It is not fucking TALENT! If you want something you invest in the outcome. If we wanted to have American engineers and scientists today that can put people back on the moon and not Musk’s fail rockets spinning out of control over the Indian Ocean and exploding over the Caribbean while a bunch of clout hounds cheer on the livestream like it’s a big success then 20 years ago we would have been putting money into things like universal higher education, like other countries that take the future seriously.

I grew up around Johnson Space Center and remember the layoffs being devastating to so many people, actual trained engineers and such being laid off to facilitate the pivot toward a private space industry thats most recent success has been to pollute South Texas and the Gulf, as if that poor 300 million year old inlet sea can take any more abuse. 198 Raptor engines are down there. Just a little ecocide as a treat.

Who wants to tell him.

Why does his face look so strange in this pic? Did he lose weight? Is it photoshopped?

I only know this guy:

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Ah, seems white enough

Willing to accept Nazi war-criminals as honest Americans, but black women calculators are DEI hires

Given that it was German Nazis who were the pioneers of NASA, this statement is hilarious.

Surely this means they'll be investing in education then right?

right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

The operation, characterized by the recruitment of German specialists and their families, relocated more than 1600 experts to the US. It has been valued at US$10 billion in patents and industrial processes. Recruits included such notable figures as Wernher von Braun, a leading rocket-technology scientist. Those recruited were instrumental in the development of the US space program and military technology during the Cold War. Despite its contributions to American scientific advances, Operation Paperclip has been controversial because of the Nazi affiliations of many recruits, and the ethics of assimilating individuals associated with war crimes into American society.

The operation was not solely focused on rocketry; efforts were directed toward synthetic fuels, medicine, and other fields of research. Notable advances in aeronautics fostered rocket and space-flight technologies pivotal in the Space Race. The operation played a crucial role in the establishment of NASA and the success of the Apollo missions to the Moon.

He's going hard on the guyliner on this interview wtf

Cool, then what are y’all waiting for? Hire us! Tell ol’ porkchop to wake up, stop his pickiness and put us to work already! We’ve been waiting years!

https://youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro

edit: ah I should probably not leave this bit up

“We don’t need to import a foreign class of servants when we are working hard in the government to ensure we have ample peasants and servants right here born and bred in the good ‘ol’ USA!”