Yeah, that worked out really poorly for them.

Same. Kinda ruined my opinion of him. :/

Ohhhhh you're mixing up "not sending humans into orbit to chill out" with "not doing useful space research"

Seriously, humans cost *so* much to get up there. It cost us over $150 billion (inflation-adjusted) to go to the moon. The ISS has (coincidentally) also cost about $150 billion so far.

Opportunity and Spirit cost us less than a billion. Sending Cassini to orbit Saturn was about $3 billion.

Do you think the ISS has provided 50x the value of Cassini? As much value as we could have gotten from 300 rovers?

The left is cutting NASA's budgets?
http://www.space.com/22023-nas...

This just in, taxes are violent, therefore we should have a government that runs entirely on charitable donations. Therefore, it's hypocritical for any tax-funded government to worry about murdering.

Sorry about your misanthropy; but I'm actually worried about *actual* violence perpetuated by our government. You know, like slaughtering civilians in those silly sand countries.

News flash: 500,000 years ago was 500,000 years ago. Things change.

Anti-vaxxers on slashdot? Don't they revoke your geek card for that?

You're purposefully conflating the "assertive/proactive" and "violent" meanings of the word.

how insidious!

Ah yes, how could I forget the episode where Jerry Springer proved that feminist forbade male birth control?

"Breakthrough in face recognition software"
"The idea is to train a many-layered neural network using a vast database of annotated examples"

How novel.

Prosecutions, not convictions.

[citation needed]

Oh my god, no, keep your gross ass out of the LGBT community.

Which is obviously not how we measure effectiveness. There's a 2% chance *per year* that a couple that use condoms as their only birth control method will get pregnant and say they didn't mess it up. ("No, I swear, we put the condom on and pinched the air out of it but it didn't work.")