georion23

no, we must NOT. ya know, i'm all for going back to the moon. i think it's all fine and good. as long as they do it with human spaceflight money. which they were for awhile till they ran out and then started taking money away from science so it's put a bunch of people out of work that have the jobs i want. making it almost impossible for grad students, post-docs, and research scientists to get grants, even the ones with automatic renewals. no grants = no paychecks = a lot of very smart people doing very important work out of jobs because bush wants to go back to the moon. i want to know who these 15 scientists on this panel are because i know for damn sure that they do not speak for the scientific community as a whole. there is a very small percentage of scientists who think what the current administration is doing with the budget is fine because they're the ones who will be working on the moon stuff. the rest of the community is outraged and is demanding change. in the form of letters and petitions and speaking out at hearings. i probably get one email a week about something else nasa has done to our budget and what we can do to fight it. so no. i don't think we MUST do anything regarding going back to the moon.