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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.
Found by Aric Mackey.
“Al Jazeera go build your ‘own’ space program.”
Or ‘anything’ usefull to the planet.
We dare you.
There might have been something lost in translation. NASA could be used in an attempt to bring Islam to a more secular outlook with a proper education in the sciences. This might be a worthy endeavor on the face of it but I suspect President Obama is more then a little naive. The attacks on 9/11 had several terrorists that had advanced degrees from western universities. A well-rounded, educated person can still hold to a radicalized faith tradition. Even if we don’t buy into their religious outlook, we would still need to send both scientists and theologians to be of any use to us both in a diplomatic and scientific way.
#19 He’s not a native English speaker. Be gentle with him.
If Islam had heros that were going into space, rather than heros who died trying to kill Jews and Christians, that would be a step in the right direction.
However, I’m not sure the effect Obama has on little black children. Hopefully he inspires them to work as hard as possible in school.
Actually, if Northern Ireland had people going into space in the 70s, I don’t think that would have done anything to disarm the IRA.
Hey, what’s wrong with encouraging and supporting some Muslim science ? They have had a slow couple thousand years.
So talk of improving relations with Muslims makes him an idiot? What an idiot.
Good luck with that Muslims in Space gadget. They freak out because they can’t figger out which is facing Mecca so they can flop around on the floor of the space station four times a day. And that Space Toilet is no good. They can’t wipe their butt with their bare left hand like Mohammed wants them to.
No surprise that the Man-Bear-Pigs have infiltrated NASA.
Maybe just maybe NASA wants to get it’s hands on the Black Stone of Mecca. After all it’s a meteorite with strange properties. Nearly a billion people face it everyday for no real purpose. Some of these same people even commit suicide in spectacular fashion or act in completely irrational ways like flying planes into buildings. We need to study this strange rock and see how and why it effects all those people in such adverse ways.
actually there is a lot of rare ressources much needed for space travel still laying untouched in the muslim world, much like there are in afgahnistan, which is of course the main reason for the western UN to be deployed there in continuous combat activity. To ensure a much “needed” surplus of extremly rare metals and minerals, giving up the opportunity to push the mining industries directly resulting in lower prices for exclusive crude material. which of course is in the interest of nasa and their tech-suppliers. because an increase in supplies also directly affects the manufacturing industries, in terms of reducing the prices in production. since there is more of that e. g. lithium you don’t need to be as diligent processing it, thus enhancing the profit span once more,
so as you see, life is not about faith, but about reinventing your ambient free world and modifying it in accord with your lively imagination.
heads up,
jakob
bavaria, europe.
I cant understand this one.
How is it possible ?
#27 How many times have I told you not to write while Asleep, huh? Wake up already!
Don’t know why he is going to stick with piggy guys..Bolden is going stupider and stupider…
Saw this headline on Fox “News” .com yesterday. It makes no sense whatsoever, but hooboy the wingnuts are commenting their asses off deriding the president about it. (bte, that site’s comments are a riot of idiocy)
Maybe we’ll eventually get the entire story about this non-story, or maybe not, but in either case the Fox universe already has their own version of the “truth” and they’re sticking to it, by god.
So I guess soon we will get to discover the effects suicide bombers have in space?
Yep the US of A is getting out of space. We are no longer going to have a launch vehicle able to send a man to the space station or large objects into space. In a lot of ways that’s a total shut down. We outsourced our industry and now we are rapidly ceasing to be a tech leader. We are rapidly heading toward just another debtor nation status.
Maybe China will take over. When one super power falls there’s normally another waiting to take over as top dog. Just the interest we have to pay them in one month would more than cover a shuttle program.
OT a bit, but plays into the same idea: The political right believes whatever they’re told to believe.
foremost job for this assbyte.
hit the road jack!
#39 I’m sorry, but I think you’re confusing everyone else with yourself.