I might be the only person in America who also cringes with embarrassment when they do a fly over (or whatever it’s called) with fighter jets at sports events. And yes, I still consider myself patriotic.
“Legion – Biff is objectively right on this. We could have developed any of those things for a fraction of the cost without going into space.”
lechacal, EXACTLY. Some wonderful and practical advances have been made by the military as well. Should that justify all military spending? Does that make it right to spend $500 on a hammer, invade Iraq at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars and countless innocent lives, etc.?
Ok, back to frivolity and corny one-liners. The Death Star is stressing me out enough!
I’m not against the space program, I just pointed out that Biff is right that those things could have been developed at less cost without the program. I just want to make sure the debate is an honest one. We didn’t go to the moon for the advancement of science, we went to the moon because we wanted to get there before the Soviets. When we succeeded we all got a big national stiffie out of it and our there were probably all kinds of intangible benefits that came out of it.
We are of course just talking about manned space exploration here – ie throwing tons of metal and people into orbit or beyond just to be there. Obviously there is a lot of metal in space doing useful things like processing phone calls and credit card payments and such.
This guy likes to jump into outhouse waste. Seriously.
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I might be the only person in America who also cringes with embarrassment when they do a fly over (or whatever it’s called) with fighter jets at sports events. And yes, I still consider myself patriotic.
“Legion – Biff is objectively right on this. We could have developed any of those things for a fraction of the cost without going into space.”
lechacal, EXACTLY. Some wonderful and practical advances have been made by the military as well. Should that justify all military spending? Does that make it right to spend $500 on a hammer, invade Iraq at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars and countless innocent lives, etc.?
Ok, back to frivolity and corny one-liners. The Death Star is stressing me out enough!
“geebs lechecal. if i didn’t know you were a lawyer it definitely would’ve been my first guess. you must be very good at it!”
Golly, thanks – but I’m very curious as to what I said today that came across as lawyerly.
Congrats, Gem!
My assocication to ‘dancing w/ a cane’ is Fred Astaire.
I’m not against the space program, I just pointed out that Biff is right that those things could have been developed at less cost without the program. I just want to make sure the debate is an honest one. We didn’t go to the moon for the advancement of science, we went to the moon because we wanted to get there before the Soviets. When we succeeded we all got a big national stiffie out of it and our there were probably all kinds of intangible benefits that came out of it.
We are of course just talking about manned space exploration here – ie throwing tons of metal and people into orbit or beyond just to be there. Obviously there is a lot of metal in space doing useful things like processing phone calls and credit card payments and such.
great, now I’m sounding like DIBS. lol
congratulations! it’s nice to hear of a painless closing for a change 🙂
lechacal,
careful, Mr. B is watching, besides, there’s always time to troll the porn sites outside of political discussions.
As I posted above, there are many innovations in medicine that have helped all mankind, that have grown out of the space program.
For now, the only rocket I’m referring to is the one in space, not the one in my pants.
“IBTC”
HA! I always loved that one. Not that there’s anything wrong with IBTs.