The cost is a drop in a drop in a bucket. Applying the savings to some Earth-local research budget might help that particular thing for a bit. Then when it is gone we've inched or millimetered our way towards knowledge included in the billions of dollars that we already spend on this stuff world-wide. And we would still have no further knowledge of exo-planets, therefore absolutely no chance of finding any other data points to compare with Earth.
Comparative planetology has greatly increased our knowledge of Earth systems. I feel your argument is similar to someone in the 70's who would have argued "why send spacecraft to other planets to study them? We have enough problems here".
That said the current government has just introduced new legislation that says if your kids haven't had their jabs you lose all child related wellfare. Dependent on your income that could be as much as $15k a year per child.
Good. If I'm paying for someone's kids, I want them to at least have a chance of being healthy.
If you would have started telling me in 4th grade about how programming can be used to integrate CRM and ERP systems I probably would have just kept playing Nintendo instead of learning QBASIC.
Sometimes you need to get people hooked on how a topic can be cool before you start showing them how it can be practical.
Yep. I got into computers because I had fun programming an artillery game in my school's first computer.
I was a bit turned off by Kaku watching him during some astro show. He gave an single example of something then presented a solution of "what else can it be?". Von Däniken used that kind of thing a lot.
I think the opposite could be argued, also. Once they go home, they take their years of training/skills with them, and we lose the benefit of their experience.
Ok everybody, off to the Great NorthWest! We'll try to prioritize the first few million for you, but you'll have to handle the millions afterwards by yourselves.
Lot's of humans like to migrate. Thanks for the invitation!
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Sorry. Forgot the reference.
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For those of the geological persuasion, 50 000 years is certainly 'right now'.
But it's not the same "right now" that includes driving cars.
"Sez you!" - F. Flintstone
Interesting, thanks.
The cost is a drop in a drop in a bucket. Applying the savings to some Earth-local research budget might help that particular thing for a bit. Then when it is gone we've inched or millimetered our way towards knowledge included in the billions of dollars that we already spend on this stuff world-wide. And we would still have no further knowledge of exo-planets, therefore absolutely no chance of finding any other data points to compare with Earth.
Comparative planetology has greatly increased our knowledge of Earth systems. I feel your argument is similar to someone in the 70's who would have argued "why send spacecraft to other planets to study them? We have enough problems here".
That said the current government has just introduced new legislation that says if your kids haven't had their jabs you lose all child related wellfare. Dependent on your income that could be as much as $15k a year per child.
Good. If I'm paying for someone's kids, I want them to at least have a chance of being healthy.
I think you thinking of Jenna Jamesson, not Jenny McCarthy.
Ah. Thank you for clearing that up. I don't want any McCarthyism getting into my porn feeds.
If you would have started telling me in 4th grade about how programming can be used to integrate CRM and ERP systems I probably would have just kept playing Nintendo instead of learning QBASIC.
Sometimes you need to get people hooked on how a topic can be cool before you start showing them how it can be practical.
Yep. I got into computers because I had fun programming an artillery game in my school's first computer.
Good analogy. That's the way it works.
I'd be interested in knowing what might be fabricated, too. Any particular part?
I was a bit turned off by Kaku watching him during some astro show. He gave an single example of something then presented a solution of "what else can it be?". Von Däniken used that kind of thing a lot.
You win the internet today.
Excellent analogy.
Thank you for that. I really needed a laugh this morning and this was totally unexpected.
I think the opposite could be argued, also. Once they go home, they take their years of training/skills with them, and we lose the benefit of their experience.
you must be gnu here.
Ok everybody, off to the Great NorthWest! We'll try to prioritize the first few million for you, but you'll have to handle the millions afterwards by yourselves.
Lot's of humans like to migrate. Thanks for the invitation!
That's real serious government waste.
What's really serious is using an adjective in the place of an adverb.
Nonsense. It can be parsed "really serious" as you'd like, or real "serious govt waste".
> No one promises pork spending. They just do it and don't tell you.
No, they do promise and they brag about it during re-election.
They just don't call it pork. They call it jobs and investment.
Pretty much this.
And that worked so well that UK is still the world's superpower in naval might. Right?
Well, they ruled for a century. The US has yet to match that longevity.
More white people as a percentage of the total white population? I think not.
You are correct. Still, think of it, millions upon millions of white folk, just like you!
+1 for rant-parsing skills.
Union of Soviets downfall, brought about by Star Wars it was.
Ha! Maybe you're right. I remember Dems were pretty gleeful towards the end of Shrub's tenure.
So, to restate: It's acceptable for the president to break the Constitution, because it's politically expedient to allow him to embarass others.
Right! And I forgot Forbidden Planet: Leslie Neilson and Walter Pigeon.
Sure. That's what Real Men(tm) do! Haven't you read "The First Men in the Moon". That's how explorers roll!