JCC curiosity makes big water discovery on mars ( wow moment)

In some senses it is politically icky, but a good deal of it is a kind of elitism. I mean, we have scientists now searching the sky for active Dyson Spheres and the like.

 

sons of failure eh? who took a wiz in your cereal this morning princess?

 

We also have "scientists" in nairobi researching if magnets have any correlation to gay marriage.

 

nairobi aint the usa or japan so they are irrelivant to this discussion

 

It's not like terrible scientists with misplaced priorities are only limited to the third world. Plenty of them in the US and Japan.

 

Please tell me you aren't seriously under the impression that only the United States and Japan contribute to the scientific community.

 

no im saying between japan and the usa we just seem to be the more advanced. japan is already like 10 years ahead of us wile the usa is 10 years ahead of other countries like india china middleast

 

... I don't even know where to begin.

 

::makes frantic "cut it off" motions::

 

"middleast"

 

I hate everything.

 

i... i just...

i made you this

 

I shall name him "Simon".

 

It's funny that folks go on about bad science that I have never posted. One post about warp drive being slightly less implausable and OMG SASQUATCH SCIENCE! So serious. Take some pills.

 

Pills? Like the ones that replaced food?

 

Hey now, Ray Kerzweil did that. Although he still eats bananas.

 

These are always my favorite threads in the JCC. Ramza and Vivec are the Statler and Waldorf of JCC science threads.

 

Goddamn kids these days with them telescopes! Back in my day we sat around and navel gazed and WE LIKED IT. It's those young whipersnappers who had the gall to look up at the sky and wonder what was up there that shot our civilization to hell! Couldn't they read the "Look, don't touch" sign?

 

This thread will forever be notorious for inspiring Beezel's first parody thread.

 

Me, I'm just hoping to see the day when all JCCers can properly distinguish between "it's" and "its".

 

The highlighted part is the only thing I really object to. There are plenty of reasons to be hugely excited about astronomy, astrophysics, and space exploration. There are some great arguments for dumping significant resources into it (in terms of money and manpower both). But "something from outer space could destroy us" is certainly not one of them, to my mind. If you mean asteroids, then developing a comprehensive early warning system or even a missile defense of some kind (such as our current level of technology allows) really isn't that difficult, and represents a minority of what is actually going on in these fields.

If on the other hand you meant evil space aliens. . .I'm not going to pretend to be something other than dismissive of that notion. This is what I'm trying to say. Can't we just talk about liking or justifying some real world policy without having to resort to some crazy flight of fancy? Can we not treat Independence Day like its some prescient look into our future?

 

Well to be fair, a better summary of that article would be "warp drive being slightly the same degree of impossible".

 

They're made of . . . dry ice.

They're made of CO2.