A couple of point mr troll. Space research has lead to benifits on earth directly and in a spin off capacity.
It is difficult to inflict an environmental disaster on a planet with no environment.
Not all problems can be solved by spending money.(AIDS, War, Famine...)
The USA is funding Astronomy not Astrology. I leave it to you to look up the difference in a dictionary.
Ok i thought about it.
Sorry to point this out, but you seem offended that Florida, California and Texas got getting 6% percent of the federal budget just for NASA. Well they do have 25% of the US population so what is your point? Maybe Ohio doesn't get alot of NASA spending for example but they sure get a hell of a lot of agriculture subsidies. In the interests of full disclosure i am not a resident of and of the states mentioned.
Sure if we all cooperate against microsoft we will be able to change the way things work.
And hey, it we just tell people to not cooperate they will listen to us, it is not like people have free will or anything. Way to solve the problem!
The calculations the Penn state guys are using are assuming that they can take the output of an accelerator and using univented (but no doubt expensive!) technologies store and use this stuff.
Typical NASA ""science"".
Some of us are planning to use this antimatter to do real particle physics here on the ground. You know investigating the standard model and all that...not as sexy as say a mars mission but arguably much more important.
If the choices are real particle physics experimentation for 10 years, or joy rides to mars, i say we choose the former.
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A couple of point mr troll. Space research has lead to benifits on earth directly and in a spin off capacity. It is difficult to inflict an environmental disaster on a planet with no environment. Not all problems can be solved by spending money.(AIDS, War, Famine ...)
The USA is funding Astronomy not Astrology. I leave it to you to look up the difference in a dictionary.
Ok i thought about it.
Sorry to point this out, but you seem offended that Florida, California and Texas got getting 6% percent of the federal budget just for NASA. Well they do have 25% of the US population so what is your point? Maybe Ohio doesn't get alot of NASA spending for example but they sure get a hell of a lot of agriculture subsidies. In the interests of full disclosure i am not a resident of and of the states mentioned.
Sure if we all cooperate against microsoft we will be able to change the way things work. And hey, it we just tell people to not cooperate they will listen to us, it is not like people have free will or anything. Way to solve the problem!
The calculations the Penn state guys are using are assuming that they can take the output of an accelerator and using univented (but no doubt expensive!) technologies store and use this stuff. Typical NASA ""science"". Some of us are planning to use this antimatter to do real particle physics here on the ground. You know investigating the standard model and all that...not as sexy as say a mars mission but arguably much more important. If the choices are real particle physics experimentation for 10 years, or joy rides to mars, i say we choose the former.