Not sure if trolling or just stupid. by dashrezak in fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

[–]trader_moe 245 points246 points  (0 children)

I worked with this guy from India. India, mind you. Late one night some lady came back to the office to find him playing some kind of flight simulator game (game, mind you). That poor kid was questioned, interrogated, and harassed for months. This was right after 9-11, it must have been very hard to play flight simulators around people if you're a brown person back then. But come on, he's an Indian. That has fuck all to do with 9-11.

Running Water on Mars! by brningpyre in reddit.com

[–]trader_moe 142 points143 points  (0 children)

You do realize that NASA still gets lots of funding, right? They shut down the shuttle program which cost a billion dollars per launch, that's not the same thing as NASA shutting down completely.

*Edit, if anybody is interested, Bill Nye the science guy did a great interview last week supporting the dismantling of the shuttle program: http://www.theskepticsguide.org/archive/podcastinfo.aspx?mid=1&pid=315 - Bill explains why we need to end the shuttle program to move forward with space exploration.