Priorities

[den]

There are probes orbiting Mars, landing on Mars, and driving around on Mars.

The news if full of Kylie Minogue turning 40.

Comments

[steve3.livejournal.com]

Well you have to get your priorities right

[psaakyrn.livejournal.com]

Though granted she'll turn 40 only once, while people will still keep sending junk to interplanetary masses..

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

I swear. I just don't get it.

Y'know, I liked Kylie as the green faery in Moulin Rouge and she was kinda cute in Doctor Who, but to have her 40th bday be that big a deal?

Dude, Andy Warhol got it wrong....15 minutes is too much. (guess where that came from? =) )

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Are you a victim of TISM?

[kuangning]

Please tell me that's sarcasm dripping all over the floor from this response. :P

[psaakyrn.livejournal.com]

Just noting that it's really a matter of opinion. :p Though you'd think that by now we'd be tossing biological junk as opposed to mechanical ones...

[kuangning]

Enh. There are really sound reasons for not sending a manned flight to Mars just yet, not least of which is the fact that one more failure with a manned flight would set NASA back another 5-10 years or more. They're in real need of a better budget, and the only way they're going to get it (besides a change of government administration going in their favour) is with a few very public perceived victories to build support. You do that by sending robots that take pretty pictures to pique the curiosity and pride of John and Jane Q Public back at home.

[psaakyrn.livejournal.com]

My point is that NASA should've been getting better budgets to start off with, instead of having money being funneled into all sorts of other stuff. Aka the whole change of government policies and whatnot. At the current rate, NASA is just an afterthought "just to please the hippies".

[kuangning]

Amen. But they've actually had their budget slashed instead, and they're fighting the surprisingly prevalent opinion that they get a huge chunk of our budget (ie, between 10% and 50%, which is utter bollocks) and the less-prevalent-but-just-as-vocal argument that any money spent on them is money wasted.

Every time they send a mission anywhere, we get a backlash of why are we spending money on space when there are still problems here on Earth? As if NASA's budget would be all it took to fix those, or as if we can't walk and chew bubble gum at the same time.

Oddly enough, the same people who cry this seem to have no problem with the amount of money we pour into killing each other on a daily basis. Go figure.

< /rant>. Really. ;)

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Of course, we could always put Kylie on the moon....but it would ruin that too 8/.............

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

try wrapping your head around this one.
For the amount spent on the Iraq war, we could have had a 500 astronaut colony on Mars, as well as a fully operational lunar city.

By some estimates, we might even have had enough to do the research for a faster-than-light drive of some kind.

Instead, we got what exactly?

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Yep. We're at war. Oil prices are skyrocketing. Unemployment is growing at an alarming rate. Housing is collapsing. People who used to be able to feed themselves are starving. Soooo... the news shows us pictures of kittens and the latest celebrity mismatch.

-=TK

[grinning-fox.livejournal.com]

Who? (Sorry, was busy reading about Mars things...)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Australian singer and ex-soap star popular in Australia, New Zealand, UK and Europe.

[amazingadrian.livejournal.com]

So Australia loves its international figures.

It doesn't get very many I take it?

I am familiar with Air Supply, Men At Work, and Savage Garden (two of which are defunct bands!). I've heard of Kylie, but she's just kind of 'meh' to me. You guys need to put out better music again!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

You may have heard of AC/DC, Midnight Oil, and Little River Band.

[sleepyjohn00.livejournal.com]

So Australia loves its international figures.

It doesn't get very many I take it?

How about Den Whitton, internationally renowned critter-rescuer and hero to puggles everywhere?

[amazingadrian.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! Those too. ;)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

oh shush. 8)