Government work.

[Warren Stupidity]

[Missycim]

1. Well to be fair

a lot of that work was probably contracted out to private companies, just like the Moon landings were.


On a personal note can we have one event in this country just happen without mucking it up with politics? Just once I'd like that.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. No sorry wrong.

But thanks for putting the turd in the punchbowl. Those people in that picture are employed ata government funded research laboratory that is at the cutting edge of robotic technology. What JPL does, as what a lot of what similar government research labs do and have done, flows into the private sector as the technology developed by these government workers gets commercialized.

[KansDem]

4. "...government research labs do and have done..."

"...flows into the private sector..."

Behold the Internet--

The origins of the Internet reach back to research of the 1960s, commissioned by the United States government in collaboration with private commercial interests to build robust, fault-tolerant, and distributed computer networks. The funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial backbones, led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies, and the merger of many networks. The commercialization of what was by the 1990s an international network resulted in its popularization and incorporation into virtually every aspect of modern human life. As of 2011, more than 2.2 billion people – nearly a third of Earth's population — use the services of the Internet.

--more--
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

[MichiganVote]

3. Not quite. You may find the attached interesting.

http://askmagazine.nasa.gov/issues/32/32i_lessons_from_past.html

[northoftheborder]

5. good indepth article about NASA's inner workings

[MichiganVote]

8. Yes I thought so too. Esp. in our black/white thinking world.

[Chorophyll]

7. You're on a political web site here.

This is how we look at things. So you can read about this event elsewhere if you want.

[Brickbat]

10. Acknowledging and celebrating government workers is "mucking ... up with politics"?

Huh.

[Warren Stupidity]

11. yeah, it really bothers people who have bought the 'gummint worker' narrative.

massive disconnect on display.

[malaise]

6. Someone should tell Fox News

and Willard Rmoney

[Warren Stupidity]

9. The Obama campaign should have an add titled "Government Work"

And it should show the video of JPL bursting out as Curiosity landed. It should then start listing the amazing history of public sector projects that have been at the core of the technological innovations of the last 100 years.

It should end with those other 'government workers', the firemen, policemen, teachers, soldiers etc. who are manning the walls of the city, keeping us safe, teaching our children, doing all the things that keep society working, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.