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Topic: Where to now? Where should NASA go to next?
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Aztecdoug
Member Posts: 1405
From: Huntington Beach
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 03-31-2010 08:46 AM
   
The relationship between NASA and the auto industry is not really cut and dry anymore. GM is temporarily majority owned by the United States Treasury. NASA is part of that same government.The conspiracy theory side of me sees NASA as GM's partner to a degree. Would it not be to the owners of GM's benefit for the competition to be portrayed in an unfavorable light? We have entered into an ambiguous area now as the US government expands its role in the economy. There is now potential to see things as different shades of gray is all I would like to point out. Nothing can be simple anymore. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 50516
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-31-2010 02:06 PM
Perhaps you're being facetious Doug, but that's a bit much when there's a much simpler explanation: the nation is tapping into its best minds to help resolve an issue that is of a personal concern to many Americans. Consider it a space-spinoff if you must, but this is hardly unusual. NASA has helped numerous organizations outside the world of space exploration to address safety concerns, from NASCAR to natural disaster response agencies. |
mikej
Member Posts: 483
From: Germantown, WI USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 03-31-2010 02:50 PM
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has used Goddard Space Flight Center's centrifuge to evaluate the safety of SUVs (when they're prone to tip over); clicking the second image on the page opens up a video of such a test. |
Aztecdoug
Member Posts: 1405
From: Huntington Beach
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 03-31-2010 04:09 PM
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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
Perhaps you're being facetious Doug, but that's a bit much when there's a much simpler explanation: the nation is tapping into its best minds to help resolve an issue that is of a personal concern to many Americans.
Robert, both you an I know that such a conspiracy is pretty far fetched. That is our viewpoint as Americans. But I am curious how it may be viewed by our ISS partner Japan? Personally I don't buy into much of the conspiracy stuff like the birthers, Loch Ness Monsters, Fake Moon Landings and a huge crowd of Cubans, Russians and Mobsters on the grassy knoll in Dallas back in Nov. 1963. I am just saying there is now a crack for the crackpots to have a go. |
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