quote:He works at Publix Super Market at Hampton Cove.
Makes sense.
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Well, my first reaction was also a big "WTF?" that scared both my cats sleeping in my room.
But upon consideration, funding NASA isn't as bad a cause as some other things that this country's taxes are used for. But then, I'm not that happy with the current NASA management either.
Still, I agree that this candidate must be a wacko. (Working in a supermarket? That's pretty funny...)
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Probably fund NASA for a couple of years and then get filtered into the DoD's budget...
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Assuming that NASA as a whole doesn't get folded into the DoD as well...seeing where the world is heading, its not that absurd a possibility.
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The new guy seems intent on making it into the PR arm of DoD. "Oh! Look! We're sending teachers into space!"
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LOL! That's the funniest thing I've seen since my vitsa was attacked by bannana birds! ~Rhi'a
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1%? I don't know exactly how much money is involved in the entire SF-industry, but I don't think that one percent of that will be a very significant contribution to NASA.
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If there are ten million sci-fi fans in the US, and they all spend at least ten dollars in a year on sci-fi related merchandise (Star Wars crap, Star Trek crap, ID4 crap, whatever), then NASA gets a million bucks.
Not much, true, but ... that's a conservative estimate of how much a sci-fi fan spends in a year on sci-fi crap.
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