Actually, the reason why the shuttle isn't flying is because of Al Gore.
Good ole Greenee Al forced NASA to change the glue used on the tiles.

It wasn't qualified like the other and it failed catastrophically. Evey
flight after that they had tile troubles. Fixed them in space and came
home. The danger was to great and the next generation machine was
slowed. The Space budget plummeted.

Martin

On 9/5/2015 2:48 PM, AhmRI.˜¢_ M°i°g°h°t°y ˜® W°a°n°n°a°b°e _˜¢.aastg wrote:
deep wrote on 05/09/2015 15:32:
On Sat, 05 Sep 2015 12:07:09 -0700, Winston_Smith
wrote:

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:19:07 -0400, Ed Huntress wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 07:47:01 -0600, deep wrote:

Keeping kids stupid is the primary goal of conservatives.


It's not just Texas. You'd probably get similar results (in fact, this
interview shtick has been pulled many times, and the results tend to
be similar) almost anywhere in the country.

Why? We've so denigrated history, geography and the rest of the
liberal arts -- thank you STEM and "Common Core" -- that kids don't
even pay attention to them anymore.

I agree and bemoan the fall of the "liberal education" that
paleo-conservatives have always supported.

Yet the libs tend to support common core and the Neocons, who deep
says want to keep kids ignorant, tend to oppose it. Curious reversal
of positions, no ?

You don't like common core? Texas opposed it. I've never heard
anything negative about it except fundies crying about how it's more
state intrusion in parent's right to deprive their children of an
education. Glancing down the list it's pretty obvious the blue
states are adopting it, and the red states are either rejecting it or
watering it down as much as possible.

The Nazi rocket scientists you swiped from Hitler to for NASA are dying
off. The young Americans are too dumbed down to know Math and Science.
You have to pay the Russians for rockets rides to and from the
International Space Station.

Wasn't Dubya a born-again Christian? The majority of Americans still
believe the Earth is only 6000 years old. I weep for you.