Imagine if all the money spent on sending handfuls of people into space was spent on health care education here on Earth?
Seems to me that spending money on something that will eventually contribute to the over-population of the planet while NOT spending money on ways to get off this rock, would be the definition of counter-productive.
My wife's phone was stolen from her hospital room while she was down the hall getting an MRI. We suspected the hospital staff but of course there was no way to prove it. Later that day I logged onto the Find my iPhone website and saw that it was in a neighborhood about 20 miles away. I drove to the edge of the subdivision where it was pointing me to and I called the police to let them know that I had tracked down a stolen iPhone and that I needed their help getting it back. They sent out an officer who took a look at the map on my computer screen and then drove over to where it said to go (I had to stay put). About 20 minutes later he came back empty-handed and said "I looked around but I didn't see the phone. I talked with a few people but no one else has seen it either. Sorry, buddy". He then instructed me NOT to go looking for it myself, but looking at the dot on the screen KNOWING that it's in some house less than a mile away, I just couldn't sit idle. I drove to the house where the blue dot was and knocked on the door but there was no answer. Next door there was a woman and her children sitting on the porch so I walked over and explained the situation. She immediately let me know that the woman in that house has two jobs - one of them as a cleaning lady at the hospital my wife was admitted into. The other job was a similar position at a nearby hospital, where she was working at that moment. I called the officer back and explained to him what I found out and he went to the hospital, rounded up the woman and brought her back to her house. A few minutes later she and the officer walked out with my wife's phone in hand. He gave it back to me and gave me some information to follow up on if we decided to press charges, which we did. As far as I know that woman lost both of her jobs and is currently waiting on a court date for sentencing. Since it was over a certain dollar amount ($300 maybe?) it was considered a felony and she could serve a couple years in jail.
Moral of the story? If you steal someone's phone, turn it off so they can't track it.
I'm not normally the type to point out grammatical mistakes made my posters, but I feel like the articles should be a tad more scrutinized before published.
FTFA: "Keep in mind that Burning Man looks a lot different from space then it does up close. "
I mean, come on guys...that's 3rd grade stuff there.
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