Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Actually, if you read that whole letter at MSN, I think the point of it was the money could be better spent healing and feeding people.
As opposed to the way much larger sums of money being spent to kill folks in Iraq?
The thing about spending money on pure science is that you can rarely predict where things might lead, and an awful lot of beneficial stuff has come from the side tracks of such research.
A legitimate argument, but including that line about relying on Genesis for scientific fact just grits my teeth. I've been reading too much about the difficulties biology teachers have been having in schools to take it lightly. t goes back to banging head on desk...
Am I the only one who thought "At Tenagra" when they read this?
Well, you're not alone now.
The thing about spending money on pure science is that you can rarely predict where things might lead, and an awful lot of beneficial stuff has come from the side tracks of such research.
Like silent velcro.
Like silent velcro.
I was thinking freeze-dried ice cream sandwiches, but that works, too.
I don't have silent velcro, so it doesn't count.
As opposed to the way much larger sums of money being spent to kill folks in Iraq?It was in response to an article on this comet experiment, right?
The thing about spending money on pure science is that you can rarely predict where things might lead, and an awful lot of beneficial stuff has come from the side tracks of such research.Absolutely. And people are always quick to criticize space programs in particular, and a lot of the advances, particularly in medicine, have resulted from space program related research.
It was in response to an article on this comet experiment, right?
Yup, my feeling is that it would be better to fund stuff like the comet expedition, while instead taking the much larger amounts of money we're spending not very effectively to defeat Iraq, and use that for the needy.
As opposed to the way much larger sums of money being spent to kill folks in Iraq?
Isn't the cost of Iraq is about $300 billion now?
Isn't the cost of Iraq is about $300 billion now?
Yeah, I think so. Which means Operation Comet Spank cost about 1/1000 of that.