We write letters....

[tikistitch]

Dearest Bush White House,

You seem to be having a teensy eensy problem with the whole Science thing. We'd like to help. Therefore, please note that, unlike what you may have been told, NASA's mission is not "To make the president look good." Rather, an Agency staffed by rocket scientists generally does best, ya know, designing rockets 'n stuff. (That's why all the mention of "Space" in the Agency's title.)

Though perhaps if you're very nice to them, they will still send you to Mars.

♥♥♥

--tiki

Comments

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

Can we please arrange for that to be a one-way trip?

Pretty please, with science on top?

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, that isn't the kind of Science we personally do. Our purview is lately limited to the treatment of rectal cancer. Rest assured, if Our President ever requires assistance with his a**hole, we'd be happy to help.

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

Great. You owe me for a new monitor, since I spat out my orange juice all over it!!

There's a great two-panel cartoon by B. Kliban called "The Proctologist's Nightmare." In the first panel, the guy is sitting up in bed in the middle of the night and says, "What if I woke up one day and there were no more assholes?"

In the second panel, his wife says reassuringly, "Don't worry, dear, there will always be plenty to go around!"

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

"Don't worry, dear, there will always be plenty to go around!"

Sad, but true. Though, it keeps *me* in business. ^_^

[loli-cat.livejournal.com]

Not to mention, despite the word SPACE in the name, the space shuttle is just THAT - a shuttle...a damn flying delivery truck! What we need is to raid the nursing homes, get our engineers back together and design some frikken SPACECRAFT to explore SPACE!!

[omahastar.livejournal.com]

This is just one more reason we loves our Tiki.

[yarol-2075.livejournal.com]

*snort* This isn't the first time a president has tried to use the space program to make himself look good. This is particularly stinging to read so shortly after the Challenger aniversary -- That mission was rushed to launch on a morning that was considered by NASA to be too cold, but no, Ronnie Reagan wanted to crow in his state of the union address we had a school teacher is space. Because of him and his ego, seven people died.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

I remember Challenger (my dad worked on space stuff for McDonnell Douglas). Richard Feynman was on the inquiry panel, wasn't he? I thought he was the one who created a storm by dumping some washers in a glass of icewater.

[yarol-2075.livejournal.com]

Yes, he was, and yes, he did.
(Btw, not be nosey, creepy, or stalkery, but what is your father's name? My family's been involved in one way or another in the Space program since Gemni (possiby Mercury, I'd have to double check that with my mom)and it's always possible, however unlikely, one of relatives might have met him.)

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Kerry Green. He worked on guidance systems--thingies called "gyros." I always got the impression it was pretty specialized. He worked for Douglas back in the 60s and early 70s.