This morning’s St. Petersburg Times ran a gut-wrenching story on the death of the United States Space Program. The United States was a proud and awesome country…once. Read the story and feel the pride and genius and dedication and commitment and hard work that was our space program. And now it’s gone. Dead. Over.
Now just think about how insane and stupid this whole country is. We spent bajillions on wars all around the world. We’ve carpet bombed entire regions, killed millions of people….and for what? What did we accomplish with all of that? And why? And now that the boys and girls are coming home, what will become of them? What will these combat trained warriors do to keep themselves occupied?
But back to the space program…once the buildings are shuttered. Once the machines and the electronics are mothballed….they cannot be restarted.
Is it just utter, systemic, long term stupidity from our “leaders” going back at least a decade or is this all something worse? As horrific as this thought must be, I almost hope that there is at least some plan in the works here…but then again….nothing seems to make sense anymore.
