The DH is working on a paper detailing the "Strategic Vision" of various US leaders. Compare and contrast:
We do not know where this journey will end, yet we know this: human beings are headed into the cosmos.
I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.
One of these is from a Kennedy speech, and one is from a GWB speech. Can you guess which is which?
One states that he doesn't know where his vision will take us, and uses general terms like "cosmos." The other specifies who, what, when, where, and includes the follow-on "returning him safely to the Earth."
(Both are from speeches that detail the steps; Kennedy's asks Congress for specific monetary amounts and Bush's tells what equipment we'll have by certain years).
tells what equipment we'll have by certain years
At which point every individual who has ever been involved in an engineering project of such scale and political dictate starts laughing and laughing and laughing, trying somewhat hysterically to dig up the stated timelines of past projects to compare with their reality.
And if they are in NASA of today, they just hit their head on a cabinet, were buried in a pile of bids, workorders authorization forms, and budget projections. They lost consciousness.
I think Hec is right about SM2. When I saw it I'd only read one comic in fifteen years, though, and it's Gotham Central(police procedural + Batman= Best Thing Ever) so maybe that colored my impressions.
I haven't seen anything to beat it yet, though I tend to count X2as a film about the disability experience. With more fighting.
Hey!
I'm fond of the people who do the work of NASA, but nsm HQ, which is a political bureaucracy. It does its best to make me a bitter, bitter woman.
One states that he doesn't know where his vision will take us, and uses general terms like "cosmos."
I hadn't thought of it like that, but that's totally the problem with the War On Terror -- I'm sorry, I mean the Global Struggle Against Extremism.
Global Struggle Against (Violent) Extremism
And what kind of crappy acronym is this anyway? They should've gone with the Global Rumble Against Violent Extremism.
No one ever asks me.
Man, I wish we had a rumble. That would be so hot.
Global Struggle Against Evildoers Who Inhibit the March of Freedom.
