http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3529 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3529&cpage=1#comment-1356 Redshift Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:31:21 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3529#comment-1356 Personally, I think it is actually Bush's "vision" in that he's using it as a cover to implement Rumsfeld's oft-stated desire to militarize space. I recognize I don't have any actual evidence for this, but considering the nature of this administration, I'm suspicious that there's something covert going on if they trumpet something loudly and then stop *talking* about it when the PR side isn't well received, but continue pushing it. (It's amazing the number of people I talk to who think the Mars mission was just a Kennedyesque blue-sky in a speech that has since been dropped, and have no idea that it's been the driving policy ever since, gutting scientific research as it goes.) Personally, I think it is actually Bush’s “vision” in that he’s using it as a cover to implement Rumsfeld’s oft-stated desire to militarize space. I recognize I don’t have any actual evidence for this, but considering the nature of this administration, I’m suspicious that there’s something covert going on if they trumpet something loudly and then stop *talking* about it when the PR side isn’t well received, but continue pushing it. (It’s amazing the number of people I talk to who think the Mars mission was just a Kennedyesque blue-sky in a speech that has since been dropped, and have no idea that it’s been the driving policy ever since, gutting scientific research as it goes.)

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