Michael Barnes wrote: Not quite. Why don't we get Black Barney to tell us about the Canadian Space Program?
Damnit; that would have been a perfect close to my ranty second post (though, I believe that the Freakout Friday-appropriate term for our northern neighbors is "Frostbacks"). I'm ashamed to have missed that.
Since I know next to nothing about the Candian Space Agency, I decided to check out their website (
www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/default.asp
). Their webpage would lead one to believe that one of their top "priorities" is investigating the War of 1812. (I presume that "Priorities" box is some bit of national government-mandated messaging/branding design but it seems so out of place as to be jarring.)
charlieturtle wrote: Even NASA still admits that Warp Drive is still in the speculation phase.
So 'speculation phase' just means 'watching Star Trek when you're trashed and making shit up'.
Anyway, couple of days ago my students were talking about manned Mars trips while I was poo pooing the idea for at least a couple of generations. Only reason NASA had moon landings in the first place, was due to the competition of the cold war and that was hugely expensive.
Personally, why the fuck aren't we exploring the 70% of this planet we know nothing about...the oceans? Shit, it would be a lot easier technologically speaking, to put cities on the ocean floor as opposed to colonising the moon. At least there is already fucking oxygen and water down there. OK pressure is super high but, one would have thought, an equivalent tech problem re zero pressure in space.Lack of meteorites and radiation ought to help as well.
charlieturtle wrote: Even NASA still admits that Warp Drive is still in the speculation phase.
So 'speculation phase' just means 'watching Star Trek when you're trashed and making shit up'.
Anyway, couple of days ago my students were talking about manned Mars trips while I was poo pooing the idea for at least a couple of generations. Only reason NASA had moon landings in the first place, was due to the competition of the cold war and that was hugely expensive.
It's two things, we want to show the world we still have the largest balls on the planet. We also do things like this to have an excuse to suck up the best scientists in a field so they aren't developing weapons for other countries.
ThirstyMan wrote: Personally, why the fuck aren't we exploring the 70% of this planet we know nothing about...the oceans? Shit, it would be a lot easier technologically speaking, to put cities on the ocean floor as opposed to colonising the moon. At least there is already fucking oxygen and water down there. OK pressure is super high but, one would have thought, an equivalent tech problem re zero pressure in space.Lack of meteorites and radiation ought to help as well.
We are exploring down there. New findings are occuring all the time. But unless James Cameron's name is attached it never gets any press.
I wish some middle-eastern country or China or North Korea or Eurasia or Eastasia or whoever would really put together a well-funded and competent space program.
Then I bet we'd get to see Congress go into holy-shit-they're-coming-right-for-us overdrive mode and start spending more on NASA and other basic research.
Well, I hope that would happen. Really we'd probably just invade because the Bible says we should, right?
wadenels wrote: I wish some middle-eastern country or China or North Korea or Eurasia or Eastasia or whoever would really put together a well-funded and competent space program.
Then I bet we'd get to see Congress go into holy-shit-they're-coming-right-for-us overdrive mode and start spending more on NASA and other basic research.
Well, I hope that would happen. Really we'd probably just invade because the Bible says we should, right?
When North Korea pulls itself up out of the stone age and unlocks the mystery of growing rice, When the Middle-East comes to grips with it not being the 12th century anymore, then I'll start worrying about those two.
China could do it but probably won't.
And when you say "Bible says we should" invade. What you really mean is the Koran, right? Don't really recall the Bible discussing the imperative to invade.
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