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Obama to NASA: Primary mission to help Muslims feel good about themselves

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    makes sense to assign this priority to the space agency. and, it's well known that if Muslims had greater self-esteem, they wouldn't be blownin' our **** up.

    [rquoter]NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World

    NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

    Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel.

    "When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand 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 ... and math and engineering," Bolden said in the interview.

    The NASA administrator was in the Middle East last month marking the one-year anniversary since Obama delivered an address to Muslim nations in Cairo. Bolden spoke in June at the American University in Cairo -- in his interview with Al Jazeera, he described space travel as an international collaboration of which Muslim nations must be a part.

    "It is a matter of trying to reach out and get the best of all worlds, if you will, and there is much to be gained by drawing in the contributions that are possible from the Muslim (nations)," he said. He held up the International Space Station as a model, praising the contributions there from the Russians and the Chinese.

    However, Bolden denied the suggestion that he was on a diplomatic mission -- in a distinctly non-diplomatic role.

    "Not at all. It's not a diplomatic anything," he said.

    He said the United States is not going to travel beyond low-Earth orbit on its own and that no country is going to make it to Mars without international help.

    Bolden has faced criticism this year for overseeing the cancellation of the agency's Constellation program, which was building new rockets and spaceships capable of returning astronauts to the moon. Stressing the importance of international cooperation in future missions, Bolden told Al Jazeera that the moon, Mars and asteroids are still planned destinations for NASA.[/rquoter]
     
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    Oh dear god. You are too much Basso. You realize he was speaking to a Muslim audience, don't you?

    Don't you?

    Probably, and sadly not.

    Why do you hate Muslims so much anyway?
     
    #2 Sweet Lou 4 2, Jul 6, 2010
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    and there's more:

    Charles Bolden, the first African American to head NASA, is under fire for wanting to cancel a $10 million biofuels project. Supporters of this project include his deputy, Lori Carver. Bolden is being investigated by the NASA inspector general because he consulted on the project's merits with Marathon Oil, where he served on the board of directors and still holds up to $1 million in company stock. Marathon Oil has competing biofuels technology under development, which some suggest is the reason Bolden quashed the project. Bolden's actions in light of his relationship to Marathon Oil triggered the investigation. This is not looking good for a man with a storied career.
     
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    I think we should give all Muslim Countries a bunch of 'Slap Chops'. Cause Vince said that you could slap all your troubles away with a Slap Chop....slap slap slap your troubles away...
     
    #5 Qball, Jul 6, 2010
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    Basso, is your primary mission to post like an idiot? If so, you've succeeded.
     
    #7 Codman, Jul 6, 2010
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    da_juice to basso: Don't care
     
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    Is Basso criticizing big oil?
     
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    Reagan did it, too. What? No outrage?
     
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    The thing that actually bothers me most is the mention that no new space endeavors can be tried without international help and participation.

    In the past, the US just kicked butt and flung ourselves to the moon, the rest of the world can follow. Now to explore new environments and advance science, we have to hold hands with the international communitity to do so?

    Its like the US needs a rival to get us back into the enterprising spirit again, much like Russia used to. Maybe we need China to announce that they are sending a Mars mission before 2020 or something so we can get out and kick butt again.

    Its like we've outsourced exploration and adventure.
     
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    It's not international help... it's commercial help... which is actually smart. The amount of new jobs that can be created, as well as putting money back into the economy is a huge bonus. Otherwise it would be the US government spending its budget and creating a bigger debt on a US governmental agency where virtually no money combing back into the economy.
     
    #12 Hydhypedplaya, Jul 9, 2010
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