What is amazing is that they missed all the real causes of Rome's decline, the Welfare state policies, the over taxation, the over expansion of the military. My guess is this true for all these empires.

http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files...

http://www.alternet.org/economy/our-repu...

http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/03-30...

We let them invest money we loaned them in our assets hoping they would be like Japan and become our friends. LOL Now we learn of their plan to collapse Fanny and Freddie in 2008.

I am still confused - how does the "National Aeronautics and Space Agency" become authorities on sociological civilization studies? Isn't that just a tad, like 99% tad, away from their prime mission of AERONAUTICS and SPACE?

They do apparently perform the function of giving the Russians yet another thing to degrade us to the world over. What I don't get - they were, for all intents and purposes, bankrupt and washed up in the early 1990's... how could we have fallen so far?

Well, according to this government study, it will be the elites that will destroy civilization. So, for the benefit of the civilization and out of self-preservation, Washington, D.C., needs to be eliminated. Let's hope that those elite parasites are altruistic and will do it themselves, but I'm afraid of running out of breath waiting for that change to happen...

unfortunately the nasa people are not talking to the astronauts. I spoke with one at great length about 1991, Joe Engel. he said that life in space was so far away that he couldn't imagine it. without gravity your muscle structure deteriorates, bone mass deteriorates in essence your body breaks down. if the wealthy of the world want to live up there let them go for it.

If Obama and his handlers have the intent of
destroying America (fundamentally transform it)
I do not think they are missing one trick for all
they do is detrimental to freedom, capitalism and
what used to be 'the American way'. It is just
hard for people to fathom that such actions can
be taken on purpose, and that they can get away
with it for so long. But too many are involved,
and that goes for most of Congress and those
of We The People now living on handouts of
various sorts. What a mess !

Since the head of NASA is an Obama worshipper NASA just parrots the company line about wealth redistribution and rich people in general.

In any field where reality rules NASA might find out that political correctness will NOT get a rocket to function properly, a space ship to work correctly or much else of any value to happen. Hopefully Obama himself will actually ride in one of the "new" inspired designs by his "everyone is equal" workforce.

When will this dope and his appointees JUST GO AWAY?

I think we need fear the approach of government-induced "Soylent Green" in our future than disaster from global warming.
Was it not NASA which brought the flawed study to Congress which resulted in the banning of freon, then said oops.
Still, the eternal elephant in the room - why are they not talking about climate change induced by them via HAARP and HAMP?

One can only hope...

Of course, Ayn Rand wouldn't approve of NASA, but the biggest reason why NASA's budget withered over the last few years is captured by wiggys. Until my students can solve the relationship between shear stress, magnetic fields (including gravity), and both bone and muscle growth, manned space travel will not happen. The astronauts still lose 1% of bone mass per month. I actually talk about this subject in my Biomaterials and Tissue Engg. class on the night of 4/23. After one of my students gives me the audio tape, I will be glad to let this group download that.

Interestingly, the only part of government not to grow under Obama is NASA. He came to my campus at Florida Tech during the 2008 campaign and had more boos than cheers.

Priceless.

My sister, who lives near DC, and I have discussed the possibility of DC being nuked. I can't say that I would cry very much if it were nuked. I certainly am not going to do it, but ...

The only global warming coming from Al Gore is coming from his mouth. That's right. It emits carbon dioxide. Perhaps he can be legislated out of existence.

AOL would be the mother, inasmuch as they gobbled up Compuserve. I was the first person in my county on Compuserve back in 1985. I made a killing on AOL stock back in the 1990's. That's how I am able to afford to take my professorship at Florida Tech (my shrug job) instead of getting paid much more in industry or continuing my prior companies.

True. The first communications were landline, but the NASA engineers complained loudly enough that they actually started a company called Radiation, Inc. (now Harris Corporation) to address that. That same year Radiation's founder and Jerry Keuper, my university's (Florida Tech's) first president had dinner. The waitress thought that their idea for Florida Tech was such a great idea that she donated the tip money (37 cents) to be our initial endowment. That was how Florida Tech was founded - for 37 cents by two producers and a philanthropic waitress. As Radiation (now Harris) started the non-landline satellite communication business, I stand by my earlier assertion that work for NASA ultimately resulted in the Internet. It certainly didn't happen overnight, but without the need to wirelessly communicate with satellites, there would be no Internet. I will grant that Harris (and Radiation) did plenty of government contract work along the way, so the history is not as clean as Ayn Rand would have liked.

The entire premise of the article is based on the development of a working model of Psychohistory which was a fictional mathematical function derived by Isaac Asimov. I've never read a bigger load of malarkey and I read a LOT of Sci-fi, Fantasy & Fiction !