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Glenn's space trip a rip-off
To the editor, I have some serious complaints about the nature of John Glenn's recent trip to the stars. Firstly, It's a crying shame that our government can't find enough money to fund schools with paper and pencils, but they can come up with a scheme and the dime to send an old geezer like John Glenn into orbit yet another time. Secondly, it's dammed shabby propaganda. They would have done better to hold a lottery and send any ol' taxpaying yokel up there, that is something I would have paid to see, paid to participate in, and been at least been interested in. Thirdly, hasn't John Glenn had his fifteen minutes of fame? The man's name has been immortalized, it's in every history book. Isn't that enough? Couldn't we find a more deserving and qualified candidate? Like say...ANYBODY? Also, isn't the whole thing a great big scientific rip-off? I seriously doubt the real scientific merit of measuring John's bone density and sense of balance in space. There are plenty more studies to benefit the elderly, which could have been pulled-off for half the cost down here on terra firma. And another thing, I am sick and tired of viewing the regurgitated remains of every baby-boomer's over-dramatized dream from the past. Woodstock is over...the 60s are over... get a clue. Lastly, if we are going to waste huge sums of money on worthless scientific propaganda aimed at bolstering a white elephant like NASA, then couldn't we have sent a Democrat?
Michael Urena |
