Ted cruz to oversee nasa?!

[The Grand Nudger]

They need to get back into weapons R/D, then the cash will roll in. Never should have let the shuttle die. Put a cannon/bomb/missile in that big bitch, watch it pick up another 50 years of service from beyond the grave.

[abaris]

Put a cannon/bomb/missile in that big bitch, watch it pick up another 50 years of service from beyond the grave.

Which would be a small step for idiocy but a huge leap for inhumanity.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Ted Cruz has all of the brains of a dung beetle, but none of its charm.

[FatAndFaithless]

Ted Cruz: as slippery as a worm and twice as smart!

[Minimalist]

I think it's ok for religious people to be in positions of power, as long as they are ones who know it's all crap really :p

You know, like people pray but they still send their kid to the doctor. That sort of thing. They can be in charge.

That leaves out those two shits.

[Anomalocaris]

NASA has been moribund since 1968.

I wouldn't go that far. Rover has been a resounding success, and the recent Orion launch was successful. Of course, long term goals aren't going to mean shit without any funding to make it happen. NASA has never been the problem; the problem is politicians who don't see the merit of funding the agency in light of the Republican battle cry of "fiscal responsibility", oft accompanied by a pulsating frontal vein and slightly bulging eyes.

None of what NASA has done since 1968 have been self-sustaining. The shuttle program is really a giant 40 year boondoggle. Technically impressive boondoggle to be sure, but its continued existence after around 1972 was nonetheless justified solely on massive and conscious lies and deceits about its real civilian space potential. It's real initial justification was as a manned military surveillance and bombardment system based on late 1960s technology outlook. That justification evaporated by middle of 1970s with advancement in technology and changes in geopolitics. As a result the shuttle has really been a massive millstone around the neck of American civilian space program, having very modest capabilities for civilian use, but saddled with a basic design and massive weight to cater to military requirements that no longer existed. As a result it manage to do billions of dollars of impressive work for many tens of billions of dollars of investment. Programs such as the international space station, otherwise unjustifiable for the cost, become justified mainly to give the shuttle something that can be sold (falsely) as fitting unique capabilities of the shuttle, thus help hide the deceit that spawned the shuttle.

Since the demise of the shuttle NASA has been set on a path which could not possibly be fully funded. Thus it is being put on a course to further failures.

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They need to get back into weapons R/D, then the cash will roll in. Never should have let the shuttle die. Put a cannon/bomb/missile in that big bitch, watch it pick up another 50 years of service from beyond the grave.

Nasa resurrecting the shuttle would be like a murder victim resurrecting his killer so he can be murdered again.

[Surgenator]

@OP

Thats it, I need to find a science job somewhere outside the US.

[The Grand Nudger]

Which would be a small step for idiocy but a huge leap for inhumanity.

Are we aiming for ideological purity or funding? The midgets need appeasing, I don't mind providing them with yet another useless and expensive weapon system, if the upshot is that we get back into the business of being Murica-in-Spaaaaaace! There are some rocks out there that positively scream out to be crushed under the cruel boot of American Imperialism, imo.

[Minimalist]

Are we aiming for ideological purity or funding?

There is no difference to scumbags like Cruz.

[Jaysyn]

Ted Cruz has all of the brains of a dung beetle, but none of its charm.

Ted Cruz: Not fit to run a bath.