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jessemckinney writes "Apparently, the US congress of last year cut the funding of this great satellite project after it was finished. It will now take millions of dollars (us) to refuel and recalibrate the instruments. Why do politicians have to kill great science projects for their own political vandettas?"
"I have made the tough moral and ethical decision that the federal government can only fund direct and untainted descendants from the original Apollo spacecraft. Al(l) Gore's base belong to us."
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To take pictures of the Earth.
...*sniff*
*sniff* that's so.... Oprah
Al Gore could have downloaded openuniverse and saved us alot of money.
If the "Vandellas" find out you called them "Vandettas" (sounds like a Volkswagen), you're liable to find yourself with "Nowhere to Run", and worried about something worse than the current "Heatwave", perhaps finding yourself sinking in "Quicksand".
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
It wasn't so much a "weather satellite" as it was a tool to make everyone in the world aware of our Gaia-ity. We see one blue world with swirling clouds and suddenly everyone realizes that we are one big family and all wars end and we have a huge harmonic convergence.
If that doesn't convince them to do it, we can always say it will track weather or something...
D.S.
Why do dogs lick their own balls?
A: Because they can.
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
Building a $120M satellite just to get a constantly updating view of the earth? Couldn't they save a ton by buying one of those very detailed 3D models of the Earth they use in sci-fi flicks and hooking it up to a giant renderfarm? They'd just need make sure they chose a model that doesn't leave out New Zealand.
Sure, it wouldn't be "the real thing," but I say, no harm, no foul. The populace would be happy because they could tune into "The Planet Channel" any time, and be filled with that warm fuzzy "I am a speck of dust" feeling. The Democrats and Republicans would be happy because they could spend their half of the 120 mil on whatever they wanted (the former on supplying clean needles to welfare mothers, the latter on black ops research to create a clone army of genetically-enhanced Richard Nixons.)
And nobody would be any the wiser.
Why do politicians have to kill great science projects for their own political vandettas?
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