Fingers Crossed for Beagle

Adam_Trask writes "Never has a spacecraft been built so quickly, on so little money, and been sent on such a long journey fraught with so many dangers. Beagle 2 has been carried to the vicinity of Mars by the Mars Express mothership, and released successfully to go its own way for the final leg of the journey."

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Re:Science vs the current American administration

[Doc Ruby]

When Bush Senior was President, his moronic lapdog Vice President Dan Quayle was in charge of science, and they got Congress to drop their science advisor and his staff. Bush Junior believes whatever his monogrammed wranglers tell him to believe, however it might change from hour to hour. The bookburning "gene" is the impulse to violently attack the minds of any who might oppose you, even if they merely unite others together. This bullshit "faith" wave sweeping the world is a cynical tool of tyrants, corporate and jihadi, to divide sensible people from our liberty, property, and compassion.

When I feel the fear, I strive to learn, breaking the chain of ignorance->fear->anger->violence. It's easy, too - I just spend some time with other people, friends or strangers, which banishes the alienation with physical presence. I go dance at a concert, or have dinner with friends. Sometimes we even learn something from each other about the fascists who build chains of fear.