slart wrote:
From The Irish Times.
You have to sympathise with Hughes. Witnessing him discuss the possibility of signing Kaka last week was like watching a garage mechanic lay out his plans for fixing a [color="Red"]NASA [/color]space station: the lips were moving and the words were flowing, but you still couldn’t shake the impression that here was a man who would much rather be tending to a clapped-out Cortina or, in his case, Blackburn Rovers.
The NASA quote of excellence is always a joke, this is an organisation that have blew up 2 shuttles, screwed up the hubble, can't land a rover on Mars, yet 30 years ago apparently with just the computer power of a calculator went to the moon loads of times like it was only a trip to Rhyl and played golf....and currently NASA are stuggling to get the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter and the Mars Sample Returner projects working, they have not been thought out and the budget is increasing daily.
NASA are clowns, hubble project alone was $660m and has cost $2,200m instead.
Any reporter who quotes NASA as excellence is talking through their uneducated backside.
If NASA was buying Kaka, they would have initially predicted a bid of $50m and it would have been a project delayed for 10-20 years which eventually would have cost about $300m and he Kaka would be in his 40's.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-04zh.html