Foam Tiles

Today, mankind failed me.

The shuttle took off, and amidst NASA's assurances that they had improved the design for the fuel module, a sizable chunk of foam fell off. So, let me get this straight... you're putting an ancient rocket into space, after a supposed overhaul, when said overhaul accomplished nothing and wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars. So NASA, you reduced the amount of foam used on the fuel module, but is that foam stuck onto that tank any better than before? I don't fucking think so. So you've suspended your shuttle program again. I think you, your bureaucrats, and your entire fucking government should be suspended too. Put the whole lot of you out on a limb where you've left your astronauts.

The progression of science is nothing to your 90 day bean counters, and your fucking politicians. NASA, you broke your own safety rules in even launching the shuttle. Where was your supposed review? Does your people in space mean that little to you that you would send them up in a decrepit bottle rocket, made of crumbling foam and raging fire? Would you send your boys to Iraq in Seaking helecopters, armed with nothing but their vests, helmets, and piantball guns?

Would you put the future of the entire human race into a six figure budget?

Would you entrust the safety of a mission to foam tiles, when you know they fail? NASA, you've already ignored the more expensive, but ultimately more effective solutions put forward.

NASA, you nebulous concept, wrangled by the politicians and enslaved by the War President, when are you going to get your act together?

And you, the people, when are you going to see the significance of this?