NASA is having a certified Bad Hair Day: Sabotage, Drunk Cosmonauts, Theft – what else should we expect?
Several sources reported that a computer that is supposed to fly aboard shuttle Endeavour in less than two weeks, was sabotaged.
A NASA panel reported that drunk astronauts were allowed to fly despite warnings about their alcohol consumption. I guess no cops can catch them for DUI up there.
Compared to this the loss of $94M in office equipment is just petty theft. Here’s my favorite explanation, this one referring to a missing laptop, valued $4,265:
This computer, although assigned to me, was being used on board the International Space Station. I was informed that it was tossed overboard to be burned up in the atmosphere when it failed.
Your tax money at work.
Not mine – our politicians and beurocrats waste our taxpayers money on other frivolities!
But with the power of Web2.0 we can subvert the tyranny that is democracy and create something bigger, better and more sustainable for all.
Or something…..
Or at least talk alot in the process of trying!
There was talk a couple years ago about a group of evangelicals at NASA in Houston, who were suspected of having sabotaged three consecutive Mars orbiter missions. The supposed motive was fear of the upheaval that might result if evidence of life—especially intelligent life—were found from the remote past. Has anyone else heard about that conspiracy theory?
Jay
Haven’t heard of that, but this is a hilarious article on NASA: http://www.nationalsquib.com/html/space_shuttle.html