MAIN ARTICLE: Astronaut’s video slams NASA attitudes.
New video approved by NASA showing a little trouble in paradise.
Poll Results: Yesterday's poll still showed strong support for Direct.
Star Trek: In the News. "A "Leverage" episode on TNT with "Star Trek" alum is a Tuesday TV pick"
Yesterday's Comments: "$120 million? Are you SHITTING ME DR. GRIFFIN? seriously, whatever he is on, he needs to share with the class" - Ferris Valyn
Today's Poll: How did NASA do in the stimulus package.
Maybe this a sign of new things happening at NASA. Never one to allow much internal debate make it out of the agency, recently that changed with NASA allowed this video out on youtube.
Astronaut’s video slams NASA attitudes
Film takes harsh look at tendencies that stifle innovation
"homemade film shot by a NASA astronaut takes a harsh look at the agency's sometimes impersonal bureaucracy in hopes of encouraging employees to keep a more open mind when confronted with dissenting opinions or new ideas.
Written and produced by four-time spaceflier Andrew Thomas, the 10-minute satirical video was posted to YouTube — with NASA's approval — after being screened at an agency leadership retreat last month. The film follows a young engineer who attempts to present an innovative idea for a spacecraft design only to be stymied at every turn by program managers."
"The point about the video is it's not fiction," Thomas told Space.com Monday. "All of those scenes are real. They've actually happened to people to various degrees."
--technical difficulties please stand by--
A great video on what the next NASA Administrator has to deal with.
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Barriers to Innovation and Inclusion
Leave your comments on various insights presented in the video and a aye or nay.
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Bill White just published a new diary, fifth in the series, on space:
Why space? A novel approach -- PVSE #5
"I am becoming increasingly persuaded that the case for funding human spaceflight is overdetermined provided we somewhat modify the Wikipedia description of that term, perhaps as follows:
Overdetermination is the idea that a single effect can be determined by multiple causes at once, any one of which - standing alone - would constitute sufficient cause for that effect.
Applied to human space flight, various reasons for funding human spaceflight can independently exist (perhaps in contradiction with one another) which yields this marvelous phrase "contradiction and over-determination" which Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser proposed as "a way of thinking about the multiple, often opposed, forces active at once in any political situation, without falling into an over-simple idea of these forces being simply contradictory" "
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Dr. Freud & Space:
Also from the wiki article was that Freud wrote "The Interpretation of Dreams that many features of dreams were usually "overdetermined," in that they were caused by multiple factors in the life of the dreamer, from the "residue of the day"
That is what was borrowed and brought into causation arguement. Another interesting read and analysis on space. I have did a bit of a shift towards more international space efforts since reading Bill's diaries.
POLL RESULTS:
Yesterday's "Which launch system should America use." gave me a couple surprises, I thought support for the Delta IV would be stronger and I didn't think a clean sheet option would get a vote. Here were the top three.
20% Direct 2.0 - NASA "rogue" engineers design.
16% Have NASA do a "clean sheet" design
12% Ares I - Current NASA design.
The last time the Ares I was polled (see "Political Cartoon: Barack as Spock.", 'Americans in Space', Dec 19, 2008) the Direct option received 22% with 32% wanting the Ares I rocket halted and a new independant review made.
STAR TREK: In the News.
A "Leverage" episode on TNT with "Star Trek" alum is a Tuesday TV pick
"Leverage"
"It's a "Star Trek" reunion tonight on this great caper drama. Jonathan Frakes directs Brent Spiner, Armin Shimerman and Kitty Swink in this..."
YESTERDAY'S COMMENTS:
"I don't want to hear anything about Griffin. Ever.
Whch is not to blame you Vlad, just to sigh hopelessly at the tendency of the media to give column inches to people whose views are now irrelevant andwill (I hope) shortly be shown to be deeply flawed.
The "news" shows do the same with Republicans generally of course. I have no idea why their views are interesting, when they have just unambiguously been rejected. Maybe it's a case of letting them keep the shovel to dig their hole a little deeper..." - joffan
"Direct 2.0 best satisfies ALL relevant stakeholders, from the local mayors who do not wish to see the STS workforce laid off to propellant depot advocates to ATK, Boeing and Lockheed (no contractor left behind) to those mindful of "The Gap" to Moon advocates to Mars advocates to ISS advocates.
Every other solution is less than optimal if we consider the contradictory and over-determined political climate NASA funding necessarily exists within." - Bill White
TODAY'S POLL:
I was going to do a poll on the video but since it didn't show up I will do one on the NASA share of the stimulus package. To little to late? Better than nothing? When the final bill gets approved there will be another poll.
Read other NASA and Space diaries on DKOS.