Opinion: NASA and its politics of great deception

In the meantime, the shiny object is Kalonzo. The one man we expect very little of is at the centre of the blitz, causing all sort of fears, rumours, and misdirection.PHOTO:COURTESY

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact”, wrote Arthur Conan Doyle. To discuss the politics of NASA properly, you have to think like a traditional hunter.

They needed something shiny to point in the eyes of the prey and blind the animal, preventing it from pouncing.