From The Washington Post
Some of NASA's brightest minds were invited to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to tell members of Congress about water that once ran across Mars, and the possibility of life on Europa and missions to explore them.Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/19/nasa-wanted-to-talk-about-science-a-congressman-wanted-to-ask-about-martian-civilizations/?utm_term=.9d242a3c3854“Good questions,” the chairman of the space subcommittee said after an hour or so. Then he turned the microphone over to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, who would save his most important question for the end.
“Thank you,” the California Republican began.
“One of the benefits, I should say, of your activities, is that, well — you have all these robots all over the universe and beyond.”
A boy seated behind Rohrabacher had been fiddling with his hair, but now looked up at the congressman.
“Let me just note,” Rohrabacher said by way of disclaimer, “that I've been around for a while.”
So he had.
Elected to his office 14 consecutive times, he has sat on the House Space and Technology Committee for decades and run for the chairmanship at least twice, without success.
“I love science,” Rohrabacher once told Science Magazine.
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