Pirate's Cove

Of course, this does beg the question “what actual space program is NASA talking about?”, since the Obama mega-budget is doing away with most space related mission, and NASA is planning on paying commercial vendors to take them to space, as we have no replacement for the space shuttles (not Obama’s fault), have none in the works which would be deployable, are down to the last few missions, and the mission seems to be changing to be more about globull warming hysteria. Anyhow

NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said Tuesday that President Barack Obama has asked him to “find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries” as the White House pushes the space agency to become a tool of international diplomacy.

“In addition to the nations that most of you usually hear about when you think about the International Space Station, we now have expanded our efforts to reach out to non-traditional partners,” said Bolden, speaking to a lecture hall of young engineering students.

Specifically, he talked about connecting with countries that do not have an established space program and helping them conduct science missions. He mentioned new opportunities with Indonesia, including an educational program that examines global climate change.

Right. Good move. Let’s reach out to countries that often tend to live in the 15th Century, and whose view of science is how to better use the technology that Western countries create in order to kill Westerners.

I mean, think about it. Iran has been attempting to build nuclear weapons since 1979, and still haven’t done it, even with all the technology that they could certainly purchase on the black market. The United States, once we put our minds to it, took a small project that had been sitting around since 1939, and, in three years, developed, built, and exploded not one, but two nuclear weapons. Muslim countries would be lucky to create a better yo yo.