I'm excited for not only a return to the space race from America but also from a private company! I can't tell you how disappointed I was that Obama turned NASA into a Muslim outreach service. Yeah so apparently Arabic people helped with early math and Indians invented the concept of 0 and all, but I mean you can't be as far along as NASA had been and then decide to make a u-turn to big up some folks who have been dead hundreds of years. Since people like 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk (quadratics), Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (centers of gravity), and Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi (arithmetic) what have Muslim people provided more than anyone else? Space is literally above and should figuratively be above getting involved in race and religion.
"When I became the NASA administrator, (President Obama) charged me with three things," Bolden said in the interview which aired last week. "One, he wanted me to helpre-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted metoexpand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering." - Charles Bolden
"engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering."
So our tax dollars were spent not on "getting to Mars" or creating better more advanced travel systems, but a self-esteem project for Muslim nations. Fucking pathetic.
Elon Musk is a funny dude, he's very interesting in this day and age. Could be a modern day Tycoon/Robber Baron, could be a Howard Hughes-esque dreamer.
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