Has anyone ever said something SO surprising to you, you couldnt understand how they

[Ben Kenobi]

How could he tell you his internet wasn't working while communicating via internet?

[Al B. Sure!]

Obiwan... easy to explain... i've had the same thing happen to be many times on AOL Instant Messenger. For example, i'm talking to someone and they are quiet for a while and then i found that they had been disconnected and didn't get any of my messages though, to me, they were always online... i've also done the same thing to other people, being disconnected and saying sorry and the person on the other end positive i was never disconnected.


thanks

[Ben Kenobi]

True, but if you think that hard, you spoil the joke.

[Al B. Sure!]

obiwan:

it was a bad joke to begin with

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

I remember when I just got into uni at the age of 18, this gorgeous woman, half Chinese and half Spanish, who came from the Barbados, just came up to me one day and said, "Hi, I am Judy, lets go have a cup of tea."

Dreams don't count .

Sounds that way, doesn't it?

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
Obiwan... easy to explain... i've had the same thing happen to be many times on AOL Instant Messenger. For example, i'm talking to someone and they are quiet for a while and then i found that they had been disconnected and didn't get any of my messages though, to me, they were always online... i've also done the same thing to other people, being disconnected and saying sorry and the person on the other end positive i was never disconnected.


thanks

But the only problem is....We were communicating seconds before, and a minute after

[MRT144]

"we can breath underwater"

- said by my brother ben

"i didnt kick him in the groin, he walked into my foot"

- said by my brother rob

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by BustaMike


I think it would be ignorant because of the tremendous amount of things that can be directly attributed to the space program. These are just a select few http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/spinoffs2.htm that I found doing a 5 sec. google search. Some of this stuff (i.e. medical imaging, fire equipment) seems pretty damn important. By completely cutting space program funding, you're also completely cutting the research that creates these things, and I find that ignorant. That's all.

I also get a bit dismissive when people mention techonologies directly attributable to the space programme. Although these technologies come from such programmes the solutions are not exclusive to it. That is to say we could have developed them without the space programme.

I'm also certain that all the Earth based technologies developed from Apollo could have been developed for well under the $25 billion spent on the programme.

If we are doing space travel for the technology I think it a waste of resources that could be better spent. The technology spin-offs just take a bit of edge off the astronomical (no pun intended) costs involved.



I do think space missions are important, and would like to increase funding. Its not a question of economics or applied use of knowledge gained. I think the things we can acheive and things we can learn are, in and of themselves, important.

[Immortal Wombat]

Re: Has anyone ever said something SO surprising to you, you couldnt understand how they

Originally posted by Vesayen
ALWAYS had a big interest in spaceflight, stars etc.....
"Oh I cant stand sci-fi or anything to do with space. All those people really just wanna go to other planets, which dosent effect us at all, its all such a waste of time. Anything to do with exploring or studying space is a waste"

Never take seriously anyone who confuses "affect" with "effect"

[DAVOUT]

Originally posted by Big Crunch


I think the things we can acheive and things we can learn are, in and of themselves, important.

And the things we can dream of ...

[Q Classic]

everything like microwaves and velcro and all that are side products that did not come from exploring space.

velcro did come from the space race.

it was developed to help astronauts spacewalk. their inspiration was the brambles on the ground, yes, but that application would not have been thought of had it not been for the gemini project.

in any case, i hope we get back into space as quickly as possible. there's a lot of potential out there, but it'll require lots of investment.

===

lewis black has a good bit about things that just make your head hurt -- and that they lead to an aneurysm.
his example was hearing a girl say, "if it weren't for my horse, i wouldn't have spent that year in college."

[SlowwHand]

Tang. Tang came from the space race. Didn't it?

[monolith94]

"The majority of rape victims got what they wanted".

[Q Classic]

Tang. Tang came from the space race. Didn't it?

SHH!!!!!!!!! that's not something to be proud about!

[Japher]

I also get a bit dismissive when people mention techonologies directly attributable to the space programme. Although these technologies come from such programmes the solutions are not exclusive to it. That is to say we could have developed them without the space programme.

I disagree. Necessity is the mother of invention. What other environment would require such necessities which would lead to such inventions as plastic?

Yet, using invention as a justification for space exploration is rediculous. The mere fact that curiosity is part of human nature should cover it enough, coupled with the fact the other two parts of human nature are explotation and destruction, space is just a logical approach. Satelites for communications, spying, destroying would not be possible at all if it were not for the space program, but it was not for communications that the billions was spent to get up there... It was to spy on the commies!