Thread: Organics found on Mars!

Originally Posted by honedright

It's 'cause you know you love me. May disagree with me at times, but you love me all the same.

Well if we are all going to get all lovey dubby... lets focus on the good things - we all shave here right? Hence we aren't pinko commies as:

What!! No "likes"??

I got to work on my sense of humor...

Originally Posted by earcutter

What!! No "likes"??

I got to work on my sense of humor...

There, I gave you one. Just tuned back in, saw it, and I thought it was funny.

You know, the wierd thing about online forums, and these discussions, they are a strange phenomenon. Had we all been sitting together in a proper pub, smoking pipes and cigars (hopefully not bloody smelly cigs) having a round of beers the discussion would have been very different.

MLA would have said, " Hey guys, NASA says they found organics on Mars" to which we would have responded, "Shut up and sit down, the games back on."

Things would be so much friendlier. Just my Op.

Originally Posted by earcutter

Well if we are all going to get all lovey dubby... lets focus on the good things - we all shave here right? Hence we aren't pinko commies as:

I think you forgot this guy:

Hello all:

As I am a contractor to NASA I know I am a bit biased but NASA provides so much to our society that usually isn't spoken. What other company will fund a scientist long enough to get a proof of concept and let him leave to start a company what provides that very concept to the world?

Now, I don't go in with my eyes closed. I see waste everywhere in NASA. But I usually see it in the contracts with the big suppliers who are DOD contractors. I personally believe that if more contracts were given to slightly smaller contractors we would save 1/2 to 3/4 of EVERY budget item.

Here is some of the good from NASA though:

NASA Technologies Benefit Our Lives

Your health care very much is affected by NASA! Innovation needs creativity and creativity requires lofty goals!

Personally, my priorities of tax expenditures are:
1. Schools (because education is the "silver bullet").
2. Public libraries.
3. Infrastructure (roads, bridges and the like).
4. Scientific R&D.
5. Defence.
When NASA put astronauts on the moon, I thought (and still think) that it was the most awesome thing ever! Like many of you, I was glued to the TV that whole day!
Just my $0.02.