Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer is a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071603486.html" target="_new"> proponent of space travel</a>, yet he thinks it's wasteful to spend billions on expanding health care coverage ("Poverty and disease and social ills will always be with us."). Policy analyst Ezra Klein <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/07/on_the_moon.html" target="_new">pokes at Krauthammer's thought process</a>, and Matt Yglesias <a href="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/07/poverty-will-always-be-with-us-until-we-do-something-about-it.php" target="_new"> follows up</a> on it.
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Space Travel????? What is the point??
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by SallyLightfoot » Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:37 am
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by SallyLightfoot » Mon Jul 20, 2009 7:53 am
If you think spending on space is better than humanitarian or altruistic uses of taxpayer money, you deserve some form of blame. That kind of reasoning make conservatives look like Far Out Space Nuts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa10IIc4dLo
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by eight6 » Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:04 am
[quote][i]Originally posted by SallyLightfoot[/i]
<br>If you think spending on space is better than humanitarian or altruistic uses of taxpayer money, you deserve some form of blame. That kind of reasoning make conservatives look like Far Out Space Nuts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa10IIc4dLo
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...or we could have sent some of the brothers to the moon...apparently that cures all of life's ills. How hard would it have been to put those spinny hubcaps on the rover anyway?
<br>If you think spending on space is better than humanitarian or altruistic uses of taxpayer money, you deserve some form of blame. That kind of reasoning make conservatives look like Far Out Space Nuts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa10IIc4dLo
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...or we could have sent some of the brothers to the moon...apparently that cures all of life's ills. How hard would it have been to put those spinny hubcaps on the rover anyway?
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by phillyidol » Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:07 am
or we could use the money wasted on welfare and that alone would pay for a colony on Mars.
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by MARV » Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:47 am
[quote]Originally posted by WoodlandParkPunk
[br]I mean why do we spend billions of dollars on space exploration. What has it ever done for me down here on earth.[/quote]
Here is a list of ways we benefit from the space program right here on Earth. Of particular interest to me personally is how we use various technologies to help care for our planet.....oceans especially.....and that is most groovy [8D]
http://techtran.msfc.nasa.gov/at_home.html
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[br]I mean why do we spend billions of dollars on space exploration. What has it ever done for me down here on earth.[/quote]
Here is a list of ways we benefit from the space program right here on Earth. Of particular interest to me personally is how we use various technologies to help care for our planet.....oceans especially.....and that is most groovy [8D]
http://techtran.msfc.nasa.gov/at_home.html
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by i_like_lectric_motors » Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:01 am
[quote][i]Originally posted by eight6[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by SallyLightfoot[/i]
<br>If you think spending on space is better than humanitarian or altruistic uses of taxpayer money, you deserve some form of blame. That kind of reasoning make conservatives look like Far Out Space Nuts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa10IIc4dLo
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...or we could have sent some of the brothers to the moon...apparently that cures all of life's ills. How hard would it have been to put those spinny hubcaps on the rover anyway?
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The spinner rims are certainly possible. They even make grape Tang. The real question here is how fucked up could one get smoking a crack pipe up there?
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by SallyLightfoot[/i]
<br>If you think spending on space is better than humanitarian or altruistic uses of taxpayer money, you deserve some form of blame. That kind of reasoning make conservatives look like Far Out Space Nuts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa10IIc4dLo
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...or we could have sent some of the brothers to the moon...apparently that cures all of life's ills. How hard would it have been to put those spinny hubcaps on the rover anyway?
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The spinner rims are certainly possible. They even make grape Tang. The real question here is how fucked up could one get smoking a crack pipe up there?
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by Spit » Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:12 am
[quote]Originally posted by WoodlandParkPunk
[br]I mean why do we spend billions of dollars on space exploration.
"You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music." ~ Sid Vicious
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The reaction on this guys face was worth at least a million of those dollars. [:)]
RIP Walter Cronkite
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[br]I mean why do we spend billions of dollars on space exploration.
"You just pick a chord, go twang, and you've got music." ~ Sid Vicious
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The reaction on this guys face was worth at least a million of those dollars. [:)]
RIP Walter Cronkite
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by i_like_lectric_motors » Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:19 am
This thread needs some Buzz!
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by harleytexas » Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:30 am
[quote][i]Originally posted by i_like_lectric_motors[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by eight6[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by SallyLightfoot[/i]
<br>If you think spending on space is better than humanitarian or altruistic uses of taxpayer money, you deserve some form of blame. That kind of reasoning make conservatives look like Far Out Space Nuts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa10IIc4dLo
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...or we could have sent some of the brothers to the moon...apparently that cures all of life's ills. How hard would it have been to put those spinny hubcaps on the rover anyway?
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The spinner rims are certainly possible. They even make grape Tang. The real question here is how fucked up could one get smoking a crack pipe up there?
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They never would have taken Tang......Kool-Aid!
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by eight6[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by SallyLightfoot[/i]
<br>If you think spending on space is better than humanitarian or altruistic uses of taxpayer money, you deserve some form of blame. That kind of reasoning make conservatives look like Far Out Space Nuts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa10IIc4dLo
[/quote]
...or we could have sent some of the brothers to the moon...apparently that cures all of life's ills. How hard would it have been to put those spinny hubcaps on the rover anyway?
[/quote]
The spinner rims are certainly possible. They even make grape Tang. The real question here is how fucked up could one get smoking a crack pipe up there?
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They never would have taken Tang......Kool-Aid!
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by elektrikblu » Tue Jul 21, 2009 12:44 am
Should we stop dreaming?
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by Frau_Blucher » Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:13 am
You gotta fight...for your right...to space exploraaaaaaaaaaaation.
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by i_like_lectric_motors » Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:25 am
[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>You gotta fight...for your right...to space exploraaaaaaaaaaaation.
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Especially if your astrological sign is Cancer.
<br>You gotta fight...for your right...to space exploraaaaaaaaaaaation.
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Especially if your astrological sign is Cancer.
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