NASA Needs Wil Wheaton

Editor’s note: Remember when I said that “NASA needs Kirk not Scotty” the other day? Well I was wrong. NASA needs Wesley.

The other day many of the NASA Gen Y crowd were furiously tweeting and retweeting a link via Twitter that points to yet another Administrator poll/petition site. At first, although skewed by their preferences, it seemed to at least have some of the right names on it (even if I was deemed more qualified than Wes Huntress for a few days). Then yesterday it turned into yet another example of Internet narcissism by deluge of followers of the guy who runs Bad Astronomy blog. Alas, my “followers” were weak by comparison. I am clearly not worthy. Oh well. Here is a chance to boost Wil Wheaton‘s post-Star Trek career (he is currently Number 2). He actually has some interesting things to say. Give him your support. Maybe he can fix NOMAD.

P.S. Although Mike Griffin is leaving NASA, you can still be one of the 3,000 people (real and imaginary) who supported his quest to stay on the job. The current tally is 2,919, so time is running out if you want to be part of that elite group of 3,000. The most popular Griffin supporter name thus far is “Anonymous”. In addition, “Frank Poole” (the movie astronaut killed by HAL 9000) and “Harry Stamper” (Bruce Willis in “Armageddon”) are still unwavering in their support of Mike as well.

Editor’s note: Wil Wheaton’s name suddenly disappeared from this online “poll” despite clearly being in second place. So much for the veracity of these sites – not that anyone suspected that there was.