Understand the nature of the beast. Many "researchers" depend on grant money (state and private) to continue to function (ie., eat, have a roof over their heads). In the world of "publish or perish", you will publish even if the research is only partially complete or half done.
This still makes no sense. Kids can and will sneak things behind their parents. It's part of learning to grow up into an adult (That's right! An adult must be sneaky sometimes). What if that waiver were not in place? What if you had brought home an R-rated movie and your parents caught you, then what? Would they just have cried, or would they have acted like real parents and set the values straight about what is acceptable in their house?! I know mine did the latter. This is what parenting is all about. Not having the government "help" you or "..giving parents the ability to make the decision." You, as a parent, already make the decision.
Come on, folks. This is NASA's bid to continue it's funding. Let's be serious here. We live in an era when American students rank 15th in the world in Math/Science/Knowledge in general. The adult population isn't much better. Most people will say "...why don't we solve the problems here on earth, first?!! " Politicians (thou great comptrollers of the Almighty Public Pursestrings) want votes and will gladly agree in order to get them. In a political environment like this, if you want to continue funding space research, you got to come up with things that can get you on the from page of the tabloids:
HEADLINE: NASA FINDS OCEAN ON MARS! PLANS TO EXPAND NEW HAWAII RESORT!
This is just a sad truth. For NASA to get to Mars, we need a space station and a moon base. This is going to take time, money, a lot of political schmozzing, and more time. Thus, they got to keep the fire stoked.
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Understand the nature of the beast. Many "researchers" depend on grant money (state and private) to continue to function (ie., eat, have a roof over their heads). In the world of "publish or perish", you will publish even if the research is only partially complete or half done.
This still makes no sense. Kids can and will sneak things behind their parents. It's part of learning to grow up into an adult (That's right! An adult must be sneaky sometimes). What if that waiver were not in place? What if you had brought home an R-rated movie and your parents caught you, then what? Would they just have cried, or would they have acted like real parents and set the values straight about what is acceptable in their house?! I know mine did the latter. This is what parenting is all about. Not having the government "help" you or "..giving parents the ability to make the decision." You, as a parent, already make the decision.
Naw, you shut the fuck up! Japan has violence on TV(!) that pales next to the US. And not nearly the carnege on their streets. Explain that!
HEADLINE: NASA FINDS OCEAN ON MARS! PLANS TO EXPAND NEW HAWAII RESORT!
This is just a sad truth. For NASA to get to Mars, we need a space station and a moon base. This is going to take time, money, a lot of political schmozzing, and more time. Thus, they got to keep the fire stoked.