NASA announces discovery of sand on Mars....

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Whether certain word usages are offensive can be subjective. Unless there is a clear pattern of obvious usage designed to offend, we tend to be forgiving and overlook it.

My mistake. Oddly enough... I thought that swearing being unacceptable meant that it was unacceptable.

This thread is a joke, right? Poe's Law...

The Curiosity Rover did its first soil sample and NASA just released the results. NASA is looking for organic compounds within the sand that may holds clues on whether or not if there is life on Mars or if there was life in the past. When I say life on Mars, I'm talking about tiny microbes. We know there is no sentient life on Mars, but there's still a chance for microscopic life. If there is microscopic life on the "Dead Planet", there is most definitely life elsewhere in our universe, if not on another planet/moon in our solar system. The sand also holds other clues such the geological history of the area. This sort of information is important if we want to start colonizing Mars in the future.

Also before you start knocking at NASA, please realize how much they contribute to our society with their advances in technology by inventing materials and devices that we use everyday. NASA's work has saved lives.

Here's the results in graph form
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Classic science as run by government. they gave themselves a monopoly, then billed the people. For forty years they kept America out of space, and filled near space with so much junk, it may never be usable.

For what that cost, funding wasted, and what good minds they hired could have been doing, cost the economy as much as the current national debt.

According to 2001, PanAm would be making Moon runs. The Moon and Mars were known to be dead rocks just from the gasses or lack of, about fifty years ago.

It was a Russian/American dildo shooting contest, where both sides found they could loot the civilian economy, by claiming a gap, long after enough bombs existed to kill the whole world ten times over, if just exploded in place.

We used to talk of Russians being poor, depressed, stopped and searched, arrested without cause, houses searched, phones if they could get one tapped, and and now we are the same.

It is the way governments take power away from the people, and concentrate it in the hands of the KGB, or Homeland Security, or the Gestapo. Prison without trial, torture, endless detention, used to be considered bad things.

It comes when something else is put before the people, The Motherland, The Fatherland, for which the people should be proud to die. Or starve, be poor, for the greater good of all.

I have some news, The People Are All!

The President today proposed cutting Social Security, to continue funding defense contractors, to make more Martian Probes. Grannys $17 dollar a month raise is Un American, and she must be sacraficed for the good of General Dynamics, NASA, and The American Way!

He will never run for office again, but he just killed his Party. The Republicans will join them. Government is the enemy.

Social Security is no more and entitlement than Government Bonds, it was bought and paid for, and cutting Bond Interest after the sale would have the same response.

There is sand in the gears of government, time to stop the machine and give it a good total cleaning, it is The People's Machine.

Who are you knocking? The scientists and engineers who make NASA great or the corrupt, anti-intellectual politicians who control their budget? I'm assuming the former, because NASA is anything but bloated. It's 0.48% of the federal budget. It's seriously underfunded and continuously faces budget cuts, just like every government funded research organization outside military control. Now, with such a limited budget, how do you expect them to afford a new space shuttle? Not only that, how do you expect them to pay the salary for "the brightest and best"? By the way, they didn't flee. They either retired or were cut due to budget cuts. You can now find them teaching at community colleges, like the one I attended.

EDIT: Poe's Law....? Seriously. Some of the posters in this thread cannot be THAT anti-intellectual. NASA builds the economy by giving us new technology that can be capitalized. For example, LED's.