Obama’s NASA Chief: Muslim Outreach is My Foremost Mission (Yes, Obama is not a Muslim /Sarc)
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his “foremost” mission as the head of America’s space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.
Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA’s orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel.
“When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — he charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering,” Bolden said in the interview.
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Project 4: Space Camel
The ability of camels to survive in a hostile environment is well known. Camels have survived deserts, Moroccan bazaars and owners who put them in beauty contests. Perhaps they can also survive the harsh rigors of space.
Because we no longer have a spacecraft (thanks for that by the way, because why would a space program need one of those anyway) and no way of getting one, we might as well try camels. Why camels? Because they meet both your major priorities, engaging the Muslim world, and using “Clean Energy”. And there’s nothing cleaner than a camel. At least nothing outside a cesspool or rotting sewage.
Our plan is simple. We’re going to take a bunch of camels. Get very drunk. Stick the camels in a catapult, and scribble some arabic numerals in a notebook. Do some algebra, and invite Muslims to participate in this new wonderful race to space. Then we’re going to let the camels fly.
Honestly we don’t know where the camels will land. They might land in deserted areas. They might land on houses or people. They might land on the White House. They might land on the moon. We just don’t know! That’s because due to your budget cuts, we can no longer afford calculators. Instead we’re going to have our Muslim colleagues do the math for us on an abacus. Their advanced knowledge of science will surely see us through.
And frankly if you’re going to engage children with the wonders of space, nothing will do it half as well as a shrieking camel flying through the sky.
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