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Private Donor Saves Fermilab
sciencehabit writes "In what has to be an embarrasment for the U.S. Department of Energy, an anonymous donor has ponied up $5 million to keep the country's only remaining particle physics laboratory operating efficiently."
Is there any practical application of particle physics research whatsoever? Yeah, I thought not.
I'm just not that into government using my tax dollars for such esoteric stuff. If someone in the private sector wants to donate or support that's fine, but the government should stay out out such trivial issues. There are many other useful and urgent things they should fund instead.
Bahaha, the JesusCunts must be modding tonight.
That was Funny, not Flamebait.
Trolling is a art,
You know everyone here is blaming Bush for slashing science, with the implicit thought that only the supposedly erudite liberals are the ones that ever fund science. Yet, if these people actually had 1/10th of the curious mind that George Bush has, they might have actually gone and compared Fermilab's 2000 Budget of 277 million dollars versus the currently requested Fermilab budget of 377 million dollars and realized the Bush has asked for significantly more money for Fermilab. Then, instead of moaning about the Republican approach to science, we might observe that is in fact DEMOCRATS who control the Congress, and DEMOCRATS who cut the Fermilab budget.
The fact of the matter is, DEMOCRATS are the ones, right now, who are slashing science spending. DEMOCRATS are the ones who want to put a stop to manned space exploration, curtail unmanned space exploration, already killed an unmanned mission to look for life on Europa and nuclear powered spacecraft. Everyone bashes Bush on energy research, but Clinton didn't do jack shit for 8 years on alternative energy. In contrast, Bush has massively funded every sort of bio-energy science that there is, and put the subsidies in place to speed adoption, and now, it's actually -working-.
Yeah, some REpublicans might be a bit goofy about evolution. Big deal. Evolution doesn't make any consumer products and information complexity theory is a better foundation for biology than evolution is anyway. But, Democrats are way more goofy about government as a redistribution of wealth vehicle and about fighting technological progress so that they can create more manual jobs. Yeah, Democrats can go on about how much they love science, but they never want to actually PAY FOR IT. You can bash Republicans as much as you want, when it comes to every major technology initiative over the last three decades, its been your friendly neighborhood warmongering right wing lunatics that have laid the conceptual framework for the Internet, funded all sorts of applied physics and chemistry, funded pretty much anything that looks like it would be a good consumer product, and the numbers -prove it-.
Seriously, just go get spreadsheets, and compare Clinton's science budgets, with Bush's, Carter's science budgets with Reagan's, and even Nixon's science budgets with Johnson's, and you will find that for the most part, Republicans spend far more on research and development than scientists do.
And finally, yes, every major university should be kissing Republican ass because it was Republicans that allowed private universities to become cash cows by filing for patents on research paid for by federal dollars.
My prediction is thus: Barrack Obama pulls the plug entirely on NASA, if he is elected. Yeah, Democrats are all in favor of science, they just don't want to ever actually do it.
Frauds.
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But what about the importance of shooting brown people? This alone surely makes it worth it!
I have mod points. The reign of terror begins now.