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They hide the scientific discoveries. Haven’t you seen Transformers.
1st
And Independence Day!
explosions are cool
I know, right!
As a scientist and general science enthusiast, I find the amount of truth in this graph depressing.
If they would only make their photo’s from hubble and other shots easier to find to the public, I’d be more interested. As it is, they are probably sitting on terabytes of awesome pictures and not sharing. Jerks.
http://hubblesite.org
Pictures are proprietary to the proposal initiator for a year at most, then the data are public. They’re your tax dollars after all. In most pictures the colors aren’t real anyways…
True, in most images the colors are representations of mineral abundances,
temperatures, or simply used to enhance contrast. There are some images in true color while in others the RGB channels are used for x-ray, IR, or UV wavelengths.
""At any rate, if you really want to know what the space sector is doing without paying for a subscription to Icarus or JGR Planets you can browse science sites like http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/
There are also some great blogs out there… like:
http://www.martianchronicles.wordpress.com
And if you like getting many sides of the story, there’s always:
http://www.nasawatch.com/
(The byline should be “a battle in every comment space”, but still… I always learn something.)
There’s NASA, always keeping the black holes down.
There’s actually a website, I wish I had the address that has every picture taken by Hubble.
Great concept, not thrilled with the delivery.
There should be a 20% bar for “Took Neat Picture with the Hubble”
Hubble has been down. They fixed it. What they did was turn it off and turn it back on. Hell my grandma would have tried that….
It would’ve been better, in my opinion, to illuminate how Big Media treats NASA rather than make a graph about perceived truths.
Big Media only runs stories on NASA when they need money, and Space Disasters are newsworthy, regardless. But NASA does SO MANY COOL THINGS in a year…most people just never hear about them because Big Media would rather talk about Joe the Plumber or Dancing With The Stars.
Isn’t that why it’s titled “NASA in the News”?
Maybe,
I would rather hear the author’s intent at this point.
Needs a bar for “claims to have invented something even better than Tang and Velcro”
I must say, I agree with James. They do cool things, its just that they are never covered. I had the privilege of seeing the shuttle launch live once, and it sure changed my opinion.
I have to agree with fubuki
I agree with Leo. The news media always focus on the negative aspects of NASA. That’s why I take issue with this graph saying that the news media focus on the negative aspects of NASA.
I have to agree with Shance
So you admit “The news media always focus on the negative aspects of NASA”, but have an issue with this graph because its “saying that the news media focus on the negative aspects of NASA”?
Huh, that’s still wildly confusing
I hate when people whine about NASA’s budget when it is only sixth tenths of one percent, yes, sixth tenths of one percent, of the total federal budget of the United States.
Meanwhile defense spending accounts for 54% of the total federal budget. I guess we’re more concerned with fighting wars than scientific discovery these days.
Sad but true.
Is there any reason this graph doesn’t mention diapers? Really? That was the buiggest media bounce NASA ever got on anything.
200% ?
i was just about to say the same thing…
I was just about to ask how this went so long without being pointed out.
ET?
that’s more than half!
kudos
I think they’re meant to correspond. 100% of the time something blew up, and also 100% of the time they need money to replace whatever blew up and improve it so it doesn’t happen again.
I forgot to add, though, that the label could have been better if that is what they meant.
Hmm….or every instance of something blowing up/ need for money is reported, while no instances of the others are reported. Now I just confused myself.
so… 100% of the time they make the news because something blew up, and the OTHER 100% of the time it is because of financial difficulties.”
Thanks for clearing that up.
Math FAIL!
It’s a funny thing about NASA, that they’re the most boring when they’re doing the most practial things.
Going to the moon? Everyone was glued to their screens, though it was basically just landing a little craft on a big, arid ball of dust.
Performing experiments on the ISS? No one cares, but often the results of the experiments have pracical applications for us down on Earth.
Now people keep pushing NASA to go to Mars, even though it’d be even more useless and would cost at least 10 times more than the lunar missions costed (the cost of Mars missions, manned and unmanned, will go down the longer we wait and the farther technology progresses, but Mars is still about 200 times farther from Earth than the Moon is).
seriously, if you’re going to criticize NASA at least learn basic math first.
Calm down there sedgewick sexton
The way I read the graph is like this . . . with my eyes.
Crap jokes aside, I understand it as saying that hardly any of the cool stuff, alien communications or scientific discoveries get reported, but every single request for money and thing blowing up does.
Although communicating with aliens would be cool.
Shouldn’t the sum gives 100% ?
nasa just discovered a planet, yet that got no news at all, so this graph=win
Learn to use a graph?
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