Politics, duck

[sapote]

My favorite part of our debate-watching potluck last night was when McCain was carrying on about that three million dollar planetarium projector Obama approved funding for, and the people next to me kept going "What an unbelievably awesome thing to spend money on."

Me, I think the bear DNA thing sounded pretty cool too. Why do they always seem to call out the cool science funding first?

Comments

[porntestpilot.livejournal.com]

I never understood why they cut funding from SETA. It's a good program, with interesting results, with every little effort/money needed.

As opposed to things like a manned mission to Mars, which is ridiculous. We need to focus on AI probes that can function in diverse conditions that can terraform Mars into livable conditions before we pull the publicity stunt of sending people to Mars.

Yes, we will have to also work on technology...wait, I think I got off subject. Look up in the sky more!

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

You know what's interesting to me is - I'm not even, personally, all that into space exploration. Yes! I know! Even though I cry at the end of Babylon 5 EVERY TIME. But the awesome thing about human diversity is, I can be over here caring about crop rotation while someone else is caring about where we're going to go if that comet hits us.

I just think that's neat. Yay science.

[porntestpilot.livejournal.com]

That's true - and it's important we all care about different branches of science because that is what has kept us moving forward - technological advancement overall.

I care about crop rotation of hops, does that count?

Yay science.

Always.