blog) http://bit.ly/bC8hfv…

I have disagreed and on rare occasions agreed, with much of what President Obama and his Administration

has done. Since not only taking the steering wheel of our nation, but supposedly humanity and it’s species, via the Nobel Peace Prize.

But I am a sad and repulsed American here today. When I see that the banks and special interest can get Trillions in Tax Payer money. Comprised of human blood, sweat, and tears. Yet, we as a nation, supposedly a highly educated one, cant muster up $5 billion a year to give NASA?

To explore sending a Human once again returning or manning a permanent space station on the Moons surface.

If not for the sake of a demonstration of our advancements as a species, that will possibly boost morale across the nation. And while taking prudent measures to ensure our survival of our species in the event of catashophy, be it made made or natural caused. Than to at least not acknowledge the fact, it is our specie’s next frontier in our evolving to a higher living and functioning intelligence species. Preferably
with the best of our collective gene pool. It’s called “seeding the STARS” and it is where our exponential advancements in technology both medical in life longevity/expectancy and the creation and morph between biological and machine.

I always reference a great scene in the movie Armageddon with Billy Bob Thornton as the NASA space

director. And the President asking him “Why didn’t we see this asteroid comming Dan?…Our Earth Collision Budget only allows $2 billion dollars Mr. President….that covers about 3% of the sky sir..with all do respect…it’s a BIG ASS SKY sir”….lol

And to give reason that Govt funding is not needed nor a budget allotment this year. Because private corporation profit seeking and the creation or enterprise for space tourism will drive the exploration is just preposterous at present time. Don’t get me wrong, I am a believer in that in the longer picture. A big
fan of Sir Richard Branson and his visions there. But in it’s infancy(now) we have many things orbiting around our planet at any giving time that are detrimental to not only our national security, but our way of daily life, that if interrupted could fall back to creating National security issues. Many satellites,
weather, cell phone, TV, spy, etc. We dont want people looking for cheap ways to get things in orbit and

risking them screwing things up. So to say I feel the NASA Space Program be militarized is yes!

On another note…GOOGLE once had a contest offer to anyone who could launch an object(unmanned) from earth

to the moons surface and drive it like 10 feet remotely from Earth would get like $5o million bucks.
I wrote a blog the day entitled ” Google going to the moon!….Sell the stock now”….because going to the moon is the all time penny stock pumper dumper scammer phrase….lol…..GOOG was trading $700 then Dec 2007.

I think the Govt should just come out and say we have had manned stations on the dark side of the moon for the last 20 years. And we feel the human race is intellectual enough to not only appreciate it. but understanding of the need to be kept secret up till this point. Where now it serves the greater good to be

known and developed by the world together in efforts…I would be like coooool ohhhhhhh!….How do I get a job application there? It would inspire generations and the averice corporations and bottom lines will take

it from there I tell ya!…Children will have something to reach for once again in this country. They say

“shoot for the sky, cause if ya miss, you’ll land among the STARS”…So appropriate…yes?

Steve Goff
Margate, NJ
January 29, 2010