Nasa is a waste of funds!

[Willem]

Originally posted by Anun Ik Oba
I guess that's the point: when's the last time they found a groovy-thing Y? I mean, something attainable, not just more pretty pictures of the edge of the universe.

They've discovered that there's a lot of water on both the moon and Mars. That leaves open the possibility of people someday living on both bodies. This discovery on Mars in particular would never have been made if it wasn't for NASA.

Oh yes, I forgot the Europa, the moon orbiting Jupiter that just may support life beneath it's frozen crust. We wouldn't ever have known that without the space program.

I'd say that pretty exciting stuff myself.

[Velociryx]

Not trying to be mean, Doc....but every point that I and a great many others have made (and we're not talking conjectural stuff either, look at the recently posted links) have been unilaterally ignored and cast aside as BS.

So....what's left to say?

You have your opinion, and are welcome to it. A lot of people, however, hold a markedly different one.

-=Vel=-

[Ming]

Originally posted by Docfeelgood
This is how you really feel about what I think?

You seem to think everybody else is misguided...

Enjoy your week off... Good Job MtG.

"What we have here, is failure to communicate."... so true... so true.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Originally posted by Willem


No, it would mean investing in infrastructure and equipment so that they can grow their own food.

"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime."

In fact, just removing the huge subsidies that both US and the EU give to their farmers would go a long way to alleviating world hunger. The developing nations would actually have an export that makes them money, instead of having to rely on the IMF and handouts from more prosperous nations.

Now there's a waste of money, paying people not to grow things.

Giving away food as Doc suggests is at best a temporary remedy.

[Willem]

Originally posted by Docfeelgood
No person all mornin long has given me one good reason as to why NASA should exist!

We've given you all sorts of reasons but you refuse to acknowledge any of it! Frankly, I think you have the honour of being the most closeminded person I've ever come across on Apolyton. I feel sorry for you, I really do. You're incapable of seeing the potential of what mankind can be. You're like a small child who plays with a cardboard box, after opening the really cool toy it's parents bought it. You simply fail to see the wonder in our destiny.

And yes it is our destiny. Someday we actually will send a space ship to Alpha Centauri. Provided people like you don't end up running this world. If that happens, we'll be trapped here if a killer asteroid does ever come our way, and we won't stand a chance.

[Ming]

HEY... the warnings were meant for EVERYBODY.

Discuss the issues... fine. But stop with the personal crap. THIS IS THE LAST WARNING!

[Willem]

Originally posted by Docfeelgood


If you can't convince me, how you gonna convence congress in the near future when Nasa is to be dissolved?

Of course, that's why Bush just increased their budget by $500 million dollars.

Finally he does something right!

[Az]

What we have here, is failure to communicate.

See you in a week.

[Willem]

Originally posted by Velociryx


Hard to grow much in the desert. I mean, we've got some sturdy strains of wheat (courtesy of Doc's Waste-o-time science and all), but they do need a LITTLE water....

Well considering that many farmers around the world still use oxen to plough their fields tells me that there's a lot of room for improvement over what they have now.

[Ben Kenobi]

Azazel,

Would you like it if someone laughed at you for getting restricted?

Please, let it be.

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by Docfeelgood
Billions of dollars spent and many lives lost for CELL PHONES?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?


sad

hey hey hey, lets not forget the whole pursuit of science and knowledge. That is what I live for. That is the main purpose of NASA, I believe. Thanks to the Hubble space telescope, Apollo program, numerous probes, we've learned incredible things about the solar system and universe within which we exist. I can understand you holding the value of life above materialistic stuff, but this knowledge is priceless to me.

NASA

[Ramo]

Ramo, private corporations in other countries were free to persue such technologies. They didn't. There is no reason to believe that short-sighted American corporations would have been any different.

Research in other industrialized states, in general, has been heavily state-subsidized as well... It's been pretty universal in the West and Japan. The reason that the US has been coming up with all of these innovations is simply because the US has been so much stronger in terms of available resources to carry out the research.

And doesn't Bell Labs get an awful lot of government contracts?

I'm sure that the gov't partially funds Bell Labs, but I don't know if they contract out projects to them.

[Boris Godunov]

*So tempted to start a thread about a certain poster being a waste of skin*

My restraint astounds even me...

[Velociryx]

You're a good man, Boris.

-=Vel=-
(even if you have a freaky avatar! )

[Ming]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
*So tempted to start a thread about a certain poster being a waste of skin*

My restraint astounds even me...

I hope your restraint holds... because if you (or anybody else for that matter) do, or continue picking on Doc personally in this thread, you will get the same thing he did for making personal attacks.

Is that clear