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Europe Joins Race To Send Humans To Mars
hereisnowhy writes "CBC reports that the ESA hopes to send humans to Mars within three decades. They first hope to return a Martian soil sample by 2014. They stress the importance of determining whether Mars ever supported life before humans touch down on the surface, because "You can sterilize a robot. But you cannot do the same to an astronaut. Inevitably a human will introduce microbes to the planet ... and contaminate it."" Kame-sennin links to a Reuters article on the plans.
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Hey cockface, money stored in a bank account increases the assests a bank has at its disposal to make further investments, so either way spent directly or saved in a savings account it gets back into circulation.
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
Hey dumbfuck, that money only profits THE BANK. No bank is going to put the interests of the economy before itself.
Slashdot is proof that Sturgeon's Law applies to mankind.
What really irks me about political discussion is not disagreeing, but when I read/hear stuff that couldn't possibly be realistic.
Bush, in an evil plot to "be successful", is going to reach his sinister goals by proposals to spend thousands of millions of dollars on the American aerospace and technology industries, and you have figured out that THIS WILL BOOST HIS CHANCES OF GETTING REELECTED!!!
Holy crap! I guess it's a good idea Bush scrapped his proposal to spend $11.9 billion on a study to replace the American flag with the flag of the former USSR, because THAT WOULD HURT HIS CHANCES OF GETTING ELECTED! It's a freaking conspiracy that has gotten out of control! A politician tries to PROVIDE FOR HIS CONSTITUENTS and SPEND MONEY ON DOMESTIC INDUSTRY all in a SHAMELESS BID to get people to VOTE FOR HIM!!!
All kidding aside, I think you need to start up a website where you can inform the rest of us about this scandal. Make some really clever comparisons to the European proposal which surely has nothing to do with getting some people elected, because everybody knows that European politicians must be the dumbest humans on the planet. That, or they're just politicians too, and wouldn't you know it, everybody is trying to get elected.
I guess this is flamebait, but wtf, it's late at night and I'm loaded.
Government's not giving away enough free money so I should rob a liquor store?
Wait what? A *liquor* store?
Hey dumbass, let me get this straight. You're broke, you alledegly can't work, but you can get the energy up to go rob a *liquor* store.
"My kids are starving, that's why they're crying"
Hey genious, that *liquor* isn't going to feed your kids.
Maybe you should get a clue and go "rob" a soup kitchen. I'm sure your kids would be nice enough to bring you something back if you couldn't go yourself. I know the soup kitchen I helped at had plenty of bread they were giving away for people to take with them when they left.
Or if you're really up to robbing something, why not rob a super market so you can at least pretend it okay since it was so you could feed your kids.
That song might have a valid point if they author in any way shape or form was indicating how dedicated he was to at least attempting to help himself and his family.
As it is, it just demonstrates how lazy and thoughtless he is. He doesn't even have the sense to rob something that would benefit his kids.
It's amazing how many places are out there looking to help people but people like that demand it from the government.
Sorry, progress isn't going to stop because you've failed at life and refuse to act intelligently to make an attempt to rectify the situation.
There will always be poor. Better for government to spend the money on things that move society forward and let society (not the government) decide how much it wants to give out of its pockets to help those who need it.
Robbing a liquor store and bitching about starving kids in the same song. I've never read anything so pathetic.
Ben
Work Safe Porn
PUT SOME HARDWARE IN THE AIR!
Honestly, these old-world guys can talk a big tale. On paper, they have already done it.
The problem with Canada is it's very close, geographically, to the U.S.!