Rocket Scientists versus Environmentalists

I’m a mean old anti-environmentalist. I have no problem admitting this fact--in fact, I'm proud of it.

I think that most environmentalists are stupid dipsticks that couldn’t find their own butt with a flashlight and a road map.

Most environmentalists are so misinformed (or just plain stupid) that 99% of the stuff that they run around preaching about and worrying about either can’t be proven, can’t be controlled, or doesn’t really matter in the total scope of the happenings on our lovely planet Earth.

Of course, I also believe that they (the environmentalists) are entitled to their ideas and ideals, I just object when they try to force their beliefs on me through intimidation or worst of all...

LEGISLATION.

Take the 1987 Montreal Treaty, for instance.

Need I mention that the Montreal Treaty was sponsored by the United Nations?

Well...it was.

The Montreal Treaty essentially was concerned with limiting or ending the production and use of substances (chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), halons, carbon tetrachloride, and methyl chloroform) that was believed to cause harm to the ozone layer.

You remember ozone layer, don’t you?

Did you know that we didn’t know about Ozone until the mid 1800’s?

Did you know that we didn’t know that the ozone molecules liked to hang around together in a “layer” high up in the stratosphere until the early 1900’s?

Did you know that we didn’t know that things like solar radiation and lightning makes ozone until the mid 1900’s?

We also didn’t know that there was a “hole” in the ozone layer up over the artic circle until the mid 1980’s.

See all the things we DIDN’T KNOW until relatively recently in human history?

Well, thank GOD for all of those genius ENVIRONMENTALISTS and their supporting scientific community and liberal media, because, in spite of only knowing about the ozone layer for 75 years and, in spite of not knowing about a hole in said ozone layer for two years, in 1987 they all got together, sang a couple of rousing verses of Kum-Ba-Ya, and produced the Montreal Treaty to solve the perceived problem with the hole in the ozone layer.

If you are interested in how Montreal Treaty’s changes effect you, take a walk outside and look under the hood at your car’s air conditioner. If there is a sticker there that says “R-134A” instead of “R-12”—you can thank the Montreal Treaty for this little price increase and performance DECREASE that you live with every day.

All of the tree hugging morons clapped their hands and ran around celebrating these measures as yet another essential step in saving our planet. What they didn’t tell you is that if one large volcano like the Philippines’ Mt. Pinatubo decides to erupt again like it did in 1991 that it will dump more CFC’s into the air in one day than humans could if we all ran outside and released the entire contents of the hated R-12 (Freon) contained in every car air conditioner in the entire US.

So much for good planning—right?

That’s OK, say the environmentalists—it’s the thought that counts...

Now we learn that the Space Shuttle has once again had a close call with a piece of foam separating from the disposable hydrogen tank during liftoff.

You remember how pesky that darned old foam can be when it comes off during liftoff, don’t you?

In February of 2003 a little old piece of foam came off during liftoff of the Columbia, cut a hole in the leading edge of the heat shield tiles on the wing, and caused the loss of the shuttle and its entire crew during re-entry.

After being grounded for nearly two and one half years, I thought that NASA had fixed the “foam problem.”

Do you know what the origin of “the foam problem” is?

Back in 1997 NASA changed the foam that they used to insulate the external tank in compliance with EPA regulations resulting from the Montreal Treaty.

They immediately had a problem with the foam coming off during liftoff. Then NASA sought and received a variance to allow them to go back to the Freon based foam product, but the environmentalists, both external to NASA and internal to NASA’s management, choose to continue using the new “eco-friendly” foam.

What amazes me is that, after losing a zillion dollar spaceship, an entire crew of highly trained human beings, and spending 1.5 billion additional dollars over 2-1/2 years, NASA is still opting to use the crappy “eco-friendly” foam rather than reverting to the proven product that they had previouosly flown for almost 20 years.

Now the shuttle fleet is grounded AGAIN and we have another shuttle and crew of sons and daughters in orbit, and the f**king moronic ENVIRONMENTALISTS are obviously still running the show at NASA.

Let me ask you this…

When are we going to put the SCIENCE back in the ROCKET SCIENTIST and take the MENTAL out of the ENVIRONMENTALIST?

Well...I'm waiting for an answer here...

(Somebody said that you should call environmentalists “watermelons” because they are “green” on the outside and red “communists” on the inside. I Totally Agree...)