END OF NASA BY OBAMA
Will the Statistics be Matched by the Facts?
On January 27, 2010, Fox News indicated that President Obama would end the Ares Rocket Program that is designed to replace U.S. Space Shuttles, which retire this year. Doing so would put NASA out of manned spaced flight. Farming out our space program to the Russians means that the U.S. is effectively surrendering keys of the International Space Station to the Russians, even though the U.S. built and delivered most of it. Along with those keys go U.S. pride and the dreams of many of America’s science-minded youth – unless America has a secret space program like the legendary TR-3B or Project Aurora.
On the matrix above, the axis term is only 6 letters, shorter than I normally accept, but it is the 3rd shorter ELS of END NASA (or END OF NASA). To show it with the man who supposedly wants to do away with NASA, OBAMA, requires 198 letters. A larger matrix (with the yellow background) is required to include the words SPACECRAFT and ARES. But to incorporate these two extra terms, the matrix had to grow by another 202 letters to 400 letters.
There was about 1 chance in 41 (p = .0245) that OBAMA would be in the 198 letters with END NASA. Going to the larger matrix reduces the value of OBAMA there to about one chance in 8 (p = .124). There the word SPACECRAFT is more significant (p = .0194, about one chance in 51). The words ARES is only 3 letters, and my protocal is stricter in accepting such short words. All letters of them must be 3 or fewer letters apart from each other. Here that equates to a p value of .285, which is about one chance in 3.5 to be there. The combined value of these three terms OBAMA, SPACECRAFT and ARES is then downgraded by a factor of 3 because the axis term is only the 3rd shortest ELS of END NASA. The final p value is thus calculated to be .00207 which is about one chance in 482. While this matrix appears to be statistically significant, it remains to be seen if Congress would go along with killing NASA. One thing is fairly sure - such a plan would be political suicide in Florida. It would be hard for Obama to win re-election in 2012 without this state.
