You don't need me to bang on about the latest example of silliness from the higher-ups. Regarding the new "direction" for NASA: Somebody please tell me that it's a joke of Onionesque proportions. Space exploration is about space exploration and things like this or this or this, not about "outreach" or touchy-feely public relations pablum. That's not science; that's not even junk science. Like this other fresh example of pseudo-scientific stupidity, the goal isn't knowledge or investigation at all!
You know how much I love science and astronomy and NASA, how space exploration makes my nerdy little heart flutter, so I shall simply post a piquant cartoon (via Bread upon the Waters) and let it speak for me. Click to enlarge.
UPDATE 1: OK, I can't help myself. I just have to give you this patently fatuous quote from the news story. It's by, God help us all, NASA administrator Charles Bolden: "NASA is not only a space exploration agency. It's also an earth improvement agency." Say WHAT? Oh, for cr*p's sake. It's not a PR firm. Has this guy ever read the NASA charter?
Whatever. I am now going to go play "I Am A Scientist" by the Dandy Warhols. Really, really loudly.
UPDATE 2: More here, with links. Check out this bit of satirical, sarcastic, hilariously subversive commentary.
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