Talk of Curiosity fuels my anger…

[rob]

I might offend some people with this one, but fuck it. I’m pissed.

So, I’m talking with April about the Curiosity rover, how it landed, how cool it was when I watched it land live last night, how all of the NASA guys were jumping up and down and stuff. I said that it actually depressed me a little bit because I’ll never do anything that worthy and cool. April asked if I’d ever wanted to be an astronaut, and I said yes. Then we talked about how much it cost – 2.5 billion, broken down that’s if every man, woman and child in America paid $7.00. Then she said something…

“That’s 2 and a half billion that could have been spent on something else.”

What. The. Fuck.

Fucking fuck fuck. My beautiful wife, who I love very much, said something so ridiculous that I wanted to slap her.

I said, “Well, let’s take a look at the defense budget and then we’ll talk. We could take 2 and a half billion dollars out of the defense budget and split it among all the teachers in America, but oh, wait, let’s not do that, there’s no profit in that.” Then she went to bed.

I absolutely hate that people (like my wife) are so short sighted. It makes sense though – Republicans are typically Christians, and most Christians believe in God because then can’t see beyond their own lifespans. They can’t see that there are things greater than themselves, that furthering our own knowledge about the universe and our place in it should be paramount to oh, just about anything on this planet. It’s more important than profit margins, it’s more important than any promotion you might get. If there’s anything more noble than sacrificing your life for the future knowledge of hmmm, the fucking PLANET, then I don’t know what is. It’s why politics doesn’t interest me. The players in the game are typically morons. You don’t have to pass an IQ test to get into Congress. And don’t think I’m a Democrat – all of them are morons, too. Religion is the same way. The fact that there are questions that can’t be answered or GASP! shouldn’t be asked in the first place is reason enough for me to give ’em the finger and tell them to fuck off. Science is the only area that I feel like I’m welcome.

$7 for each person. That’s a fucking bargain. I’ve thought about this shit for a long time, and it’s why I ALWAYS say that education in this country should be more important. If teachers were paid more, we could attract smarter people to the job, then children would eventually get smarter, and as adults they might actually have something worthy to say. Technology seems to have done more to irritate me than anything. The Internet has given every moron with a keyboard a voice. Reading the “top tweets” makes me want to kill myself. We’re being infected by the mediocre time and time again.

I don’t know how to stop. I’m fucking fired up. It’s the reason that sometimes I wish for some sort of brain injury or illness so that I don’t have to stop thinking about this shit all the time. Or maybe I just need a job, so then I can fill my overactive brain with things like profit margins and sales figures.

Send me to Mars, motherfuckers.

[Bucho]

I think the return in technology from NASA is about $7 for every $1 invested too. Economically it works out pretty good if you look at it that way. I’m not basing that on any source I can remember enough to quote though, just something I heard a few days ago.

You don’t need all that expsenive training though, just convince the government that an asteroid is heading for Earth and you have the set of skills best suited to taking care of it and they’ll send you up with only a quick and cheap crash course. I saw that in a documentary once so this time I can quote the source.

- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.

[Jor-El]

Fiona and I watched it live also. It’s quite remarkable that everything worked perfectly to plan.

Speaking of Mars and your longing to do something…(Total Recall)
Quade: Don’t you understand? I feel like I was made for something more than this. I want to do something with my life, to be somebody.

Wife: You are somebody. You’re the man I love.

So there you go. You’re the man we love.

What if that was every person’s greatest accomplishment? We wouldn’t get anything done. We’d all just be sitting around hugging each other.

What the heck am I talking about?

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[Version3]

I missed the whole landing, when I told Jessica about this, she sided on cool and useful research, and I watched Total Recall and literally opened this thread during the end credits. It’s like I’m backwardly connected to the universe.

[Jor-El]

I watched TR up to the chase scene on Mars with Vinny the cab driver. Then the computer froze up again.

Good thing is I have pretty much narrowed the problem down. Finder will lock up for either (20 seconds) or (several minutes). I noticed it most when looking through my Western Digital USB 500GB drives. Unplugged them and it still happens in Finder with the iMac internal HD but not as often. With applications it will usually happen in iTunes, iPhoto or when trying to play a movie over 2GB in file size.

But this thread is about cool Mars landing.

I like titties.

[rob]

Well, actually, the original version of the thread was to bitch about short-sighted people 1st, then Curiosity is cool 2nd, but I’m splitting hairs.

Last night, actually, out of the blue April said, “You know, you’re welcome to come with me to church anytime.”

I said, “And you’re welcome to watch Harry Potter with me anytime.”

Needless to say, that didn’t go over well. Got a “go to hell” look, almost literally.

It’s also funny, because this thread makes it look like April and I have this tumultuous relationship, and that’s just not true. We just typically don’t try to discuss politics or religion anymore.

[Bucho]

Ironically it’s tech from the space program which lead to modern treatments for short-sightedness.

- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.

[ori-STUDFARM]

We gotta get out into the solar system for the sake of humanity. There’s only so much the human race can expand…and it has probably already exceeded it’s quota for this ole planet. This is the first steps to colonising other planets and saving the human race. That, especially compared to the military budget, is money well spent IMO

BIG JOBBIES

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