Re^10: IT decisions are driven by business needs

I think NASA is a brilliant organisation. That I might have had a chance to work there, is one of very few reasons I might have wished to have grown up in the US rather than the UK.

However, if you see it's relationship with the "US government" as being in anyway analogous to the relationship between a 'normal' business and either it's customers or shareholders, then I think you are politically very naive.

For reference: An article from 2005 by David Black, the current chair of the American Astronomical Society. An Impending Crisis for NASA Science

Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.

"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".

In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.

"Too many [] have been sedated by an oppressive environment of political correctness and risk aversion."

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