Just a heads up: I'm gonna have a one of my inventions turned up full blast and pointed at you while you're here.
I'll be honest, I'm throwing science at the wall here to see what sticks.
No idea what it'll do. Probably nothing. Best-case scenario, you might get some superpowers. Worst case, some tumors, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
I recently recieved an email and a phone-call from my work (JSC), and as it turns out, the wonderfully benevolent government of the United States has decided to drastically cut-back on our Nation's Space Program (NASA). As such, they're laying off somewhere between 2,000 and 8,000 people, including Recent Employees like myself, in addition to cutting back several key NASA programs, such as the development of the SLS.
That said, I'll finish up the week at the center, along with the rest of the research team, and then I'm out of a Job.
I've already started applying to industries in the private sector, such as Lockheed, Boeing and SpaceX, but jobs are hard to come by, as many of you know.
Why this journal? Just to update a few people (you know who you are), and to say this:
2012 NASA budget = $12.33 billion
2012 Military Budget = $2.03 trillion
I realize space exploration, science and intelligence in general are all out of fashion these days. Most people I talk to seem to think it's a waste of money. But being a youthful idealist, I remember when I was a kid, I fully expected us to go on to sending manned missions to Mars and beyond by now. The robot ships and rovers are nice to see, but I wish our species had retained it's drive for ambitious human exploration. And I do understand that Empire-building and Oil-wars are back in fashion, and that the military budget creates lots of jobs and serves it's function in mineral rights acquisition, etc., but when I see it beside the puny amount spent on NASA, it just makes me sad.
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