Daily Gut: Feelings Before Frontiers
by Greg GutfeldAs most viewers know, I hate outer space. It makes me feel small – and when I think about how large it is, I get dizzy. It’s like trying to comprehend infinity: it’s beyond our ability, and an underrated Journey album.
But even though I hate outer space, I get its importance. Unlike President Obama, who thinks NASA is a shinier version of Epcot Center.
According to a piece by Byron York, Obama ordered NASA administrator Charles Bolden to focus on three goals – inspire brats to study science and math, expand international relations (which only works when hookers are involved), and help Muslims “feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering”. These goals, as Hot Air notes – have nothing to do with space.
But they are spacey.
And so our President has put feelings before frontiers. Which is a mistake, because you can’t inspire anyone – kids or Muslims – without actually doing something. And if space exploration is no longer about space exploration, what exactly is it?
Crap.
But you know what it should be about?
Blowing up crap. Fact is, we love movies like Star Wars, Star Trek and Star Jones – not for their emotion, but for their annihilation. In short: we need to weaponize space. Personally, I can’t think of a better way to excite a kid than giving him the chance to obliterate Pandora.
I hate those people.
As for Muslims, outreach failed. New polls show that Muslim nations hate us just as much as before – so Obama’s outstretched hand has left them limp. Fact is, other countries – Muslim or otherwise – respect power, and see appeasement as a weakness. If you want them to like us, build something that will scare the shit out of them.
And, it’s going to happen whether we do it or not. So we might as well be first.
And if you disagree with me, you’re a racist homophobe who hates soccer.
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I don't know, Greg. if we could get NASA to send all the jihadis to the moon, I'd be for it.
I guess that means NASA now stand for: Never Alienate Soldiers of Allah!
How would a conversation about making Muslims feel better about their contributions to science?
"Several hundred years ago, Muslim contributed heavily to the science of astronomy. Over those hundreds of years since … uh, um, er … nothing. Feel better?"
This post brought to you by the Muslims early contributed to library sciences. When they ruled Spain hundreds of years ago, they brought their understanding of libraries with them, and European quickly caught on and stole their idea of libraries. Thank you, Muslim contribution to library sciences. And Laura Bush thanks you too.
NASA's fourth objective? To put on a crappy half-time show at one of this year's NFL Thanksgiving games. The theme? Don't Stop Believin'.
'help Muslims “feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering”.
I just looked up the list of Muslim Nobel prize winners for those three fields listed above. Talk about pathetic. Science is one. Math is none. And Engineering doesn't have a category so that's none also. As for the Muslims who won the Nobel in Physics, Physiology, Medicine and Economics? None. BUT you will be pleased to know that four Muslims have won the Peace Prize – Sadat, Arafat, Ebadi and ElBaradei.
Oh, wait – hold it a second – I forgot the fifth Muslim to win the Peace Prize. You'll find him in the Oval Office making plans to go golfing in all 57 states.
LMAO! Whenever someone talks about Islamic contributions to science, always add that those contributions were made on the backs of Aristotle, Hindu mathematicians and the collective knowledge of the Hellenic/Eastern Roman Empire and Sassanid Persian Empire that they appropriated. Most of the great scholarly work done under the Caliphate was due to Greek, Assyrian, Persian and Egyptian scholars.
Perhaps if we started building a Massive Death Star in Space dedicated to the Ideology of Peace we can create jobs, Promote Science , and Make Muslims Feel Better knowing the United States has something than can annihilate any really mean people with nasty nuclear devices from Space.
Space will be weaponized at some point. Too many rival nations with large militaries and growing economies are also developing their own space programs. And should science develop a way to capitalize on space-borne resources in an efficient, profitable way, then we'll see an armed space race that makes the sixties look tame by comparison.
My dad worked at NASA when I was a kid. He told me recently that it was just a big jobs bill with diplomatic uses. So maybe Obama's intention for it is simply the only honest statement to come from this administration.
New polls show that Muslim nations hate us just as much as before – so Obama’s outstretched hand has left them limp.
In other news, Pfizer announced today that record-breaking Viagra sales to Muslim countries since the Obama inauguration have boosted stock prices 39%.
Face it the only time Moslems are happy is when someone else is dying in a bomb blast,
Oh yea, lets change the name too. Nasty Arabs Seeking Annihilation (NASA).
Why yes, let's get the Muslims involved in space. After all, their god is based on the Moon God (Moon/Muslim). So, instead of facing Mecca (Moon/Muslim/Mecca), we can actually move Mecca for them so they can face there in person (Moon/Muslim/Mecca/Maccaca).
Engineering + Islam = People / Explosions
With a short supply of oxygen.
You guys are being too harsh on Obambi here. All prototypes need testers, and since jihadis love to test things that go 'boom', so Obambi is just asking for their cooperation as volunteers.
True, but before being yanked back to the Dark Ages, there were a few excellent Muslim scholars, like Averroes (Ibn Rashd).
Bringing back Reagan's Star Wars–YAY!
Not to mention the fact that most of these documentaries conveniently leave out the fact that the Byzantines/East Romans had the libraries which were captured by the Muslims as they formed the Ummyyad Caliphate.
And that Irish Monasteries had an incalculable amount of information stored within. But these facts are too damaging to our poor Muslim friends' self esteem…or something…according to Obama…so Nasa is reassigned to revise history.
As if MSNBC wasn't already employed full time doing exactly that.
With NASA being tasked by DEAR LEADER 0 to make Muslims feel better about themselves……………
I wonder how long it will be before DEAR LEADER 0 tasks NASA with helping the Muslim space program…………
Then how long before the Muslims from Iran lob a "space vehicle" at Israel?
this is truly amateur hour at NASA…
From the people who sent the Apollo missions to the moon with a sliderule and computers less powerful than your desk calculator we get THIS? Gordo Cooper, Alan White, Gus Grissom and Alan Chaffee died to make Islam feel 'better' about science??
Giveth us a break…
The next time we have something turn obsolete in space, we should send a jihadist up to crash it into a building on earth. They'd love us then.
Then send up a nuke or two–but then that might destroy the moon, dislodge it from orbit, and skewer things here on earth. How about we send them up with a supply of water laced with estrogen.
i would like the nasa mission to get back to the moon, start a base, and put a large laser gun on it. then point it at the capitals of iran, syria, north korea, and any other dictator, or crazy muslim leaders house. then start testing it, we might miss at first, but better miss and wipe out a few blocks of the crazy leaders countries. i think then we would gain respect of those crazy leaders. this bow, and apologize thing hasn't seemed to work so far. oh, and greg, keep the old spice guy away from ann coulter, i think she has a thing for him. check out her site, if you think i am kidding.
I have nothing worthwhile to say. truly nothing. My husband considered cross-training with NASA from the Air Force–just to see if he could make the program. I've always wanted to go into space (most likely from too much Star Trek). I thought it was about exploration and discovery. Now it's about giving pouty, spoiled children with explosives and an axe to grind access to a big rocket loaded full of liquid hydrogen. Yeah–this is a good thing…
Granted, Averroes was a brilliant man, and also influenced the work of another scholar of medieval Islamic kingdoms (though he was Jewish), Maimonides.
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If you set actual goals (go to the Moon) it's easy to tell when you're failing (not on the Moon). By setting ill-defined goals, Obama makes it hard to tell when he's failing.
I'm convinced that this administration is dedicated to raising Jimmy Carter's standing in history.
if you wanted to go into space, you should have married jackie gleeson, bang zoom right to the moon alice!!
No need to explore space. We're already living on another planet.
isn't the goal let the muslims drive the space shuttle? they did a bang up job with our air planes
I liked your post, and gave you +1, but….my pocketbook knows when Obama's failing. I'm guessing so do the Israelis/gulf-coast fishermen/soldiers in Afghanistan/Hondura government/(insert long list here) .
Sending them to the moon may really mess with its mass and gravity. I think we should send them to Pluto. Ever since those sciencey types decided its not a planet anymore it really has no purpose anymore.
I heart ICBMs!!
Muslims don't have any contributions to science. They just don't. Really. They don't.
Hey warn a guy when you're gonna do that. Now I have to clean my monitor.
Oh I don't think that it is that hard to figure out when he is failing. It's harder to figure out what he's up to if you ask me.
so, are you saying arafat was more deserving than obama, or, arafat and obama didn't deserve it. i am ok with sadat, i was watching when they shot him, just terrible. they killed sadat for actually trying to make peace.
i think uranus is what i call a perfect place to put muslims. if we don't have rockets, we will just have to use locals.
Kids shouldn't be getting their "inspiration" from a government bureau anyway. They should be inspired by folks like Elon Musk, who started SpaceX and has put a launcher capable of putting men and cargo into orbit for roughly 100th the price NASA can. The jury is still out if they'll accomplish getting men into orbit in the required time period but there was no doubt that NASA was already late, still had technical problems to solve and so far over budget that you could buy SpaceX 10 times over with their overruns.
The only thing NASA has going for it is a great PR department. Maybe they could put some cool space movies together.
Are you kidding me?!?! Mr. Boldens official title needs to be changed to Chief in Charge of NASA and Suicide Bombing Outreach. What is it with this Obama guy? Does he have some sort of punch list on how to foul up the United States of America that he and the wife cooked up? Midterms are right around the corner and we will crush these commies – one at a time. Not to mention why on God's green earth would you want to ease the access to fundamentalist nut cases and hypergolic materials, have we f-ing lost it?
It had to be done: NASA's new logo. I'm sure there are 100s already. I've given the moon landing a do over, too.
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Does this surprise anyone? The more they talk, more millions of citizens of this great country wake up! We were the LEADER in space exploration and along with it came SO many technological advances. Being a "rocket scientist" meant something. That is one of many things that has made us exceptional. We all know how important space is for our future and security (but they won't even secure our borders, let alone space) but now they are sadly even killing NASA. After all, we're no longer allowed to be exceptional. Under the current plan, we won't even be able to get to the International Space Station without begging Russia for a ride.
"To the moon…and BEYOND!"
And algebra. Don't forget algebra. I mean, who doesn't love algebra?
I thought we were up to 59…? (damn algebra…)
Very true. While many of the medieval Islamic civilization's "accomplishments" in science, math, and technology were not exactly their own, there were undoubtedly some brilliant scholars, such as Averroes and Maimonades (hope I spelled that right).
At least one scholar has posited that the reason for the Muslim world's subsequent intellectual stagnation may be because of its monolithic nature. The political/religious pluralism in Europe allowed for a rapid and meaningful exchange of ideas that allowed the continent to take the achievements of others and to improve on and exploit them to the fullest. The Islamic world, on the other hand, had only a few large empires, dominated by an oppressive dogma, permitting much less cultural fruition over time. This may explain why a supposed "center of civilization" was eventually relegated to backwater status.
Ummm……so many responses, so few of them appropriate……..
An excellent book that covers the sunset of Islam's influence in science, etc., along with the rise of Europe is "Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages" by Richard Rubenstein. A fun read, not dry at all.
Bleh.
LOL!
Muslims haven't contributed to science, mathematics, or engineering in 1300 years! They didn't even invent Arabic numerals; the Hindus did. Why not have NASA do outreach to Mayans? Mayan contributions to science, mathematics and engineering are more current than that.
Is Obama failing anything like Obama lying? If it is, all you have to do is see if his lips are moving.
Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed is awesome, and my favorite blending of philosophy and religion besides Thomas Aquinas to come out of the Middle Ages.
I still think Heinleins' idea works for me. In 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress', they used Arab ideas about math and dropped rocks in laser sight precision on places on Earth. Nasa can do both things under the chicago thugs' mandate here!
Teach kids how Arab ideas gave us the ability to paste a whole bunch of ragheads in seconds~ It would truly be the circle of life!
I'm okay with Sadat as well. Arafat was pond scum. As for Obama? Everyone in the world is more deserving of a Peace Prize than him – including my dog Fido.
Has the President of the United States drunk (among many other toxic beverages) the whole self-esteem kool aid as well?
Beam me up, Scotty! There are no signs of intelligent life in the WH.
I'm sorry, but WTF does NASA have to do with making Muslims feel warm and fuzzy about their ANCIENT contributions to science? Yet another reason to vote this goof-ball moron out of office come 2012. Perhaps NASA will then ship him and his ilk on a many year mission and we'll never hear from him again.
The muslim world has not done anything in the science arena, because of islam.. before islam, they were allowed to think and imagine. after the birth of islam, they are not allowed such free thought and have been stuck in 670 ad since. Just go through history and try to find anything of importance coming out of any islamic ruled country in the last 1000 years…
Look, they are debating today, in 2010 about weather to stone a woman to death….. Stone a woman to death, as in tie her up in a laundry bag, or bury her up to her neck, and pelt her with stones until she is dead.. that is what they concern themselves with in islamic countrys.. defiantly not science and advancement..
Obama wants to use NASA to make Muslims feel good about themselves. That's why Obama has ordered his NASA administrator to start working on a new rocket program called "al Shabab". The al Shaba rocket only has room for a one man crew, suicide vest and a burka. There's alot of evil in space and it's time to start terrorising the hell out of it.
As Joe Biden might say "Houston, we gotta really big f'n problem".
Among Arabs, there is more than one ideology – and ideology is not the same as ethnicity. ARABS have contributed to math and science – NOT Muslims per se, and some were Jews and Christians under Arabic rule. And Arabic Numerals were actually invented by Hindu Indians – 'Arabic Numerals' is a misnomer! Egyptians have contributed more to the civilized world, and they were polytheists and then Coptic Christians until Muslims mass murdered them for giggles and funsies. Muslims have only set modernity Backward to the 7th century. Even so, there haven't been any significant contributions from the Arab world for 800 years because of their evil ideology. Thank God for Jewish Achievements! *cough* Einstein *cough*
Good point and it would be great to be there first. I've heard people say "why weaponise space?" like we would do it for fun, they don't think that there are other nations out there that would be happy to crush us given the chance so it would be smart to never give them the chance.
That is what I wanted to say! Send them to the moon with VERY limited oxygen (may landing plus 10 hours….).
Forbid that NASA do any work but now they are a public affairs wing of the White House. NASA has been a running joke for at least a decade and those idots aren't really doing any science or research anyways. I could expect nothing less out of this racist, communist, enslaving administration. Repeatedly they have shown themselve to be racist with the lack of charges against the black panthers, the attacks on the AZ law and the people that support it, the attacks on the tea party movement, and on and on. The biggest racist are the black people and the movement that Obama has been part of, but it is ok because he isn't white racist…RACISM IS WRONG!
IF YOU VOTED FOR OBAMA BECAUSE HE IS A BLACK MAN………………YOU ARE RACIST!
Just another example of the left doing what they accuse everyone else of being, racist, biogets that couldn't care less about this country and are out to exact revenge and push a racist agenda…….KILL COMMUNISM CONFIRMEDDEAD.COM
Don't forget the woman that had her hands cut off, or the one with genital mudilation, or the one beheaded for driving a car, or the one beat for being in public without a man, or the one in jail for speaking women's rights, or the married couple that are in jail for kissing in public, or the couple in jail for holding hands……….
Where are the women rights people screaming……Oh the deafening silence..Where are the NAGS?
Whatever math, science or engineering they learn, courtesy of 0bama, will advance their capacity to attack us. Nuff said.
Patronizing Muslims is not going to help them. We currently are in the Information/Knowledge Age and for any culture to flourish in these times, the whole of the population must be productive. Radical Islam prohibits one half of the population (women) from education and participation. Thus the other half of the population (men) must carry the load for the entire culture (and while they're doing it, play guard on their wives and daughters like stallions guarding the herd of mares). Of THAT 50%, some men are too young (boys) and some too old (retired) to participate fully. Thus about 30% of the population must support the culture. That could be done in the Stone, Medieval, Agricultural and Industrial Ages, but it cannot be done in the Modern Era. We need women as nurses, doctors, teachers, administrators — and if they're wrapped up in shrouds and imprisoned in their homes, they simply cannot do that. This is why Muslims have become so desperate. They cannot move into the Modern Age, so they must destroy it.
"I know rocket scientists. And, Barack, you are no rocket scientist."
@thinker67
Hahahaha!
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL. Load of Muslims to set free."
I see that the Palestinians on the Gaza Strip already have their own rocket program (with their Al-Qassam rockets that they've been "testing" on the Israelis.
as wee lads NASA, along with the Beatles, Bond, and Baseball were 'it' for us. So sad…
I nominate this for Post of the Day! Excellent comment!
"this is truly amateur hour at NASA".
More importantly, it's amateur hour at the White House.
vuitton stop arguing ~~love our earth ~~that what we should do~~
Now come on darogr,
They did at one time. They even beat the Chinese back in the days when you could probably still find some dinosaurs on remote islands. They are skilled engineers and inventors. They just have this oppressive, stoneaged religion, which, btw, didn't use to be nearly as oppressive before power drunk crap mullahs succumbed to power's inevitable addiction.
Anyway this new and devolved version of islamic fundamentalism aside….they did some pretty incredible things back before their imams decided blowin themselves up for allah was a viable cottage industry.
Thanks to THAT brilliant step backward, they are DEVOLVING as we speak. Wait long enough and duck fast enough and they'll blow themselves to zero population growth in record time with their shiney new "Allah, uh oh" scheme.
I think these kinds of, how to say it nicely, Jihad E. Coyote bombers should be encouraged to blow themselves to hellngone….while we put our best and brightest to work inventin bomb proof clothes and matchin ball caps with our favorite team logos on'em.
And may their virgins all look and act like Rosey
))))))))))))))))
Want to inspire kids in math and science? Then at least GO TO THE FRICKIN' MOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!
from the top down, as the saying goes…
I grew up on the Space Coast and had an excellent view of launch day from my family's driveway. So the more I read about this story, the more I want to bash my brains in. Another part of my childhood spoiled by politics.
Obama is, ironically, continuing the application of the White Man's Burden. Big O has patronizingly assumed the Islamic world is feeling low, so it is our responsibility, our moral obligation, to make them feel good about themselves. (Big Pharmacy has some good quick solutions to this particular problem, by the way.) Hey, everybody! I know! Let's put on a show!
The United States has two space programs. On the front cover of the book "An Alien Harvest", there is a time-lapse photograph of a spacecraft making right-angle turns. These turns are produced by folding space waveguides to develop lift to get out of the atmosphere. A Marsian pilot is transporting an MJ12 operative to the MEPI underground base on Mars. According to Andy Basiago, he was teleported to Mars using a military teleportation machine. In fact, he met these Marsian pilots at a US military base. These spacecraft use space-time curvature to produce lift and propulsion. The second space program, which is a front for the first one, is NASA. This program uses obsolete rocket technology to launch shuttles and modules to the International Space Station in low-earth orbit. So here is the strategy. Get the Muslims and other countries involved in funding the ISS program. Get their engineers and scientists to develop this obsolete technology. This will free up our resources and engineers to work on the Mars base and development of the motherships, interdimensional craft, teleportation equipment, and time-travel systems. Don't worry about the engineers leaving their mortgaged homes, the government will bail out the Fannie Mae. Convert the Fort Knox gold bars into gold-plated tungsten bars and use the gold to pay the aliens for transporting our equipment to Mars in their motherships. Once we have all this advanced technology in place, our allies will be so far behind in knowledge and technology that it will be impossible for them to catch up. We will be able, for example, to install video cameras in hyperspace co-dimensions and tape all the activity in the Iranian underground nuclear facilities. We will be able to prevent them from developing any advanced technology. The aliens did this to President Clinton who was "dumbfounded and dumbshocked" when they appeared in front of his desk in the Oval Office. His expression was filmed by cameras located slightly out of dimension. I think this is the strategy which on the surface looks puzzling, but has another deeper purpose which is now becoming apparent.
Can't. Same problem with launching nuclear waste into the sun. If it blows up on take off, it'll just scatter the terrorists every where.
How about how long they can hold their breath?
Nice hat tip to last week's Pixar theme.
What about the library at Alexandria?
Libraries go back much further than Muslims.
I love algebra.
Math is one of the very few areas in life where you can be 100% sure you are right.
And we'll call it the 'Peace Keeper' in honor of Ronald Reagan!
No need to weaponzie space. We already have ICBMs.
Did you hear the one about the suicide bomb teacher?
"Now pay close attention because I'm only showing you this once."
Same here with Star Trek. I knew I was never going to get into the space program, but I would have settled being a technician on the shuttles.
And NASA never even replied to my resume.
I am not even going to ask what you had out when you read that.
Finally, one accomplishment Obama can't point to.
As I understand it, the Arabs weren't so much as inventing science as they were about holding it during the dark ages.
Who NASA should really be out reaching to is Portuguese house boys.
(Sorry, Gut's threads always make me go for the house boy jokes.)
I read a book a few years on it, and if I recall correctly it has to do with the fundamental differences between Christianity and Islam.
Christians believe God created the universe, and its governed by a set of rules (physics) that are defined and unchanging, there fore they can be figured out.
Islam believes God created the universe but the only reason it appears to be definable is because God wills it so, and can change all of them tomorrow. Since the rules can change at any time, for any reason, it doesn't promote the learning of science or experimentation.
I have no idea how to respond to this… or even think about it…
Live long and prosper. Nanu Nanu.
Go back to before the Crusades, Ed. They were right up there with the Incas and Aztecs in their knowledge of astronomy, even invented a type of telescope earlier than endoeuropeans did, I think, but hell, I've slept since then so my dates could be off.
Bottom line, before fundamentalism swept the more progressive sects like Iranians and Iraqis and Egyptians….there were some pretty sharp tacs in their box.
All bets off after the crusades. My best guess is the repression and return to fundamental sectarianism among the more enlightened sects anyway came from Spanish type Inquisitions and all that westerner "HELP" the Pope gave'em, LOLOL.
But like I say….I've slept since then.
Their knowlege of astronomy, mathematics and all that good stuff just happened to be in that part of the world before Islam.
Islamists have done their best to erase the past glory of that part of the world, and they were pretty darn glorious in their day.
Islam has invented nothing, except the concept of suicide bombing.
But I wanted to send them to the sun…
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