Political Astronauts

The shuttle heads towards home this week. I truly hope they have no problems and make a completely normal landing. However, they cannot let a day go by without the environmental loonies making an appearance. For example, when Commander Eileen Collins looked out her window and saw this view:


She, as I'm sure all of you can tell, immediately noticed erosion. She complained about misuse of the earth by spotting erosion, deforestation, and an atmosphere that's as thin as an eggshell, and that we only have a little air that needs to be protected.

What a damn load. That's a horrible abuse of one's position to put forward their own personal political agenda. It truly reduces my respect for that astronaut.

Posted by: Ogre at 09:01 AM

Comments

1 And just how do we protect the air, and keep the atmosphere from getting thinner?

The only way I can think of is to stop sending idiots like this into space, where the oxygen that the shuttle's engines needs to burn basically get blow out into space.

Besides that, we could combine the oxygen with carbon to make carbon dioxyde, but it isn't going anywhere.

Posted by: Echo Zoe at August 08, 2005 11:43 AM (K+h36)

2 Good idea! Tell this irresponsible lunatic to stop breathing and using up so much of our "limited" air.

Posted by: Ogre at August 08, 2005 11:58 AM (/k+l4)

3 What's political about observing facts?

The picture you posted is not the image she was referring to. Go to NASA.gov and look through images of earth from space that'll back up everything she says.

Posted by: Randy Case at August 08, 2005 04:03 PM (LQJdM)

4 Yeah, shame on that astronaut for paying attention to science!

Posted by: BRD at August 08, 2005 06:18 PM (Eo+Qu)

5 I'm sure you meant, BRD, shame on that astronaut for trying to support a nonsense political agenda with almost no real evidence from factual science. It's ok, it was probably just a typo.

Posted by: Ogre at August 08, 2005 06:39 PM (L0IGK)

6 I am deeply troubled by someone calling herself BRD. It's too close to birdwoman.

Too darn bad I didn't copyright.

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Posted by: birdwoman at August 08, 2005 06:41 PM (Sc2Wh)

7 Only costs about $2.99 to file a copyright with the US Copyright office...

Posted by: Ogre at August 08, 2005 06:56 PM (L0IGK)






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