Re: Excess astronauts -- what must be done

digicross_at_hotmail.com
Date: 03/08/05 

Date: 8 Mar 2005 08:40:36 -0800

The problem of being rational is how you define rationality and what
you're taught is rational.

An airliner make a curved route on the traditional flat map, which make
some people wondering on why the pilots are not being rational by
taking a 'straight' line which is the shortest distance. Of course,
they're forgeting the fact that the Earth is a sphere.

The pilots are rational, only that they are complying to a 3D point of
view.

There are reasons on why N.A.S.A. behaves they way they are.

If one don't understand it after decades of experiences, either one
doesn't have the brain power to compute it or one is being deceptive.

As for the numbers of astronauts.

I think that it's the experiments conducted on them will be quite
useful, only to whom?

Besides, there's no downer in the astronauts part, being part of
N.A.S.A. would look good in their resume, eventhough they never go into
orbit.

As for the last year or two of shuttle missions.

That assuming that there would be anymore shuttle flights at all.

Though yes, if there's further shuttle flights. Chances are in the last
year of the shuttle flights, the shuttle will be flown mostly by people
from the military, due the experiences they got, and their ability to
take command and obey them.

But then again, that's the population of the crew of STS-107. 6
military officers out of 7.

Yep, it's over.