07-27-2007, 04:23 PM
first the astronaut diapers. . .now this. . .NASA is messed up, non?
July 27, 2007, 11:12 am
Woes Enough to Drive NASA to Drink
Shana Dale has an unenviable job to do this afternoon: Standing before the TV cameras and reporters and explaining how it was that American astronauts have flown while drunk.
It’s been an embarrassing couple of days for NASA, and the snockered rocket jockeys ain’t the half of it. The agency also had to announce that somebody had deliberately sabotaged a computer meant for use on the shuttle, and not even by some clever software hack: evidently the unnamed miscreant just cut a couple of wires.
At least NASA knew where that computer was: a Congressional report this week said that the some $94 million worth of the agency’s computers, office equipment and supplies had been lost over the last decade because of sloppy administration — and that when NASA was made aware of the problem five years ago, they loosened their rules instead of tightening them.
(Weirdly, the report cites one case of an employee who accounted for a missing laptop computer assigned to him by claiming that it had actually been sent up on the shuttle, broken down and been ejected to burn up in the atmosphere — and his bosses apparently bought the story.). . .
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July 27, 2007, 11:12 am
Woes Enough to Drive NASA to Drink
Shana Dale has an unenviable job to do this afternoon: Standing before the TV cameras and reporters and explaining how it was that American astronauts have flown while drunk.
It’s been an embarrassing couple of days for NASA, and the snockered rocket jockeys ain’t the half of it. The agency also had to announce that somebody had deliberately sabotaged a computer meant for use on the shuttle, and not even by some clever software hack: evidently the unnamed miscreant just cut a couple of wires.
At least NASA knew where that computer was: a Congressional report this week said that the some $94 million worth of the agency’s computers, office equipment and supplies had been lost over the last decade because of sloppy administration — and that when NASA was made aware of the problem five years ago, they loosened their rules instead of tightening them.
(Weirdly, the report cites one case of an employee who accounted for a missing laptop computer assigned to him by claiming that it had actually been sent up on the shuttle, broken down and been ejected to burn up in the atmosphere — and his bosses apparently bought the story.). . .
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