A Different Take on NASA’s New Direction
Heh – Libertarian Except for the Cool Stuff:
Even the most Heinlein-quoting, Ayn Rand-lovin’, taxation-is-theft Wookie suiters get all weepy when NASA takes a shot in the payroll, when the simple fact of the matter is that the only spaceships the federal government has any constitutional business building should be run by the USAF and have frickin’ laser beams on them.
It’s a good thing NASA didn’t exist from the nation’s founding, or Lewis & Clark’s canoe would have taken thirty years to build and contained strips of birch bark from 72 different Congressional districts. If we want to see progress in space, we need to tell NASA to go research airfoil shapes and just declare everything that happens above X miles to be extraterritorial and tax-free.
[hat tip: Wesley]
Update: Fixed broken link.
February 1st, 2010 at 10:50 am
Link is busted.
Looks like you may have to find another program to work on, pending battles with Congress.
February 1st, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Good thing I learned to flip burgers in high school.
Seriously, I’m not all that concerned. It’s going to be a while before this policy change gets implemented, and there are other projects.
February 3rd, 2010 at 5:48 pm
What happens on the ISS, stays on the ISS!