Check out this slick ad for Nasa.
NASA's had a big Influence on my life. I grew up idolizing their work (and still do to a certain extent). But what am I supposed to do with this? Who is this for? Lawmakers? Is this one of those weird ads for things you can't buy, like Lockheed-Martin ads that air during Meet the Press because they know most people of influence watch that show?
Not sure that I can really criticize the agency though--they used to fund a huge amount of astronomy research, and whilst I was in college in the mid-2000s the federal government took all of their basic funding money away and astro had to switch to the NSF and DOE. (The DOE funds certain kinds of dark Energy research because they don't appear to realize that dark energy doesn't have anything in common with the kind of energy that they're normally involved with. Please, nobody tell them.)
NASA is great, and the moon landing is *probably* the greatest single achievement of mankind. One of my proudest accomplishments was that I was a NASA Space Grant Fellow while I was getting my degree, just because of the association.
But NASA, say what this ad is telling me to do?
NASA's had a big Influence on my life. I grew up idolizing their work (and still do to a certain extent). But what am I supposed to do with this? Who is this for? Lawmakers? Is this one of those weird ads for things you can't buy, like Lockheed-Martin ads that air during Meet the Press because they know most people of influence watch that show?
Not sure that I can really criticize the agency though--they used to fund a huge amount of astronomy research, and whilst I was in college in the mid-2000s the federal government took all of their basic funding money away and astro had to switch to the NSF and DOE. (The DOE funds certain kinds of dark Energy research because they don't appear to realize that dark energy doesn't have anything in common with the kind of energy that they're normally involved with. Please, nobody tell them.)
NASA is great, and the moon landing is *probably* the greatest single achievement of mankind. One of my proudest accomplishments was that I was a NASA Space Grant Fellow while I was getting my degree, just because of the association.
But NASA, say what this ad is telling me to do?
This post first appeared on Topography Of Ignorance: Astrophysics, Esoterica, General Complaints, please read the originial post: here
