Slashdot Mirror
Requiem for the Once-Imagined Future
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "The underwhelming Discovery mission has the Wall Street Journal Online's Real Time columnists lamenting the space program's failure to realize the sort of intergalactic exploration they once imagined as kids through the works of Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein. Considering the Viking landers were digging around Martain soil back in 1976, 'we figured the place would be necklaced with orbiters and cris-crossed by rovers by now. Maybe there'd even be astronauts (or cosmonauts or taikonauts) tracing the courses of unimaginably ancient rivers.' Instead, we get a mission whose highlights were 'a) it came back; and b) an astronaut pulled bits of cloth out from between tiles.' At this rate, the columnists fear the innovations of the future won't be much more exciting: 'Maybe Real Time 2030 will fret about how our college kids do little more than steal full-res holographic porn when they're not getting their financial identities stolen by cyber-jihadists eager to build more backpack nukes.'"
Convince the US government there are "weapons of mass destruction" and terrorists there. Oh ya, and oil. We'll be there by next Christmas.
Huh???? o_0.
And so it is. The first post is to be funny, and the fact you bring this to our attention gets moodded "informative"??!!
What the FUCK! What happend, and who put LSD in my coffee this morning?
Life is not for the lazy.
The bourgeois are perfectly happy to sit on their arses, doing nothing but watch the money pour in their pockets.
Whatever will sit (or is deemed to sit) between the money and their pockets will mercilessly be fought by all means possible.
For example, watch the greedy record companies in the face of new technologies, such as the MP3.
Bourgeois are risk-adverse, and thus they will stenuously oppose any new progress unless it can be demonstated that such progress will only enhance the amount of money pouring in their pockets.
For the last 25 years, we have seen the bourgeois relentlessly lead a formidable onslaught against States, which is viewed as yet another barrier between money and their pockets, mostly because of various countries throughout the world, with their various "trade barriers", such as tarrifs and different cultures and customs.
Through clever propaganda, they are slowly subverting Democracy by letting more and more people believe that governments are bad and should be curtailed, to the eventual point where they will be able to have "one dollar, one vote vote".
The Space Race was brought forward by competition between two large powers; the annihilation of the other power has left the USA with a monopoly in power, and monopolies are never innovative.
the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Raffaello,
Please tell me that Raffaello is some acronym or something and not an american bastardisation (notice not spelt bastardization) of the name of the Italian Renaissance painter.
When will the septics stop imposing their inability to spell long and complicated words on the rest of the world? No wonder half the world (or to the americans, the few raggedy headed weirdos who were not lucky enough to be born american and therefore must be devil worshipping baby buggering camel jockeys) want to drive planes into buildings full of americans and even bomb the London tube system in the hope of picking off a few yank tossers who were bright enough to realise that New York has nothing that London doesn't do better (and for centuries longer).
And it is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Be nice, sponsor me: http://jailbreak.ragabonds.org.uk