100% agree with you there my friend! And I know from PERSONAL experience!
Back in July of 2003, I got laid off from my Network Engineering job of 11 years. Got paid a great salary and could pretty much set my own hours (as long as the global network was purring). I landed another job in October 2003. I am now a callcenter supervisor. IT was just not hiring anywhere. For those of you that have never worked in a callcenter before, let me tell ya, micromanagement HEAVEN! It made me sick to my stomache. EVERYTHING is timed down to the second. I had to track how long Johnny went to lunch. Ooops, he was gone for 15 minutes and 49 seconds. Only supposed to have a 15 minute break. Got to write up a record of discussion.... Absolutely ludacris.
The good news? My old job called me. The economy is crawling out of the toilet. They want me back.
There is a god....
Just a little blurb from someone who has tread on the other side.
Look- There is one thing that I see that is fundamentally wrong with missions to Mars. NO LIFE EXPERIMENTS. Both of Nasa's Mars Rovers, the Beagle 2 or anything coming down the pike for that matter do not have ANY experiments to directly detect life of any form.
Should life be the primary mission? No. But cripes, at least place Dr. Levin's LR experiment on board? Whats that big deal?
This argument has been raging for decades. It's time to put it to bed and friggin move on. If there is life, no doubt its microbial. We learn about it, document it and move on.
I don't know about anyone else, but there are only so many gamma x-ray spectrometer experiments that you can subject a Mars rock to. Lets quit spending Millions on these "Fluff" missions and get down to the meat and potatos.
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100% agree with you there my friend! And I know from PERSONAL experience! Back in July of 2003, I got laid off from my Network Engineering job of 11 years. Got paid a great salary and could pretty much set my own hours (as long as the global network was purring). I landed another job in October 2003. I am now a callcenter supervisor. IT was just not hiring anywhere. For those of you that have never worked in a callcenter before, let me tell ya, micromanagement HEAVEN! It made me sick to my stomache. EVERYTHING is timed down to the second. I had to track how long Johnny went to lunch. Ooops, he was gone for 15 minutes and 49 seconds. Only supposed to have a 15 minute break. Got to write up a record of discussion.... Absolutely ludacris. The good news? My old job called me. The economy is crawling out of the toilet. They want me back. There is a god.... Just a little blurb from someone who has tread on the other side.
Look-
There is one thing that I see that is fundamentally wrong with missions to Mars. NO LIFE EXPERIMENTS. Both of Nasa's Mars Rovers, the Beagle 2 or anything coming down the pike for that matter do not have ANY experiments to directly detect life of any form.
Should life be the primary mission? No. But cripes, at least place Dr. Levin's LR experiment on board? Whats that big deal?
This argument has been raging for decades. It's time to put it to bed and friggin move on. If there is life, no doubt its microbial. We learn about it, document it and move on.
I don't know about anyone else, but there are only so many gamma x-ray spectrometer experiments that you can subject a Mars rock to. Lets quit spending Millions on these "Fluff" missions and get down to the meat and potatos.