Comments on: Obama: First Trekkie President?

By: Star Trek movie - News of the Weird

Star Trek movie - News of the Weird — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:42:34 +0000

[...] only get about $50 million. Silly people, don’t ever underestimate Trekkies. We helped get Obama elected, too. :Kirk, Spock, Star Trek, Uhura No comments for this entry [...]

By: Will_H

Will_H — Sat, 09 May 2009 18:59:49 +0000

God Im tired of people on here that take a post about our president and use it to start spewing their own negative political agenda. He’s the president (weather you like it or not) and its cool that he’s a Trekkie. Its not they’re trying to sell his political agenda on here, so grow up. I think its cool that he’s a Trekkie (even if his Trek terminology is a bit off). And hey, even though Im a Democrat, I still think its cool that Regan was on the set of TNG. So grow the f*** up, and if you cant say something intelligent then why not just skip the Obama articles, k?

By: Peter Parker & Barack Obama - Together At Last | Better Than Cleavage

Peter Parker & Barack Obama - Together At Last | Better Than Cleavage — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:02:00 +0000

[...] hype about Obama being a “Nerd In Chief” (due to his obsession with his Blackberry, a fondness for Star Trek and a childhood comic book collection) — Marvel has solidified it. [...]

By: Spider-Man saves Obama’s Inauguration « events dear boy, events

Spider-Man saves Obama’s Inauguration « events dear boy, events — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:21:27 +0000

[...] The makers of the comic created the story upon reading that Barack Obama collects Spiderman comics, the BBC reports. The President-Elect is also, may I add, a Star Trek fan. [...]

By: Commodore Wesley

Commodore Wesley — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:49:29 +0000

Also, President-Elect Obama (or any other President, for that matter) would do well not to write a blank check to NASA, but, rather, see to it that the money for a space infrastructure be spent in the most intelligent way. Case in point: tSpace proposed an architecture consisting of reusable vehicles, which could take us to the ISS, or the Moon, for 1/20th the cost of NASA’s Constellation Program. NASA, engaging in its historical “Not Invented Here” syndrome, went with aerospace giant Lockheed-Martin’s unimaginative Orion design. Another example: Dr. Lopez-Alegria, former NASA astronaut, is developing the nuclear VASIMR propulsion technology with his private company, AdAstra, in the Houston area (this could enable round trips to Mars in months rather than years, with all of the safety advantages this means to human space travelers). Meanwhile, NASA scrapped its advanced propulsion design organization when its budget was cut. COTS, the performance-based awards given by NASA to private NewSpace companies (like SpaceX) to provide crew and cargo transportation to the ISS, is the most intelligent investment NASA has made in decades. But, COTS is underfunded.
If an Administration wants to advance the Final Frontier, the best approach is a private/government partnership. Private contractors to provide access to Earth orbit; private entrepreneurs mining resources (such as titanium-group metals, essential for our technological civilization) on the Moon and near-Earth asteroids; government encouragement of innovative and risky technologies; and government-conducted science/exploration.
And I favor boots on the ground (and hand-held hammers, and human-monitored microscopes, etc.) as an eventual goal, throughout the Solar System. While I am impressed by the longevity of the MER rovers, just imagine how much more information humans (who don’t need their every step programmed) could have gathered, and in a much shorter time!
Humans must press ever outward; that is the only antidote to decadence.
Ad Luna! Ad Ares! Ad Astra!

By: Commodore Wesley

Commodore Wesley — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:36:53 +0000

I would like to offer that Trek (TOS, at least) may fit best into North AmericanTechnocratic ideology, as compared to all stripes of capitalism and socialism. See http://www.technocracyinc.org for details. North American Technocracy even includes the ideas of “credits” (based on an “Energy Accounting” product distribution system) for anything not considered to be life essentials, such as food, shelter, clothing, etc. This would explain Uhura buying a tribble with credits. On the other hand, education, to whatever level any individual desires (and has the intelligence to assimillate and use productively), is assumed to be free in a Technocratic society; hence, the above-mentioned reference to Spock’s training doesn’t fit.

By: Barack Obama: Superhero | Barack Obama Social Network -Obama Wins, President

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:01:43 +0000

[...] has also mentioned on the campaign trail that he watched Star Trek as a kid. “I grew up on Star Trek. I believe in the final frontier,” he [...]

By: What’s So Wrong With Being a Trekkie?! | Pink Raygun.com

What’s So Wrong With Being a Trekkie?! | Pink Raygun.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:06:56 +0000

[...] Obama’s America. Obama said, “I grew up on Star Trek, I believe in the final frontier,” in a speech last March. We’ve come full circle. We’ve weathered a jaded, cynical era and now, look!, change is the [...]

By: Hero Sandwich » Is Barack Obama a Geek?

Hero Sandwich » Is Barack Obama a Geek? — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:18:54 +0000

[...] on top of being a comic reader, Obama is also a Trekkie, according to Leonard Nimoy… About a year and a half ago I was at a political event and one [...]

By: JWM

JWM — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:03:22 +0000

“So by your statement, most developments of consequence in human history were motivated by military need. Sorry, but I think this is glaringly false.”

While not true through all of human history, the 20th Century was very much defined by the fact that the majority of the technological and medical breakthroughs we enjoy came from our relentless pursuit of profit and the desire to both do and undo the damage we do to ourselves and each other.

Cell phones, computers, atomic energy, et al…largely off-shoots of military tech, which the contractors then took to the marketplace to recoup their costs and turn a profit.