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[Jasper]

I'm not NASA's friend unless they have a moon colony.  In my opinion, they've rested on their laurels since the original big push, and haven't done anything seriously exciting for a while.

Aside from the occasional space probe.  But, you know, that sort of thing should be routine by now.

[Captain Utopia]

Is there any time since 1969, when NASA haven't been underfunded?  Pretty much the biggest complaints I've heard about NASA are the way they buckle to congress in order to ensure they don't experience more cuts, but presumably, if the uncertainty of funding wasn't a constant carrot/stick.. then they could spend more time working on science and less time worrying about appearances and politics.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

I wonder if it would be legal for them to seek donations from Bigelow Aerospace &c... (Bigelow Aerospace is a private company that is best known for building inflatable satellites, producing an economy version of the Ares V, and having all the Air Force's ufo sighting reports outsourced to them).

[Iason Ouabache]

I'm not NASA's friend unless they have a moon colony.  In my opinion, they've rested on their laurels since the original big push, and haven't done anything seriously exciting for a while.

Aside from the occasional space probe.  But, you know, that sort of thing should be routine by now.

Whoa whoa whoa!  Hubble isn't seriously exciting???

[Jasper]

I'm not NASA's friend unless they have a moon colony.  In my opinion, they've rested on their laurels since the original big push, and haven't done anything seriously exciting for a while.

Aside from the occasional space probe.  But, you know, that sort of thing should be routine by now.

Whoa whoa whoa!  Hubble isn't seriously exciting???

Don't get me wrong, anything that leaves the planet is pretty cool, but what excites me about space is actually going there.  I want to experience microgravity, I want to stare into space without an atmosphere in the way.  I want to play basketball on the moon.

Anything less is, for me, a disappointment.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I kind of want people to have places to live, access to medical care, and enough to eat.

[Jasper]

So, we shouldn't go into space until we've ended the plight of our not-flying-into-space people?

I mean, in a perfect world all that war money we've spent probably could have ended world hunger, but whatev.  Let's criticize NASA instead.

Seems wrong to go after space funding when so much money is wasted on killing people.

[Reginald Ret]

I kind of want people to have places to live, access to medical care, and enough to eat.

unobtainable goal.
give people that and they make more people.
more people means the goal becomes unobtainable.


i applaud your ethics but not your logic.

[Cain]

I kind of want people to have places to live, access to medical care, and enough to eat.

unobtainable goal.
give people that and they make more people.
more people means the goal becomes unobtainable.


i applaud your ethics but not your logic.

Actually population growth levels off after a certain point is reached.

www.un.org/esa/population/publications/sixbillion/sixbilpart1.pdf

[Bruno]

I kind of want people to have places to live, access to medical care, and enough to eat.

unobtainable goal.
give people that and they make more people.
more people means the goal becomes unobtainable.


i applaud your ethics but not your logic.

Actually population growth levels off after a certain point is reached.

www.un.org/esa/population/publications/sixbillion/sixbilpart1.pdf

...and our economy is dependent on continued exponential growth.


That'll end well.

[Jasper]

No!  We could, ah, CHANGE IT!

YES!  We could change the fundamentals of our economy.  Which are strong as it is.  Yes.

[Bruno]

No!  We could, ah, CHANGE IT!

YES!  We could change the fundamentals of our economy.  Which are strong as it is.  Yes.

NOOOOOOOO!!!!1

WE NEEDS MOAR PLANETZZZZ!!!!!!ⁿ√·∙·∙°≈÷⌡⌠≤≥±≡

Actually, I've thought about this, and the obvious best solution is genetic. I won't go into details here, but it involves lots of sex with pygmies.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Mass starvation is a good mechanism for leveling off population growth.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I kind of want people to have places to live, access to medical care, and enough to eat.

unobtainable goal.
give people that and they make more people.
more people means the goal becomes unobtainable.


i applaud your ethics but not your logic.

A. I didn't present any logic whatsoever in my post, so there isn't any to applaud or not applaud in the first place.
B. The highest population growth occurs in the poorest and least-educated countries.
C. What Cain said.
D. It's true, solving the obstacle of having a growth-based economy is beyond me.