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Off Topic Forums => Off Topic Forum => Topic started by: WillyWump on December 01, 2010, 09:48:39 pm
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From the NASA website:
MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-167 NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec. 2 WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html
It's clear they are going to announce they have discovered ET.
Theyyyy're heeeeeeerrrrrrrre! (let's hope the aliens have the cure).
Ok, seriously, perhaps it will not be that an Alein has contacted them or vice versa, but this should be some pretty cool news regarding bacterial life on Saturn or another nearby planet (just guessing) No one really knows, but the pundits are guessing it is bacteria or something on Saturn.
http://www.newser.com/story/106596/nasa-press-conference-ignites-et-rumors.html
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lol...well, let's hope that ET's folks survived HIV a billion years ago and they have a shot for it! ;)
yeah, what he said! ;)
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Breaking now:
Further information:
it's a possibility that “Titan is populated by extremely technologically advanced Sephardic Jews
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Breaking now:
Further information:
it's a possibility that “Titan is populated by extremely technologically advanced Sephardic Jews
Just in time for Hannukah no doubt
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Stunning NASA announcement right after Ms. P mysteriously returns from a trip to "New York" --- things that make me go "hmmmmmm." ::)
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Stunning NASA announcement right after Ms. P mysteriously returns from a trip to "New York" --- things that make me go "hmmmmmm." ::)
clearly phil is numb from the news as the kitty is no-longer drumming his fingers.
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lol...well, let's hope that ET's folks survived HIV a billion years ago and they have a shot for it! ;)
yeah, what he said! ;)
The prospect just makes me think of that book Childhood's End
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They will announce that they have found a planet orbiting a distant star within the habitable zone of life (i.e., close but not too close to the sun and not some huge gas giant).
Followed by the plea 'please don't cut our budget, see we do do good work'.
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Seriously? This is the announcement?
(http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af308/IwuvPhilly/NEW-LIFE-NASA.jpg)
I was hoping they would trot out an alien wearing an "I love NY" Tshirt and waving a hot dog around.
Sigh. back to the telescope.
-Will
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Seriously? This is the announcement?
(http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af308/IwuvPhilly/NEW-LIFE-NASA.jpg)
I was hoping they would trot out an alien wearing an "I love NY" Tshirt and waving a hot dog around.
Sigh. back to the telescope.
-Will
What is it ... lets chop it up and snort it just to be on the safe side .
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What is it ... lets chop it up and snort it just to be on the safe side .
I agree, if in doubt, snort it.
-W
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If that announcement isn't justification for cutting NASA's budget, then there will never be adequate justification! We actually paused our day today to login at 2pm...I felt like I was reliving Geraldo Rivera opening up Al Capone's vault all over again. Great, some bacteria can survive on arsenic...and that is going to help the poor, starving, sickly, and dying how??? ???
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If that announcement isn't justification for cutting NASA's budget, then there will never be adequate justification!
You mean cutting the budget that includes groundbreaking HIV research in orbit?
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/science/f_spacecells.html
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:D yeah, that too.
Give their budget to the TAT researchers and Doctors Paul, Lewin, and Margolis for a couple of years. ;)
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You mean cutting the budget that includes groundbreaking HIV research in orbit?
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/science/f_spacecells.html
interesting, but yet 6 years later not another word about NASA and an HIV breakthrough. However, there's something about HIV in space that worries me, and that is we have an accident and the capsule goes of into deep space and infects the aliens and then they get all pissy at us.
-Will
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and that is going to help the poor, starving, sickly, and dying how???
actually isn't that the goal of the NIH and not NASA anyway?
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actually isn't that the goal of the NIH and not NASA anyway?
yeppers, but where do they both get their budgets from?
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:D yeah, that too.
Give their budget to the TAT researchers and Doctors Paul, Lewin, and Margolis for a couple of years. ;)
How many things do you use today that are not spinoffs of NASA projects?
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Darn, I thought they were going to tell us that they found Nibiru again.
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they found Nibiru again.
I had to go google that up. I thought you mistyped and meant Naboo :D
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Stunning NASA announcement right after Ms. P mysteriously returns from a trip to "New York" --- things that make me go "hmmmmmm." ::)
You mean the new Second Genesis arsenic-based life form NASA found? Yes girl, it crawled out of my Holland Tunnel size sphincter after decades of osmosis by huge Dominican cocks. What else were you expecting?
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@ Miss P- you make me laugh out loud when I read your stuff. Too funny!!
@ Leather - yea buddy, that is the planet that is suppose to hit Earth in 2012. If that were true, we should have been able to see it with the naked eye last October (by some accounts).
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How many things do you use today that are not spinoffs of NASA projects?
great argument. But, given the current state of the economy and other things slightly more important than a microbe that can survive on arsenic, I think we can afford to put off a few of those advances for a few years until we get our collective house in order.
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Give their budget to the TAT researchers and Doctors Paul, Lewin, and Margolis for a couple of years. ;)
Radical idea, and I'm on board with it. Maybe operate a bare bones NASA for 2 years, kinda have it idling. Hell arent we hitching rides with the Russians soon anyways? I understand the spinoff quotient too, but meh, what's 2 years.
-W
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Radical idea, and I'm on board with it. Maybe operate a bare bones NASA for 2 years, kinda have it idling. Hell arent we hitching rides with the Russians soon anyways? I understand the spinoff quotient too, but meh, what's 2 years.
-W
BINGO, baby! ;)
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Radical idea, and I'm on board with it. Maybe operate a bare bones NASA for 2 years, kinda have it idling. Hell arent we hitching rides with the Russians soon anyways? I understand the spinoff quotient too, but meh, what's 2 years.
-W
Outsourcing our science projects to other countries is kinda of scary to me . I'm thinking we may need to keep innovation alive here , it may well be the last thing we have to sell to survive , its not like we have manufacturing to fall back on anymore .
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The NASA budget is minuscule in the grand scheme of federal spending, and the fixation with it in the thread is laughable. If you want to cut money look at the Pentagon... lots of waste. Especially the Colorectal specialists in the VA. ::)
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Especially the Colorectal specialists in the VA. ::)
:D :D :D
Errrr....I'd just assume they stay away from the VA budget for "sentimental" (re: selfish) reasons...you understand. ;)
In all seriousness though, if this country is going to move towards a form of nationalized healthcare, I hope they end up with something similar to the care that is provided by the VA (at least the hospital here). I don't know what they put in their koolaid, but the staff is amazing and the usual prohibition against procedures doesn't seem to exist; perhaps because there is not "bottom line" to be concerned about, the staff is salaried, and have great career and retirement opportunities. Similar to what I've read and watched about countries that have a form of socialized medicine, there is an emphasis on preventative medicine and wellcare. I think everyone deserves that.
I'm all for taking NASA's $18.7 billion dollars and moving it into healthcare and education:
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/feb/HQ_09043_Scolese_Budget_Statement.html (http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/feb/HQ_09043_Scolese_Budget_Statement.html)
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Mothball NASA, pull out of Afghanistan and really pull out of Iraq. Spend money fixing American infrastructure and putting people to work old style. See what happens. Keep a decent military budget in case Iran or North Korea go nuts.
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The NASA budget is minuscule in the grand scheme of federal spending, and the fixation with it in the thread is laughable. If you want to cut money look at the Pentagon... lots of waste. Especially the Colorectal specialists in the VA. ::)
Excellent point, NASA budget is less than 1% of the Fedreal budget. Regardless, I wouldnt mind reallocating some of those billions to the above causes, Actually I dont care where the f*ck it comes from, NASA Pentagon, whoeva
-W
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... just don't increase your taxes, right? ::)
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... just don't increase your taxes, right? ::)
actually I'm going to reverse course and say we need not touch NASA at all....as the biggest portion of NASA dollars comes to Texas, and everyone knows Texas is the anchor point of the United States. Although we could take Pennsylvanias 34million allotment, that would help out, and they dont do nothing up there anyways.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/NASA_dollars.jpg
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... just don't increase your taxes, right? ::)
exactly! increase someone else's taxes! ;)
Actually, I've never been one to whine about taxes; it's a form of dues we have to pay for belonging to this club called America. It sucks to be stuck in the middle where very few things are deductible and you don't have enough to benefit from tax shelters, but it could be worse. We could be living in a Third World country without the basic creature comforts that we take for granted. Personally, I tend to be fiscally conservative, but I would be all for paying more in taxes if there was a snowball's chance that our government could successfully implement quality healthcare for all.
At the same time, though, sheesh! Could we maybe become a little more controlled with respect to how we spend and give money away?? As has been said by many, many people..."if I ran my company or household like the government does....."
actually I'm going to reverse course and say we need not touch NASA at all....as the biggest portion of NASA dollars comes to Texas, and everyone knows Texas is the anchor point of the United States. Although we could take Pennsylvanias 34million allotment, that would help out, and they dont do nothing up there anyways.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/NASA_dollars.jpg
On behalf of Florida, I'll give up our $800M...we have Walt Disney World ;)
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I would have ZZERO issues with paying more taxes provided it went to HIv research and ADAP. Zero.
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I would have ZZERO issues with paying more taxes provided it went to HIv research and ADAP. Zero.
And you also thought this pre-diagnosis when you were squeezing out chilluns every other year?
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And you also thought this pre-diagnosis when you were squeezing out chilluns every other year?
What does 23 years ago have to do with now?
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What does 23 years ago have to do with now?
Nothing girl, don't be so touchy.
Oh, did I mention that I just got a SUPA-SECRET txt message from my NASA inside contact that this new form of life, and to be announced tomorrow, hold the cure for HIV?
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Nothing girl, don't be so touchy.
Oh, did I mention that I just got a SUPA-SECRET txt message from my NASA inside contact that this new form of life, and to be announced tomorrow, hold the cure for HIV?
Great! They're gonna start feeding us arsenic...should have seen that coming! :-\
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Nothing girl, don't be so touchy.
I'm sorry I'm jacked up on Testosterone tonight.
Oh, did I mention that I just got a SUPA-SECRET txt message from my NASA inside contact that this new form of life, and to be announced tomorrow, hold the cure for HIV?
Well if its true, than Ive got the cure to HIV in my toilet, cause thats what that new lifeform looks like to me...mere toilet goo.