Bill Proenza lost his bid to change the National Hurricane Center today and Mr Rappaport will quitely bury any hope of change for this dinosaur of an agency, and NASA can go back to planning their next satellite to look at Mars weather; after all who needs new earth satellites.
I wrote a diary on July 12, 2005 that complained about the storm reporting that went on the night before. On that day the storm had moved inland and all the news media reported it was headed for Memphis when in fact the worst of the cell was headed to Nashville and the media had not updated anything after about 11:45pm. It's not unusual down South to see the Mayor of Panama City or some other dude on TV do a pitch for FEMA help while inland we're still wondering if our backside is on the front line and if the storm is now headed for us. It seems to me weather media isn't worth watching after any storm passes the Coast and the only way to know for sure inland about a storm path is to go to real time radar and satellite. That's where NASA comes in and that's when poor Proenza lost his job.
If you think NASA is this big fuzzy, loveable, stuffed bear then you've seen too much of NASA's Disney styled propaganda. The fact is that people like Bill Proenza and Lisa Nowak who become an embarrassment to NASA or point out that NASA is spending on things that are of little or no use to the public and are taking away from the public good soon find they are out of work.
NASA is determined to do a one-off Manned Mars Mission no matter what it cost and the new NASA head of missions, Alan Stern, gave a great talk before a sub-committee of Congress in which he outlined plans for planning the committee he is setting up to plan for the next set of NASA missions. Are you confused yet? Well, don't worry Dr. Stern has written almost as many science papers as Einstein so we're in good hands, but if you use even one of Dr Stern's critera, that he outlined in his talk to Congress, a Manned Mars Mission will never happen. No matter, NASA Mars boys need to know the weather on Mars a lot more than a few hicks inland need to have a working expensive weather satellite.
Somebody better tell Mr wrap-it-up Rappaport not to bring up any new satellites and somebody needs to tell the astronauts if you go crazy and wear a diaper, NASA will cut them off at the knees. On the other hand if you're a good NASA scientist you can do anything or nothing just as long as it's a minimum of 350% over budget.
By the way, don't plan any global warming projects that's as bad as going crazy and wearing a diaper and you know you can't help those kind of employees no matter how long they've worked for you or what they've done for you. An embarrassement must go: no company mental help allowed.
Are you feeling warm and fuzzy yet?