Sad news to me. When I was 7 or 8, I wrote to NASA to send me everything they had on space, planets, black holes, UFOs, project Blue Book; so you see a FOIA request is not that strange a concept to me. Those were the days, the good old days, when federal agencies were responsive to the public. This was a time when NASA had a public mandate that included studying the earth itself, deleted by Bush political cronies to obscure the impact of global warming and divert costs to future generations. This was a time when John F. Kennedy was sending men to the moon, and he meant it, really! He was no George Bush with a pie in the sky Mars shot which distracts. Instead of vainly sending humans to the surface of Mars at great cost, consider all the good cheap missions which would increase our understanding of the universe; but that would pull back the curtain enough it upsets the right wing no nothings that run the White House.
The US has slipped to seventh on the list of most innovative countries in a report from the World Economic Forum. This should alarm business people as well as environmentalists; and concern everyone else in between.
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