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Lambert wrote:

Nucks wrote:The amount of US taxpayer money allocated to NASA over the last 50-60 years must be staggering. And for what?

At some point we're going to have to leave this planet. Gotta start somewhere.

I think that once we got that new telescope up there and working, we should divert all funding to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, figure out how to achieve warp drive and get the fuck outta here. Now thats a plan.

Nucks wrote:The amount of US taxpayer money allocated to NASA over the last 50-60 years must be staggering. And for what?

At some point we're going to have to leave this planet. Gotta start somewhere.

NastyNickers wrote:

Trapper John wrote:

NastyNickers wrote:

Trapper John wrote:

Nucks wrote:The amount of US taxpayer money allocated to NASA over the last 50-60 years must be staggering. And for what?

It must be colossal, you wouldn't though if something other than super glue came out of it all. It just appears that all the time and money invested we've progressed very little in terms of Man's involvement in space. In fact we seem to have gone backwards rather than forward.

Loads has come out of NASA. Life saving heart pumps, them in ear thermometers, foil blankets. They have ongoing involvement in artificial limbs too, don’t they?

I haven't got any of those things in my cupboards but I have got super glue.

Scratch resistant lenses, camera phone, memory foam, gold plating on your Oscar?

now you been googling.

Those foil blankets, do they work? The only time I ever see them is wrapped around unfortunate passengers from broken down cars.

They invaribly appear to be shaking like cold turkey alcoholics rather than looking all snuggily and warm.

Trapper John wrote:

NastyNickers wrote:

Trapper John wrote:

Nucks wrote:The amount of US taxpayer money allocated to NASA over the last 50-60 years must be staggering. And for what?

It must be colossal, you wouldn't though if something other than super glue came out of it all. It just appears that all the time and money invested we've progressed very little in terms of Man's involvement in space. In fact we seem to have gone backwards rather than forward.

Loads has come out of NASA. Life saving heart pumps, them in ear thermometers, foil blankets. They have ongoing involvement in artificial limbs too, don’t they?

I haven't got any of those things in my cupboards but I have got super glue.

Scratch resistant lenses, camera phone, memory foam, gold plating on your Oscar?

NastyNickers wrote:

Trapper John wrote:

Nucks wrote:The amount of US taxpayer money allocated to NASA over the last 50-60 years must be staggering. And for what?

It must be colossal, you wouldn't though if something other than super glue came out of it all. It just appears that all the time and money invested we've progressed very little in terms of Man's involvement in space. In fact we seem to have gone backwards rather than forward.

Loads has come out of NASA. Life saving heart pumps, them in ear thermometers, foil blankets. They have ongoing involvement in artificial limbs too, don’t they?

I haven't got any of those things in my cupboards but I have got super glue.

Trapper John wrote:

Nucks wrote:The amount of US taxpayer money allocated to NASA over the last 50-60 years must be staggering. And for what?

It must be colossal, you wouldn't though if something other than super glue came out of it all. It just appears that all the time and money invested we've progressed very little in terms of Man's involvement in space. In fact we seem to have gone backwards rather than forward.

Loads has come out of NASA. Life saving heart pumps, them in ear thermometers, foil blankets. They have ongoing involvement in artificial limbs too, don’t they?

Nucks wrote:The amount of US taxpayer money allocated to NASA over the last 50-60 years must be staggering. And for what?

It must be colossal, you wouldn't though if something other than super glue came out of it all. It just appears that all the time and money invested we've progressed very little in terms of Man's involvement in space. In fact we seem to have gone backwards rather than forward.

The amount of US taxpayer money allocated to NASA over the last 50-60 years must be staggering. And for what?

Trapper John wrote:

Guest wrote:

Trapper John wrote:

Guest wrote:why does everything have to benefit you personally to be deemed worthwhile?

Mankind is an expression of the whole of the human race not just me.

right, so it's an instant fix you're looking for, how do you know these explorations won't benefit people?

knowledge for its own sake is also important, tj.

if you really are that bothered, write to the funding bodies about it.

If I did that instead of making threads on here, I wouldn't need to post here at all - that would be depriving people of my considerable intellect and oracle like foresight.

oh, you're incapable of doing both.

Guest wrote:

Trapper John wrote:

Guest wrote:why does everything have to benefit you personally to be deemed worthwhile?

Mankind is an expression of the whole of the human race not just me.

right, so it's an instant fix you're looking for, how do you know these explorations won't benefit people?

knowledge for its own sake is also important, tj.

if you really are that bothered, write to the funding bodies about it.

If I did that instead of making threads on here, I wouldn't need to post here at all - that would be depriving people of my considerable intellect and oracle like foresight.

Trapper John wrote:

Guest wrote:why does everything have to benefit you personally to be deemed worthwhile?

Mankind is an expression of the whole of the human race not just me.

right, so it's an instant fix you're looking for, how do you know these explorations won't benefit people?

knowledge for its own sake is also important, tj.

if you really are that bothered, write to the funding bodies about it.

Guest wrote:why does everything have to benefit you personally to be deemed worthwhile?

Mankind is an expression of the whole of the human race not just me.

I saw another equally useless expedition on the Discovery channel a few weeks ago.

There are these caves beneath the Mexican desert, discovered by miners a few years back, which I have to say contain the most fantastic natural and gigantic forms of crystal monoliths you could ever imagine, apparently made from gypsum and formed underwater when the caves were flooded for thousands of years.

Thats about it though, apart from the fact that it's so hot in these caves you can only spend 15 minutes in them before you have to get out or you'll die of over-heating. Now that is really it.

Yet for years scientists have been travelling there from all over the world for months on end employing professional climbers and cave experts, medical professionals and other assorted experts, doing esentailly the same thing, looking at the crystals, saying how amazing they are and almost dying of heat exposure.

Surely one visit with some decent HD cameras and some testing equipment would have been sufficient, yet year after year they turn up have a look around for anything up to month at at time then fuck off back to wherever they came from filled with stories of their adventure at other peoples expense and little else.

why does everything have to benefit you personally to be deemed worthwhile?