Get admitted!
Well, it turns out that NASA with all it’s resources was trumped by an amateur astronomer who witnessed a large object slam into Jupiter sometime over the weekend. The said astronomer then contacted NASA to let know know what he saw at which point NASA turned their telescopes and cameras to Jupiter to find a gaping hole in Jupiter’s atmosphere. A little slow NASA. Pick up the pace people!
When NASA was preparing for the Apollo Project, it took the astronauts to a Navajo reservation in the Arizona desert for training.
One day a Navajo elder and his son came across the space crew walking among the rocks. The elder, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question which his son translated for the NASA people: “What are these guys in the big suits doing?”
One of the astronauts replied that they were practicing for a trip to the moon. When his son relayed that information to the old Navajo, he got very excited and asked if it would be possible for the astronauts to deliver a message from him to the moon.
Recognizing a promotional opportunity when he saw one, a NASA official who had been accompanying the astronauts said he would be delighted to do so and told one of his underlings to fetch a tape recorder. The recorder was set up and the microphone was handed to the old man. After his comment, which was surprising short, the NASA official asked the son for a translation of what his father had said. The son listened carefully to the recording, then laughed uproariously but declined to translate. Irritated, the NASA people took the tape to a nearby village and played it for other members of the tribe. They, too, laughed loud and long but also refused to offer a translation.
Finally, an official government translator was summoned to listen to the elder’s recorded words. After he, too, had a good laugh, he finally shared the old man’s words: “Watch out for these assholes. They have come to steal your land.”