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...
Xander: Hey, Red. What you got in the basket, little girl? Buffy: Weapons.
Xander/Buffy ,'Help'
Natter 36: But We Digress...
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.
Kathy A - Jul 06, 2005 8:39:53 am PDT #7404 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
§ ita § - Jul 06, 2005 8:40:38 am PDT #7405 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Am I the only one who thought "At Tenagra" when they read this?
Well, you're not alone now.
Sue - Jul 06, 2005 8:46:21 am PDT #7406 of 10001
hip deep in pie
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.
DXMachina - Jul 06, 2005 8:48:41 am PDT #7407 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Like silent velcro.
I was thinking freeze-dried ice cream sandwiches, but that works, too.
§ ita § - Jul 06, 2005 8:50:35 am PDT #7408 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't have silent velcro, so it doesn't count.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 06, 2005 8:50:35 am PDT #7409 of 10001
What is even happening?
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.
DXMachina - Jul 06, 2005 8:56:10 am PDT #7410 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
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.
Gudanov - Jul 06, 2005 8:56:30 am PDT #7411 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
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?
tommyrot - Jul 06, 2005 8:58:22 am PDT #7412 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
DavidS - Jul 06, 2005 8:59:57 am PDT #7413 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Isn't the cost of Iraq is about $300 billion now?
Yes, but the important thing is that we've completely eliminated terrorism and that country is now a model of middle eastern democracy.