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Comment Re:TURNS 25!?!?! (Score 2) 45

Hubble is a prime example of why we space nutters want to get people out there. When we sent Hubble up into its 375-mile orbit, it was nothing but a paperweight until we were able to send a crew up there to fix it.

Not to mention that it was carried into orbit using Space Shuttle as its "first stage."

Comment Re:solved problem (Score 1) 49

Wrong, and not just because you would appreciate some warning if lightning were to strike your bridge.

There are some strange things going on in thunderstorms (sprites, gamma rays, etc.) that point to the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions. We really need to know more about internal structure and process in thunderstorms.

Comment Re:Cautionary Tale? (Score 1) 182

I'm referring to the automatic assumption anti-science people make that any pro-science position is a shill for "big $INDUSTRY." Any use of GMO is automatically a plot by Monsanto, even open-source charity projects like golden rice.

Now that the anti-science movement is pressing on to oppose science itself rather than just its applications, the argument is getting even sillier. We're being asked to believe, for the most recent example, that "Big Astronomy" is strip-mining Hawaii. I suppose that explains why astronomers dominate Wall Street.

Comment Re:We design our hardware, why not wetware? (Score 1) 182

If we gain control of human evolution, getting off this rock will be greatly facilitated by being able to create human "forks" adapted to conditions on some of the othe rocks in our vicinity. Instead of having to terraform them to our current liking, we can do "terraforming lite," in places that we meet halfway with versions of humanity adapted for thinner air, lower gravity, or perchlorates in your cricket flour.

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