Please tell me they’re joking. They have to be joking, right? There’s no way this is true!

The foremost mission of NASA — the National Aeronautic and Space Administration — is now to improve relations with the Muslim world?

I thought we were talking about NASA here. You know, the guys who went to the moon, took pictures of space, and popularized Tang.

And now we’re going to make the Muslim world “feel good about” themselves? I’m not making that up; Administrator Charles Bolden said, “to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science…”

Absolutely! Here’s a few right off the top of my head. Increased understanding of geology in arid climates, an in-depth study of the “fight-or-flight” response in an isolated sociopolitical setting, and a deeper understanding of dishonesty on an international scale. To be fair, in the 11th century, Ibn al-Haytham was important in developing the scientific method, but that was almost a thousand years ago.

Wanna compare to some of Israel’s contributions?

—Kij421, out.