NASA
★★★★★ (3 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing NASA.
On the one hand, I like NASA because they have astronauts and that’s pretty neat. I’ve always wanted to be an astronaut and am still hoping I get the chance. I’m probably too old but maybe they’ll change their policy. Unfortunately I recently learned that NASA has been recording all of America’s emails and phone calls. I don’t have anything to hide, but it still doesn’t seem like a very nice thing to do.
I guess it makes sense to have NASA do this. Not only do they literally possess the technology of spaceships (making them more than capable of eavesdropping), but no one would suspect them. If you were on the phone with a friend, discussing a terrorist plot, and suddenly you heard Buzz Aldrin accidentally cough, you would never think you really heard Buzz Aldrin on the phone with you.
I wrote a letter to NASA asking them to please stop tapping into all of our communications. I suggest everyone else do the same. If NASA knew how we all felt they might start to feel bad about it. I feel like it’s kind of ruining NASA’s image. Soon someone could introduce themselves to you as an astronaut, and instead of thinking, “WOW,” you might be more inclined to think, “I wonder what this man or woman knows about me.”
It’s easy to be paranoid. Every time I see a plane fly overhead I get scared that it might be the Space Shuttle, and that they might be spying on me. And every time I see a kite I think it might be a drone. I have to follow the string all the way to the source to make sure there’s a child at the end.
I sort of blame Edward Snowden, the man who leaked the information about NASA. I think he did the right thing, but I’m one of those people who prefers not to know. When eating a hot dog I imagine it’s made of Play-Doh. It’s much easier that way.
Please join me next week when I’ll be reviewing a pencil.
