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NASA Puts the Earth Up For Adoption (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Wondering how to show that special planet some affection this Earth Day? Adopt it. NASA has sectioned off 64,000 individual pieces of Earth to be "adopted" by supporters on their website. The pieces are about 55 miles wide and assigned randomly. Similar to adopting a highway or naming a star, participants do not get legal or property rights to their section. So whether you get the 55-mile section that contains the Taj Mahal or the one that is square in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, you benefit the same.
I picked Area 51, but some strange people in suits came to my door, smashed my laptop, and demanded I give them the area.
Table-ized A.I.
Actual link to NASA Page.......
Once the adoptions fill up, they will be reassigned to allow everyone the opportunity to celebrate their own little corner of the Earth.
Just hope that your randomly assigned slot isn't double-booked with a NASA employee or else you could end up being beaten up and forcibly removed from the Earth.
I donno about the cost, but I expect that a lot better return on that cost will be borne by this initiative than your post will generate, both in relative and absolute terms.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Yeah, when the federal government was spending more than 4% of its budget on the Apollo program.
Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind some military money being shifted to NASA. There's no sense in firing a several million dollar missile to take out a $200 quadcopter. Make the military figure out how to economically deal with those real yet inexpenive threats.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
NASA has always had time for such nonsense. The only difference is now they have an internet site which allows the public to get in on the nonsense.
Wondering how to show some affection towards NASA? Adopt it. I have sectioned off 64,000 individual pieces of NASA to be "adopted" by supporters on slashdot. The pieces are assigned randomly. Similar to adopting a highway or naming a star, participants do not get legal or property rights to their section. So whether you get launch pad 39b or some marshy shoreline, you benefit the same.
What a crock of sh*t.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
When you adopt a section of highway you are expected to pick up litter. Are we expected to clean up the section of Gaia we adopt?
What right does NASA have to adopt out sections of Gaia?
I would mod this up if I had the points.
Though you left out :
Charging their Phones, and cars. The lights and utilities and things left running while they weren't using them like refridgerators and the people and power that run the airlines, the harmful effect and cost of producing the above said items.
It's actually much worse than that even.
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When I read the title I thought NASA was advertising Earth for adoption by aliens, after it had been neglected by its native inhabitants. That actually makes more sense :-P
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