Re: NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer

On Nov 25, 1:00 pm, Neil Rieck <n.ri...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 21, 8:36 pm, Cydrome Leader <prese...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





Neil Rieck <n.ri...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer

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I can't argue with anything you just said (typed). Previously NASA was
primarily an organization of technicians, engineers, and scientists.
Today it's an organization of bureaucrats and politicians.

Question: "If we can land on the moon then why can't we land on the
moon?"


I hope people don't take my previous comments the wrong way. Being a
child of the 1950s made me a part of the sputnik craze along with the
subsequent American manned landings on the moon. But NASA has changed
and it seems to me that if it weren't for JPL, that there wouldn't be
much science at all in the American space program. Also, I recently
heard a story on NPR (thank god for Sirius satelite radio)...

http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200711166
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16343713&ft=1&f=5

....in which I heard the horrifying tale about Nixon getting rid of the
position of "Presidential Science Advisor" and how it took an act of
congress to get it restored. Even still, the president is not required
to take advice from the science advisor as we all learned in 2004 when
we learned that whitehouse staff were editing documents from NASA,
NOAA, etc.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/
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