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mises
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 Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:01 am Post subject: NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World |
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/05/nasa-chief-frontier-better-relations-muslims/
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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.
"When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," Bolden said in the interview.
The NASA administrator was in the Middle East last month marking the one-year anniversary since Obama delivered an address to Muslim nations in Cairo. Bolden spoke in June at the American University in Cairo -- in his interview with Al Jazeera, he described space travel as an international collaboration of which Muslim nations must be a part.
"It is a matter of trying to reach out and get the best of all worlds, if you will, and there is much to be gained by drawing in the contributions that are possible from the Muslim (nations)," he said. He held up the International Space Station as a model, praising the contributions there from the Russians and the Chinese.
However, Bolden denied the suggestion that he was on a diplomatic mission -- in a distinctly non-diplomatic role.
"Not at all. It's not a diplomatic anything," he said.
He said the United States is not going to travel beyond low-Earth orbit on its own and that no country is going to make it to Mars without international help.
Bolden has faced criticism this year for overseeing the cancellation of the agency's Constellation program, which was building new rockets and spaceships capable of returning astronauts to the moon. Stressing the importance of international cooperation in future missions, Bolden told Al Jazeera that the moon, Mars and asteroids are still planned destinations for NASA. |
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JMO
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:07 am Post subject: |
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| Translation : NASA need money and partners. |
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Leon
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:32 am Post subject: |
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| I'm not sure about the reaching out specifically to Muslim nations, but it makes sense to me that NASA would be actively involved in international relations as space is a common resource, as well as things like the international space station. What will be really interesting is if in the future other planets and moons are developed how the land will be claimed, but that is still quite a ways off. |
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bigverne
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering
Despite the fact that such a contribution has been grossly exaggerated, what have been Islam's contributions since this bygone golden age? However, more importantly why does the President of the US think it should be a policy of NASA to build up the fragile self-esteem of Muslims? |
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Koveras
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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| JMO wrote: |
| Translation : NASA need money and partners. |
NASA is singular. |
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JMO
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| You is pedantic. |
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lithium
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Shameful....this President is tearing down this country. November will finally bring some restraint to this regime. |
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Koveras
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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| JMO wrote: |
| You is pedantic. |
In this case a better word would be punctilious. |
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mises
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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| bigverne wrote: |
he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering
Despite the fact that such a contribution has been grossly exaggerated, what have been Islam's contributions since this bygone golden age? However, more importantly why does the President of the US think it should be a policy of NASA to build up the fragile self-esteem of Muslims? |
The self esteem thing is to be expected from a guy like Obama. He is the perfect example of liberal anti-thought. They're creationists. People who think like Obama believe that if you make muslims like themselves and feel proud they'll all of a sudden start winning the Nobel in chemistry. This is why every ghetto in America is covered in paintings of MLK. If you paint a picture the kids will become Big Law lawyers. It is creationism. I expect it. It has a very short shelf life.
If he wants them to like him he should stop killing them. That's the point. I don't believe Obama is all that bright (where are his Harvard/Occidental and Columbia grades?) but he isn't so dumb as to think muslims don't like us because they don't like themselves. |
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The Happy Warrior
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| Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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| mises wrote: |
| bigverne wrote: |
he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering
Despite the fact that such a contribution has been grossly exaggerated, what have been Islam's contributions since this bygone golden age? However, more importantly why does the President of the US think it should be a policy of NASA to build up the fragile self-esteem of Muslims? |
The self esteem thing is to be expected from a guy like Obama. He is the perfect example of liberal anti-thought. They're creationists. People who think like Obama believe that if you make muslims like themselves and feel proud they'll all of a sudden start winning the Nobel in chemistry. This is why every ghetto in America is covered in paintings of MLK. If you paint a picture the kids will become Big Law lawyers. It is creationism. I expect it. It has a very short shelf life.
If he wants them to like him he should stop killing them. That's the point. I don't believe Obama is all that bright (where are his Harvard/Occidental and Columbia grades?) but he isn't so dumb as to think muslims don't like us because they don't like themselves. |
It would be strange if Obama made it as chief editor of the Harvard Law Review and was any lower than the top 10% of the class. Soon after he became editor, it would be strange if his grades hadn't deteriorated.
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Obama spends 50 to 60 hours each week on law review business. The full-time volunteer job leaves little time for an additional 12 hours of class, plus homework. When it comes to choosing between the two, as it often does, Obama usually misses class. |
This is a little off-topic, but I can't help but post it.
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Yet some of Obama's peers question the motives of this second-year law student. They find it puzzling that despite Obama's openly progressive views on social issues, he has also won support from staunch conservatives. Ironically, he has come under the most criticism from fellow black students for being too conciliatory toward conservatives and not choosing more blacks to other top positions on the law review.
"He's willing to talk to them (the conservatives) and he has a grasp of where they are coming from, which is something a lot of blacks don't have and don't care to have," said Christine Lee, a second-year law student who is black. "His election was significant at the time, but now it's meaningless because he's becoming just like all the others (in the Establishment)." |
Back on point, this Bolden guy sounds a little off. I have to agree with mises, there's an aura of the liberal multi-cult about him. |
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