Comments on: WaPo notices NASA woes http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/07/31/wapo-notices-nasa-woes/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:47:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Paul Bevillard http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/07/31/wapo-notices-nasa-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-18130 Paul Bevillard Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:45:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/07/31/wapo-notices-nasa-woes/#comment-18130 And don't forget a football team from the moon called Moon Raiders. And don’t forget a football team from the moon called Moon Raiders.

]]> By: Blake Stacey http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/07/31/wapo-notices-nasa-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-18131 Blake Stacey Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:12:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/07/31/wapo-notices-nasa-woes/#comment-18131 Ah yes, the little known Twenty-two-and-a-halfth Amendment, covering all exploration above an altitude of 150 miles! "Those space exploration duties not expressly reserved for the Federal Government are granted to the States or to the people. Congress shall pass no law infringing upon the ability of corporations to ferry pop singers into orbit and sell meaningless names for distant stars." <blockquote>When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything: the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.</blockquote> --<i>Fight Club</i> (1999) Ah yes, the little known Twenty-two-and-a-halfth Amendment, covering all exploration above an altitude of 150 miles! “Those space exploration duties not expressly reserved for the Federal Government are granted to the States or to the people. Congress shall pass no law infringing upon the ability of corporations to ferry pop singers into orbit and sell meaningless names for distant stars.”

When deep space exploration ramps up, it’ll be the corporations that name everything: the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

–Fight Club (1999)

]]> By: Caleb Turberville http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/07/31/wapo-notices-nasa-woes/comment-page-1/#comment-18132 Caleb Turberville Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:05:42 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2006/07/31/wapo-notices-nasa-woes/#comment-18132 I figured out how to solve NASA's problems. Privatize all non-military extra-terrestrial activities, like the good ole Constitution calls for. I figured out how to solve NASA’s problems. Privatize all non-military extra-terrestrial activities, like the good ole Constitution calls for.

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