Hail to the Chimp we have chosen for the nation, Hail to the Chimp! We salute him, one and all. Hail to the Chimp, as we pledge cooperation In proud fulfillment of a great, noble call. Yours is the aim to make this grand country grander, This you will do, that's our strong, firm belief. Hail to the one we selected as commander, Hail to the President! Hail to the Chimp!
But are we learning from repairing/maintaining a station in such an environment.
With every repair NASA should (a word that rarely means we are in federal Buerocracy, I know) be learning about how to live in space. While actual scientific studies are being neglected, science is being advanced solely by living in that harse and unforgiving environment.
I think Castro and his good freind from Venuzuella need to get themselves some Pirates. That way they can Raid the Evil Empires cruel repressive corporate shipping.
I think the answer to the reason Catholics are so quite is the fact that in the US the vast majority are hunters and peckers of dogma. They take the general "moral history of scripture" and after that hunt and peck around the dogma for rules they can fit into thier own life. The US Catholic Church is an entirely differant entity then the European, Asian, or African Churchs. US Catholics are typically more liberal in thier beleif structures, even if they hide under the blanket of a dogmatic religion; hence all the dirty dirty things you hear about Catholic School Girls.
This coming from a self discribed "Non-Practicing Catholic"
Yes, however given the U.N.'s ineptitude at enforcing even the most straight forward rulings over member states. (I AM NOT TALKING IRAQ, you single minded a$$ who is thinking about flaming me without finishing reading the posting.) The UN has been unable to enforce international copyright law and patent law. Given the nature of the
Beyond that any money to fund a UN run internet agency would have to be supplied by the US since no one else seems to want to fund the organization. Try selling this idea to the American Taxpayer.
I want to hand over control of a former US Defense agency project that has since become a vital centerpiece of the global economy over the United Nations. Oh and well still have to pay all the costs associated with maintaining it, but lose all the jobs of maintaining/controlling it to places like Switzerland, who in turn will outsource to India and China; who by the way are going to use their access to steal the intellectual property of the Developed World.
Ya, that guy will get reelected in minutes.
When people start thinking about the global good the UN might have a chance. Until then they can continue spewing the words out while pilfering the charitable coffers of the ideologically challenged developed world.
I agree, lets make a moon base, man it with all the defenseless women and children, and have Bush say on National Television, "Lets see you try something now. Eh comrade? Eh??"
Given how the Hurricane has rectified the Republicans redistricting problems in Lousiana by shifting the fast hoards of refugees (see: Southern Urban Democrats) to firmly Republican districts in Texas (A firmly Republican State)I think it was all a ploy by the sifty SOB's in the Conservative Think Tanks. Castro was right we have had the ability to control Hurricanes and use them as weapons.......
Sorry I have a strange thing about Fundy Conspiracy Theories.
"The Department of Commerce requested a priority effort is given to getting the New Orleans Air Products liquid hydrogen facility back into operation as quickly as possible. The facility represents 31% of North American industrial hydrogen production.
A total of 44% of America's liquid hydrogen supply has been lost due to a previously scheduled shut down of APCs hydrogen plant in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada."
>4. "Infotainment" instead of informed news. Fox >News anybody?
Try listening to NPR if you would like an opposing slant. (And it's partually funded by tax dollars.)
>5. Controlfreak-behavior everywhere. Controlling >what people with their information, controlling >foreigners/terrorists/everything, etc.
Define Control Freak. I have yet to meet someone who has been delibriately harrassed by the federal government. (Discounting Airport Security which most frequent fliers believe is much better and feels safer then pre-9/11). I know my internet content is free of filtering cause your posting came up.
>6. Manipulated Science Papers to receive funding. >7. Polically motivated resaerch to bring a >certain politically favoured outcome.
Whatever brings in money for research nowdays usually has to be profitable if commerically funded or delibriately non-profit to get federal funding.
>8. Removing of non-PC topics from school books >(like "fanatism", "racial issues", in some cases >"evolution theory").
Have to agree here.
>9. Huge defense budget (instead of using the >money >otherwise).
Largest in the world $ for $, average on a per capita spending basis
>10. Religious (christian) fundamentalism.
Amazing the way that you point to Christian Fundimentalism when Islamic Fundamentalists are blowing themselves up in the name of religion and Hindi Fundamentalists are Suidide assulting Islamic Mosques.
Sure Christian Fundamentalist are on the rise but they lack the spit and polish of the other religions.
>11. Campains to make the US the most disliked >country on this planet, even by its allies.
"Campaigns" Talk about American education slipping.
UN fights to keep nukes on the ground. US, EU, and Russia sell arms to all sides Rest of world goes down toilet but developed world doesn't care because their oil costs less.
Is it me or are today's liberals nothing but Malthusians unable to accept inevitability.
What an oppurtunity for the physics students of the world. Lets get together with Ron Popiel and invent a gravitational device that will Knock this planet into orbit around Venus.
Here's my plan how...............
1. Discover Useless Iceball in outer System 2. Knock world into differant orbit 3. ????????? 4. Terriform 5. PROFIT!!!!!!!
Beyond that Pepsi colluded with the Soviet Union During the Cold War. By selling it's syrup to the communist government in exchange for vodka, they attempted to get themselves intigrated into the Eastern block countries since Coke had swept through Western Europe with the Allied advance.
Pepsi has since been bitten in the rear by thier own scheme since after the fall of the Iron Curtian pepsi was seen as a holdover from the Communist Era while Coke was seen as coming with the overwelming swoosh of products from the West.
Now, the big question, did Pepsi in Russia use cane sugar? Discuss.
It would be if the feel good leftists who fight for this stuff got thier priority's straight and didn't knock down every cost effective alternative energy project;
Nuclear: Unsafe waste that needs to be stored and no good place to put it.
Wind Farms: They kill birds;
Hydroelectric plants: Disrupt Natural fisheries.
Solar power is not cost effective yet, biomass is still untested and to expessive (however shows great promice), and geothermal is really not expoitable enough to successfully power any economy. Except Iceland....
Hydrogen is a storage medium and not an energy solution (however power savings potential with hydrogen storage cells plugged into the national energy grid will be of great help, and could be of great help in the public transport sector.)
All in all we have no solution on the horizon that is going to solve the problem unless the government looks at cost/benefit analysis and makes an educated descion or to on what to fund.
You forgot to metion my all time favorite conviction rounds of perjury and obstruction of justice of a Congressional Investigation.
Now I'll sit back and watch my karma plummet because I knocked down the man who built up the biggest economic bubble since the margin trading schemes of the roaring 20's.
Because science takes a second seat to defense in this administration as it has to every other in the history of the United States.
You want something differant you have two choices: 1 - Use a Cattle prod to get the democratic party into some semblance of shape. 2 - Form your own damn country. Really don't eb afraid that without a military you will only to be taken over by the US the second you devolop technology someone else wants.
Idealism is not quite as simple when you don't scream it out isn't it.
I hate to repost my own commentary but some of you just don't seem to get it.
Currently the Federal Government has alot of problems getting the average tax payer to want to spend money on research of any kind. It isn't interesting and most people equate it to spending $115.00 a hammer or research into the medicinal properties of Timber Owl pellets.
Manned Space Exploration in the early years of NASA and the Soft Science of the Apollo Missions was seen as exciting and worth the expense. Support is seriously lagging for any science experiment that doesn't provide great video captions or pictures for the newspaper. Unless you support Soft Science on a Large Scale it is eventually going to be impossible to get money for anything but a better bullet or bomb.
To use a business analogy "You have to spend money to make money." Big Science can only make money by providing a supporting role and then living on the coat tails of Soft Science.
That said Bush is solely show boating the Manned Space Exploration in order to appease Joe Taxpayer's apprehension on spending any money on science. Truth be told unless it means immediate return of investment I doubt 10% of the administration (or the U.S. government) desires to spend money on "Big Science." They spend enough to keep the academics and educated placated.
No think; How does firing the astronaunts help NASA? How do we garner public funds for this kind of research? How has fear ever helped in the progression of the human race from the Wheel to the Atom Bomb?
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Hail to the Chimp we have chosen for the nation,
Hail to the Chimp! We salute him, one and all.
Hail to the Chimp, as we pledge cooperation
In proud fulfillment of a great, noble call.
Yours is the aim to make this grand country grander,
This you will do, that's our strong, firm belief.
Hail to the one we selected as commander,
Hail to the President! Hail to the Chimp!
But are we learning from repairing/maintaining a station in such an environment.
With every repair NASA should (a word that rarely means we are in federal Buerocracy, I know) be learning about how to live in space. While actual scientific studies are being neglected, science is being advanced solely by living in that harse and unforgiving environment.
I think Castro and his good freind from Venuzuella need to get themselves some Pirates. That way they can Raid the Evil Empires cruel repressive corporate shipping.
It'd give dubbuh a good reason to kick thier *(^.
I can't believe it hasn't been said yet..
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these.
Applied research from the Iraq war finding application in real life? /sarcasm/
Na, dubya wouldn't let science/technology get out of government hands unless it was going to line his pockets.
\sarcasm\
Sorry I got to get in my jabs when I can.
I think the answer to the reason Catholics are so quite is the fact that in the US the vast majority are hunters and peckers of dogma. They take the general "moral history of scripture" and after that hunt and peck around the dogma for rules they can fit into thier own life. The US Catholic Church is an entirely differant entity then the European, Asian, or African Churchs. US Catholics are typically more liberal in thier beleif structures, even if they hide under the blanket of a dogmatic religion; hence all the dirty dirty things you hear about Catholic School Girls.
This coming from a self discribed "Non-Practicing Catholic"
Yes, however given the U.N.'s ineptitude at enforcing even the most straight forward rulings over member states. (I AM NOT TALKING IRAQ, you single minded a$$ who is thinking about flaming me without finishing reading the posting.) The UN has been unable to enforce international copyright law and patent law. Given the nature of the
Beyond that any money to fund a UN run internet agency would have to be supplied by the US since no one else seems to want to fund the organization. Try selling this idea to the American Taxpayer.
I want to hand over control of a former US Defense agency project that has since become a vital centerpiece of the global economy over the United Nations. Oh and well still have to pay all the costs associated with maintaining it, but lose all the jobs of maintaining/controlling it to places like Switzerland, who in turn will outsource to India and China; who by the way are going to use their access to steal the intellectual property of the Developed World.
Ya, that guy will get reelected in minutes.
When people start thinking about the global good the UN might have a chance. Until then they can continue spewing the words out while pilfering the charitable coffers of the ideologically challenged developed world.
I agree, lets make a moon base, man it with all the defenseless women and children, and have Bush say on National Television, "Lets see you try something now. Eh comrade? Eh??"
Insightful???
WTF
I think the mods fell off the turnip truck. (Or at least smoked way to much pot at the last democratic convention.)
Given how the Hurricane has rectified the Republicans redistricting problems in Lousiana by shifting the fast hoards of refugees (see: Southern Urban Democrats) to firmly Republican districts in Texas (A firmly Republican State)I think it was all a ploy by the sifty SOB's in the Conservative Think Tanks. Castro was right we have had the ability to control Hurricanes and use them as weapons.......
Sorry I have a strange thing about Fundy Conspiracy Theories.
..........Now they're causing global warming on Mars.
Interesting side note:
o ud-ap.htm
"The Department of Commerce requested a priority effort is given to getting the New Orleans Air Products liquid hydrogen facility back into operation as quickly as possible. The facility represents 31% of North American industrial hydrogen production.
A total of 44% of America's liquid hydrogen supply has been lost due to a previously scheduled shut down of APCs hydrogen plant in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada."
http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/facility/mich
Still think the United States can claim to have a "Hydrogen Economy" when 44% of hydrogen production capacity is down and noone seemed to notice?
Get real.
I get 10 rods to the dead cat and that's the way I like it.
I believe the problem came with the indiscrimate use of the word "they". Don't worry gets NPR and NYT's in trouble all the time.
Bring back Galton!!!!
Control the population, breed us better stronger then before.... Ha ha ha cackle cackle hack cough....
Bush just got the majority that counted, gotta love that electoral college.
>4. "Infotainment" instead of informed news. Fox >News anybody?
Try listening to NPR if you would like an opposing slant. (And it's partually funded by tax dollars.)
>5. Controlfreak-behavior everywhere. Controlling >what people with their information, controlling >foreigners/terrorists/everything, etc.
Define Control Freak. I have yet to meet someone who has been delibriately harrassed by the federal government. (Discounting Airport Security which most frequent fliers believe is much better and feels safer then pre-9/11). I know my internet content is free of filtering cause your posting came up.
>6. Manipulated Science Papers to receive funding.
>7. Polically motivated resaerch to bring a >certain politically favoured outcome.
Whatever brings in money for research nowdays usually has to be profitable if commerically funded or delibriately non-profit to get federal funding.
>8. Removing of non-PC topics from school books >(like "fanatism", "racial issues", in some cases >"evolution theory").
Have to agree here.
>9. Huge defense budget (instead of using the >money >otherwise).
Largest in the world $ for $, average on a per capita spending basis
>10. Religious (christian) fundamentalism.
Amazing the way that you point to Christian Fundimentalism when Islamic Fundamentalists are blowing themselves up in the name of religion and Hindi Fundamentalists are Suidide assulting Islamic Mosques.
Sure Christian Fundamentalist are on the rise but they lack the spit and polish of the other religions.
>11. Campains to make the US the most disliked >country on this planet, even by its allies.
"Campaigns" Talk about American education slipping.
Thanks for the good idea.
Asian Continental War
UN fights to keep nukes on the ground.
US, EU, and Russia sell arms to all sides
Rest of world goes down toilet but developed world doesn't care because their oil costs less.
Is it me or are today's liberals nothing but Malthusians unable to accept inevitability.
What an oppurtunity for the physics students of the world. Lets get together with Ron Popiel and invent a gravitational device that will Knock this planet into orbit around Venus.
Here's my plan how...............
1. Discover Useless Iceball in outer System
2. Knock world into differant orbit
3. ?????????
4. Terriform
5. PROFIT!!!!!!!
Well, that's democracy for you.
Majority wins, minority losses, sucks huh
Beyond that Pepsi colluded with the Soviet Union During the Cold War. By selling it's syrup to the communist government in exchange for vodka, they attempted to get themselves intigrated into the Eastern block countries since Coke had swept through Western Europe with the Allied advance.
Pepsi has since been bitten in the rear by thier own scheme since after the fall of the Iron Curtian pepsi was seen as a holdover from the Communist Era while Coke was seen as coming with the overwelming swoosh of products from the West.
Now, the big question, did Pepsi in Russia use cane sugar? Discuss.
It would be if the feel good leftists who fight for this stuff got thier priority's straight and didn't knock down every cost effective alternative energy project;
Nuclear: Unsafe waste that needs to be stored and no good place to put it.
Wind Farms: They kill birds;
Hydroelectric plants: Disrupt Natural fisheries.
Solar power is not cost effective yet, biomass is still untested and to expessive (however shows great promice), and geothermal is really not expoitable enough to successfully power any economy. Except Iceland....
Hydrogen is a storage medium and not an energy solution (however power savings potential with hydrogen storage cells plugged into the national energy grid will be of great help, and could be of great help in the public transport sector.)
All in all we have no solution on the horizon that is going to solve the problem unless the government looks at cost/benefit analysis and makes an educated descion or to on what to fund.
You forgot to metion my all time favorite conviction rounds of perjury and obstruction of justice of a Congressional Investigation.
Now I'll sit back and watch my karma plummet because I knocked down the man who built up the biggest economic bubble since the margin trading schemes of the roaring 20's.
Because science takes a second seat to defense in this administration as it has to every other in the history of the United States.
You want something differant you have two choices:
1 - Use a Cattle prod to get the democratic party into some semblance of shape.
2 - Form your own damn country. Really don't eb afraid that without a military you will only to be taken over by the US the second you devolop technology someone else wants.
Idealism is not quite as simple when you don't scream it out isn't it.
I hate to repost my own commentary but some of you just don't seem to get it.
Currently the Federal Government has alot of problems getting the average tax payer to want to spend money on research of any kind. It isn't interesting and most people equate it to spending $115.00 a hammer or research into the medicinal properties of Timber Owl pellets.
Manned Space Exploration in the early years of NASA and the Soft Science of the Apollo Missions was seen as exciting and worth the expense. Support is seriously lagging for any science experiment that doesn't provide great video captions or pictures for the newspaper. Unless you support Soft Science on a Large Scale it is eventually going to be impossible to get money for anything but a better bullet or bomb.
To use a business analogy "You have to spend money to make money." Big Science can only make money by providing a supporting role and then living on the coat tails of Soft Science.
That said Bush is solely show boating the Manned Space Exploration in order to appease Joe Taxpayer's apprehension on spending any money on science. Truth be told unless it means immediate return of investment I doubt 10% of the administration (or the U.S. government) desires to spend money on "Big Science." They spend enough to keep the academics and educated placated.
No think;
How does firing the astronaunts help NASA?
How do we garner public funds for this kind of research?
How has fear ever helped in the progression of the human race from the Wheel to the Atom Bomb?