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djnemo65 · 07-05-2010, 09:38 PM

A NASA guy goes on Al Jazeera and attempts to ingratiate his agency to the station's Muslim audience, and from that we get the Obama administration is shirking its responsibilities to space exploration in favor of social engineering. Wow. If you are going to make a cogent argument you are going to have to deal with this on the level of material policy. What are the actual policies effecting the supposed change? Is there an actual funded program or is some guy just talking on TV? If there is a program, what is its cost? How is it funded? Most importantly, in what sense does it make things worse than they were before?

Perhaps an argument can be made, but no one is making it here. Stating that some immaterial modification of the stated objective of NASA is inconsistent with your notion of what the agency should be doing is not really worth much.

07-05-2010, 09:38 PM	#8
djnemo65 Playmaker Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 2,836	Re: Obama directs NASA to Improve Relations with the Muslim World A NASA guy goes on Al Jazeera and attempts to ingratiate his agency to the station's Muslim audience, and from that we get the Obama administration is shirking its responsibilities to space exploration in favor of social engineering. Wow. If you are going to make a cogent argument you are going to have to deal with this on the level of material policy. What are the actual policies effecting the supposed change? Is there an actual funded program or is some guy just talking on TV? If there is a program, what is its cost? How is it funded? Most importantly, in what sense does it make things worse than they were before? Perhaps an argument can be made, but no one is making it here. Stating that some immaterial modification of the stated objective of NASA is inconsistent with your notion of what the agency should be doing is not really worth much. Last edited by djnemo65; 07-05-2010 at 11:28 PM.