Kyle Jernigan
You have got to be kidding me. I know that government spending is quite redundant – get it, government+spending = same thing – anyway, but what I read today is just the cherry on top of wasteful spending in DC. Surprise surprise…
Reader’s Digest version: NASA takes NINE FRICKIN YEARS to build this carbon dioxide studying satellite thing and attaches it to a rocket. No big deal if they were going to the Moon. Or Mars. Or the Sun. But they were just going into outer space, should it really take 9 years to map it out!?!? I mean, Google Map it or use MapQuest or something, that would take less time and less money too I bet. Or just go outside and look up. Yeah, just go outside, point that baby away from the ground, light the fuse, and guess what? Your rocket would be headed in the right direction! BRILLIANT! Now pay me 273,000,000 dollars please.
But what really makes this art is the fact the rocket lifted off and then crashed into the ocean somewhere near Antarctica a few minutes later! That’s right ladies and germs, nine years, 280 million dollars, for roughly $3,460/hour of development – all for not. Great job guys, way to plan that out. Thank GOD no humans were on board. Or monkeys.
All this after the Japanese had successfully gotten their carbon dioxide studying satellite into space. Here’s an idea, let’s come up with some great ideas and contract out the logistics to Japan (they make better cars anyway, and obviously more reliable rockets). But we could just buy the data we’re after from them too, which I’m sure would cost less than 280 million dollars. Or trade them Alex Rodriguez, his contract is worth about the same.
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