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  • Laz
    Laz Posts: 118
    Stephen Hawking needs to figure out how to get us into hyperspace
  • jimdietrich
    jimdietrich Posts: 42
    No one answered the question. How do you as a human go into the room and piss money away like that with so many suffering and can acctualy be helped by this money. Health care, perscription drugs, kids dying of starvation. How can you spend billions and turn your back on so many others?
    Anger is a gift
  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    jimdietrich wrote:
    No one answered the question. How do you as a human go into the room and piss money away like that with so many suffering and can acctualy be helped by this money. Health care, perscription drugs, kids dying of starvation. How can you spend billions and turn your back on so many others?


    Maybe the people of NO need to get themselves a powerfull lobby to donate millions of dollars to either party and then they would start to matter. People talk about the amount of many being mismanaged in our social welfare programs but noone, not even the government gives a shit about the millions of dollars that are waisted yearly on such failed or failing programs such as the Missle Defense Shield. The government mostly cares about making money for the people that really keep them in power, and we are not part of the equation.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • flywallyfly
    flywallyfly Posts: 1,453
    Kanye West doesnt like Mars. Or the moon.
  • Laz
    Laz Posts: 118
    jimdietrich wrote:
    No one answered the question. How do you as a human go into the room and piss money away like that with so many suffering and can acctualy be helped by this money. Health care, perscription drugs, kids dying of starvation. How can you spend billions and turn your back on so many others?


    I don't know how can they turn their backs on others? Maybe they (whoever they is) don't consider turning their backs such a bad thing as others do? Priorities man...
  • baraka
    baraka Posts: 1,268
    don't gimme no wrote:
    That's what Stephen Hawking says as well. However, I'm under the impression that global warming will kill us long before we're even close to living on another planet.


    http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060613/D8I7ADB81.html

    Hawking Says Humans Must Go Into Space

    Jun 13, 7:50 AM (ET)

    By SYLVIA HUI

    (AP) Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking from the University of Cambridge, front, is accompanied by...
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    HONG KONG (AP) - The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the Earth, world-renowned scientist Stephen Hawking said Tuesday.

    The British astrophysicist told a news conference in Hong Kong that humans could have a permanent base on the moon in 20 years and a colony on Mars in the next 40 years.

    "We won't find anywhere as nice as Earth unless we go to another star system," added Hawking, who arrived to a rock star's welcome Monday. Tickets for his lecture planned for Wednesday were sold out.

    He added that if humans can avoid killing themselves in the next 100 years, they should have space settlements that can continue without support from Earth.

    "It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species," Hawking said. "Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of."

    The 64-year-old scientist - author of the global best seller "A Brief History of Time" - is wheelchair-bound and communicates with the help of a computer because he suffers from a neurological disorder called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.

    Hawking said he's teaming up with his daughter to write a children's book about the universe, aimed at the same age range as the Harry Potter books.

    "It is a story for children, which explains the wonders of the universe," his daughter, Lucy, added.

    They didn't provide other details.
    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance,
    but the illusion of knowledge.
    ~Daniel Boorstin

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    ~Albert Einstein
  • Eliot Rosewater
    Eliot Rosewater Posts: 2,659
    mammasan wrote:
    Maybe the people of NO need to get themselves a powerfull lobby to donate millions of dollars to either party and then they would start to matter. People talk about the amount of many being mismanaged in our social welfare programs but noone, not even the government gives a shit about the millions of dollars that are waisted yearly on such failed or failing programs such as the Missle Defense Shield. The government mostly cares about making money for the people that really keep them in power, and we are not part of the equation.
    Terribly sad, but that is absolutely the answer to the original question.
  • CenterCity
    CenterCity Posts: 193
    jimdietrich wrote:
    How is it that congress will pass a multi billion dollar bill to fund the exploration of the moon and mars today, and the people of New Orleans here on earth still can't afford to fix their houses and move home?


    i know what you mean.....its like priorities.....but i wouldn't put space exploration and the new orleans tragedy in the same category.....not from the same list. and we know that all this stuff can in fact be taken care of at the same time as we've seen from past governments.

    its probably that the space bill has been in the works for years.

    surely there is someone in congress working on the new orleans tragedy--and probably also looking into what went wrong. in the meantime, its good to know that people are still helping new orleans fix the houses.
    I need to finish writing.
  • eddies grrl
    eddies grrl Posts: 509
    jimdietrich wrote:
    How is it that congress will pass a multi billion dollar bill to fund the exploration of the moon and mars today, and the people of New Orleans here on earth still can't afford to fix their houses and move home?

    i guess that answer lies in how much money stands to be made from each pursuit, and who'd be making it.
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    Of which we're caught in the middle.
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    Tangled up in too much love
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  • jimdietrich
    jimdietrich Posts: 42
    CenterCity wrote:
    i know what you mean.....its like priorities.....but i wouldn't put space exploration and the new orleans tragedy in the same category.....not from the same list. and we know that all this stuff can in fact be taken care of at the same time as we've seen from past governments.

    its probably that the space bill has been in the works for years.

    surely there is someone in congress working on the new orleans tragedy--and probably also looking into what went wrong. in the meantime, its good to know that people are still helping new orleans fix the houses.
    I hope you are kidding. How sure are you that someone in congress is working on New Orleans? How sure are you that some one is working on health care?
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  • Eliot Rosewater
    Eliot Rosewater Posts: 2,659
    CenterCity wrote:
    i know what you mean.....its like priorities.....but i wouldn't put space exploration and the new orleans tragedy in the same category...
    Agreed. Not at all in the same category, and obviously it's necessary to have more than one government program running at a time. The problem is there are billions and billions of dollars wasted on a seemingly useless program like NASA so they're an obvious target when there is something far more urgent that's been neglected, such as N.O.
    CenterCity wrote:
    surely there is someone in congress working on the new orleans tragedy--and probably also looking into what went wrong.
    Uh huh...right after we deal with the immediate and urgent threats of flag-burning and "protecting" marriage....oh and I almost forgot about the NY Times....that's apparently far more urgent and important for congress to waste their time on than N.O. too.
  • rightondude
    rightondude Posts: 745
    wait a sec.. haven't you used up all your "ask a question" quota this week?
  • CenterCity
    CenterCity Posts: 193
    jimdietrich wrote:
    I hope you are kidding. How sure are you that someone in congress is working on New Orleans? How sure are you that some one is working on health care?


    well i know that for each major issue, the congress is divided into little groups or speciality groups for each of these issues. history book stuff man.
    I need to finish writing.
  • CenterCity
    CenterCity Posts: 193
    don't gimme no wrote:
    Agreed. Not at all in the same category, and obviously it's necessary to have more than one government program running at a time. The problem is there are billions and billions of dollars wasted on a seemingly useless program like NASA so they're an obvious target when there is something far more urgent that's been neglected, such as N.O.


    Uh huh...right after we deal with the immediate and urgent threats of flag-burning and "protecting" marriage....oh and I almost forgot about the NY Times....that's apparently far more urgent and important for congress to waste their time on than N.O. too.


    you think NASA is a useless program?

    again....the government isn't like oh okay....today we're going to just deal with flag burning or marriage.....there are a many number of urgent issues that need to be dealt with simultaneously.
    I need to finish writing.
  • Eliot Rosewater
    Eliot Rosewater Posts: 2,659
    CenterCity wrote:
    you think NASA is a useless program?

    again....the government isn't like oh okay....today we're going to just deal with flag burning or marriage.....there are a many number of urgent issues that need to be dealt with simultaneously.
    Certainly there is a need for prioritization. Am I wrong? The reason they discuss issues such as flag-burning and "protecting" marriage (especially right now) is solely because it may appeal to their base.

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