At least he has wings on his lapel. That should count for something. Donald Trump's record of finding the Best People for government jobs continued this week: Thursday, the Senate confirmed Jim Bridenstine, a US congressman from Oklahoma, as the new NASA administrator. Bridenstine brings to the job everything you'd expect in the leader of a national space agency, at least in some country that had never had a space program at all.
We're really fortunate to have Elon Musk to make up for the potential loss of brain power at NASA. He has created new technology that NASA has yet to achieve. To top it off he has done so with far less money than NASA has at it's disposal. Just as an aside, my fave astronomy site is Heavens-Above.com. they have continuous animation showing the location of the Tesla. It's one of the few sites I am happy to donate to. It's owned and operated by one guy. His name is Chris Peat. This is a great site. A true gift to anyone who cares about our solar system. The best place to find out when the ISS is passing over your part of the sky.
Was that the FUBAR at Wallops Island? We can witness launches from about an hour north of the site. Perched w/binoculars out of car sunroof, heard reaction go from 'ooooh!' to 'awwww!' in seconds. Took major effort to restore Launchpad.NASA was the only reason we ever enjoyed paying taxes...
We're really fortunate to have Elon Musk to make up for the potential loss of brain power at NASA. He has created new technology that NASA has yet to achieve. To top it off he has done so with far less money than NASA has at it's disposal. Just as an aside, my fave astronomy site is Heavens-Above.com. they have continuous animation showing the location of the Tesla. It's one of the few sites I am happy to donate to. It's owned and operated by one guy. His name is Chris Peat. This is a great site. A true gift to anyone who cares about our solar system. The best place to find out when the ISS is passing over your part of the sky.
Feck dis guy.Fuck Trump.Double bone the GOP
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Bridenstine? sounds kinda Semetic.
Also it"s harder to grift around competent people.
Oh my doG, who would have thunk it?
THIS!
Was that the FUBAR at Wallops Island? We can witness launches from about an hour north of the site. Perched w/binoculars out of car sunroof, heard reaction go from 'ooooh!' to 'awwww!' in seconds. Took major effort to restore Launchpad.NASA was the only reason we ever enjoyed paying taxes...
Look at Ben Carson.
NOOOOOOO!
How is that Bridenstine is named James rather than Frank?
Frank of the Bridenstines would have been awesome as a name, you know.
So he just repeated all the old debunked anti-climate-science claims. You might even say they were…canned claims?
If we still had consumer protection that picture would make a nice brochure warning "Do Not Buy a Used Car from anyone who looks like this."
This is all lunacy.
I would pay to see that!
OTOH, since Dr Frankenstein was his creator and in a sense his parent, I think he has a right to the surname.
My inner beast is howling.
Oklahoma might be bigger, to fit all the fat heads.