Comments on: Needless Sideshows http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/01/06/needless-sideshows/ Melding fiction and science in life and on paper Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:15:08 +0000 http://www.today.com/version-2.3.1 By: attygnorris http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/01/06/needless-sideshows/#comment-1181 attygnorris Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:37:53 +0000 http://rocketscientist.today.com/2009/01/06/needless-sideshows/#comment-1181 "Am I hopeless naive to think a job with as much importance and that requires so much technical and political expertise as NASA administrator be based on merit alone? That one’s record in the job, how well one performed the myriad impossible tasks that face a NASA administrator, be the one and only gauge necessary to retain or lose a job?" Not at all. I agree this should be how things work BUT, as you already know (and this is probably why you hate politics), there is always a popularity/ likability/put-a-spin-on-everything-so-it-favors-you factor, especially with something as big as NASA. It's the unfortunate, but common way of the world. I love it when bloggers are passionate about what they are writing about. You can tell this has you stirred up today. LOL BTW, I don't know how the "Ask a Rocket Scientist" thing is supposed to go, but I have a question. I'd like to know what you think of the Big Bang Theory. Is it possible that Creationists and Evolutionists are both accurate? Is it possible that a spiritual being caused a bang in the atmosphere to make chaos orderly? Davida “Am I hopeless naive to think a job with as much importance and that requires so much technical and political expertise as NASA administrator be based on merit alone? That one’s record in the job, how well one performed the myriad impossible tasks that face a NASA administrator, be the one and only gauge necessary to retain or lose a job?”

Not at all. I agree this should be how things work BUT, as you already know (and this is probably why you hate politics), there is always a popularity/ likability/put-a-spin-on-everything-so-it-favors-you factor, especially with something as big as NASA. It’s the unfortunate, but common way of the world.

I love it when bloggers are passionate about what they are writing about. You can tell this has you stirred up today. LOL

BTW, I don’t know how the “Ask a Rocket Scientist” thing is supposed to go, but I have a question. I’d like to know what you think of the Big Bang Theory. Is it possible that Creationists and Evolutionists are both accurate? Is it possible that a spiritual being caused a bang in the atmosphere to make chaos orderly?

Davida

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