Faith-Based Engineering

Hah! Once again, the scintillating flame-war-style posting on ./’s article on the various republican candidates produces some of the funniest quotes I hear in the course of the day.

Current leader:

 

“I expect that new faith-based engineering techniques are going to be what it will require to do the things Bush has proposed with respect to manned space flight. In the past we used to worry about interplanetary radiation, food supplies for a six year voyage, and reliable rocket engines. But the advances in faith-based engineering (mostly spinoffs of the faith-based Iraq war) have made it possible to seal up a couple of dudes in a steampunk diving bell and fire them at Mars from a cannon, confident of their eventual return.”

 

Classic.