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Bizarre Six-Tailed Asteroid Dumbfounds Scientists
coondoggie writes "Many images from deep space are so cool, weird and unusual it is hard to believe they are real sometimes. This is one of them. Astronomers looking deep into the asteroid belt through NASA's Hubble Space Telescope say they have spotted an asteroid, designated P/2013 P5, with six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it like spokes on a wheel or a spinning garden sprinkler."
Our lives are better for finding this exactly how?
Hey, I'm all for people who are interested in knowledge for knowledge's sake seeking it. But this is paid for by taxpayers. Where's the justification behind extracting money by force to pay for this? Can I get a research grant to study the effects of a radical increase of income on a middle class citizen (me, say give me $1 million a year to see what happens)?
And no, this is not a troll or flamebait - it's justified, rational criticism.
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