Speaking of NASA, while looking to see if there was any news about Weiler being the new science chief on the NASA site (no, there isn't as I write this), I saw this at the top of their page:
Not to put too fine a point on this, but are you kidding me? They're comparing where NASA is now to the where we were projected to be in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey"? NASA folks, let's be honest here: this does not cast NASA in a good light. Even the image itself is damning: in the movie, that space station was a rotating dock carrying dozens if not hundreds of personnel, and was used as a way station to the Moon, where there was a thriving and expanding lunar base. And that was all supposed to take place seven years ago. NASA has a space station which is doing ...
