Interesting, I've ruminated on the likelihood that collective suicide would solve all human miseries: No more human hunger, no more human wars, no more human sadness...but the other animals would still experience the same, in day-to-day life. On a brighter note, there is the possibility of a catastrophic event occuring that only humans would have a chance of stopping or remediating, e.g. an impending asteroid impact. Perhaps our real utility to the animals of Earth would be the role of ultimate protector; that makes me, and my perception of my species feel a little more meaningful. That also feels ironic (and if I couched it as political satire, it would be).
i.e., we should build a shitty wall, and hope no mongowians show up.
This will be a trillion dollars spent down here, on Earth. Of all of the gazillions of space images I have seen, I've never seen bags with $ signs floating around. With luck and perseverance, that will change someday ; )
With this piece of law, you have to do it immediately (48 hours) and publish whatever the offended party send you to publish.
What if the offended party sends you something to publish which offends yet another party?
Resort to castor oil.
Are you NUTS? A full 3D course work for biology, MATH (did i say MATH, not LOUD ENOUGH!), geology, etc. would be awesome! You're quite the curmudgeon, and, I suppose, unaware that for some people, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Back in school I took a geology sequence, and one of the aids we used were these stereoscopic maps. 'Course you had to lay the maps flat, position a viewer over the top,& for some of the students it wouldn't work - but when it finally popped it could be quite useful, if one were viewing unvisited terrain. Also, just made the course more interesting, and full-bodied.
When it comes to money spent, NASA is still the Red Headed Step Child. But from my backyard view of the Multi-verse, humanity currently comprehends 3 curious methods to climb out of our gravity well. Rockets, Elevator, and Anti-Gravity. One works,(but NASA Administrators act like Edith Bunker and won't use Burt Rutan's solution set). The Elevator is still being developed, and looks to be serviceable, eventually, given humanities comprehension of applied Newtonian Mechanics. Anti-Gravity is still the High School Prom Royalty that can not see me for dirt. The first two are mechanically problematic; but the third one, oh the third one, is the one I still have thoughts for.
Don't forget mass-drivers/electromagnetic launchers. I am not a physicist, but it seems to me that EM launchers (of some sort) should be an area of more than passing interest, for both ground- and space-based launches. Oh yeah,$$...Forgot about that.
Your sig is eerily prophetic, relative to this story. Maybe substitute out "Net" with "Government lists"? (BTW, my version is "Once it's in the Google aether, it never goes away").
Were there fewer fools, knaves would starve. - Anonymous
