User: huegort

look at the date

On: Distributed Computing Program Hidden in Kazaa

this must be and april fools gag

Re:NASA these days

On: Hack in Space

What Nasa needs is another cold war. Something that doesn't have any waste with destruction, just lots of money going into research.

concise dead trees not the entire tree

On: What Kind of Books do You Want?

paper books are great yes BUT not the ones which are a WHOLE tree When a book gets too large it is hard to find the inforamtion The great thing about the O'R books is that they arn't padded out.

Re:a sad day to remember

On: Apollo 1

Make no mistake, the great 'explorers' of the past were, to a man, in the game for the profit, *period*.

Most of the great things that humans do are NOT for profit, but for prestige (yes marco polo/ drake/ cooke where also looking for profit.. but what profit where the south/norht pole expeditionists ever hoping to get.)
I would have said that the idea of, equating everything down to bottom line in an accountants spreedsheet, is more the modern idea (that has yet to stand the test of time.)
What makes us any better/ different from cavemen. monkeys? its the fact that we can do the "unnecessary" things like art and exploration (of knowledge, space and spirituality)
If they HAPPEN to bring a bonus to humanity well then so much the better.

The greatest secret to life is death. without which man would not try making his mark apon the world.