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They did the same thing with the "life from Mars" thing a few years ago. It's a way of attracting attention in order to raise money.
by Estragon 16y ago
They did the same thing with the "life from Mars" thing a few years ago. It's a way of attracting attention in order to raise money.
- jacquesm 16y agoJudging by how that worked out for them they ought to have known better. You can only cry wolf so many times before you are labeled the village idiot, too bad for you if the wolf eventually shows up and nobody believes you due to 'past performance'.
- waterlesscloud 16y agoI'm a big NASA supporter, but this whole episode has made me think they deserve a little less funding. From the way they handled the whole thing from the start with the "aliens, but living here" spin to finding out the results aren't all that solid, it seems they need to clean some house.
- nkassis 16y agoI don't know, it won't make a change to the way the place is administered to reduce the budget, it's mostly going to affect the amount of money scientist can use to advance their research. Making the quality slowly decline more. Restructuring NASA is a hard problem maybe even impossible. But I do think it's still producing good enough stuff that removing it would be a mistake. I'm a believer in public research. It has produce some incredible benefits to society in the 20th century and hopefully will continue in the 21st.