Wot - no rockets!

• Bob Frost

  • Location: Deal
  10 July 2010     17:4459827
  #1      
  Charles Bolden, a retired United States Marines Corps major-general and former astronaut, said in an interview with al-Jazeera that Nasa was not only a space exploration agency but also an "Earth improvement agency".
  
  Mr Bolden said: "When I became the Nasa administrator, he [Mr Obama] charged me with three things.
  
  "One, he wanted me to help reinspire children to want to get into science and math;
  
  he wanted me to expand our international relationships;
  
  and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me 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, math, and engineering."
  
  
  
  I note that there's no mention of any actual Space Exploration, which silly old me thought was the sort of stuff that NASA did. In the meantime it's a touchy feely approach to the Muslim world who have managed half of damn all in science development in the past 800 years. Surely the best thing is to do what we do in schools and award them a GNVQ in 'science studies'?
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  10 July 2010     17:4659828
  #2      
  you can be such a cynic at times bob, in fact all the time.
  
  loved that bit about the gnvc, i remember when the nvq started out, after a year potential employers saw it as meaning no very qualified.
• Guest 690

  • Registered: 10 Oct 2009
  • Posts: 4,150
  10 July 2010     18:5159838
  #3      
  Well, bang go my hopes of further space exploration. Thanks for that Bob. I shall now wait till a nice sized asteroid wack`s Obama`s policy for six!
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• Bob Frost

  • Location: Deal
  11 July 2010     02:4759892
  #4      
  Colin,
  
  Oh ye of so little FAITH. Islamic is the way forward. PBUH. (Unless you are female in which your limited visibility might be a problem?)
  
  I've already go an astrolabe (which I've made myself), a number system (decimal place) borrowed from the Indians and gunpowder (from China).
  
  This mother is going to be sand and camel powered!
• Guest 690

  • Registered: 10 Oct 2009
  • Posts: 4,150
  11 July 2010     07:4959909
  #5      
  I`m still digesting that lot Bob.
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• Sid Perkins

  • Location: Dover
  11 July 2010     10:4159934
  #6      
  One hump or two Bob?