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Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming
08/11/11, 14:47
You are denying that was something other than a blatant attempt whip up some populist rage against the pure and true mission of NASA by bringing up the "bank bailout" and TARP?
Niel was not trying to get the listener to say 'Hai we can afford subsidize those wall st. fatcats for monacle polish but not afford to put a man on mars??!??' |
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Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming
08/11/11, 14:31
Was the before or after the misleading comparison to TARP? |
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Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming
08/11/11, 14:22
'collapse' really? |
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Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming
08/11/11, 14:16
"Great technological challenges, like space travel and research, have always spurred the greatest technological advancements in our society."
Really? All of them?
Was the oil industry a result of space travel? How about public sanitation or antibiotics? I am not aware of much direct impact on agriculture from space research, but maybe I am wrong.
Yes I know, if you pay a bunch of smart people to discover something...chances are they will discover something. I happen to like a lot of things that people at NASA discover.
But is it fair to scream "SPACE IS REALLY IMPORTANT !!! TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE MOOOOON!" when budgets are threatened?
It is also misleading to suggest that a lot of our "space research" isn't simple defense posturing. People like Neil want a bunch of kids to grow up and become critical thinkers, but blindly pushing the space program (without examining its official purpose) like he does here isn't honest. |
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Neil deGrasse Tyson - We Stopped Dreaming
08/11/11, 13:50
I like Neil, but as a scientist and a skeptic, I don't think it's fair makes some deliberately wrong comparisons and glosses over some obvious problems with spending money on space research.
"Bank bailout" vs. NASA budget? Completely different allocations of money, it makes no sense to compare them. The bank portion of TARP was paid back on the order of months after it was loaned, and the fed has made a profit on its warrant portfolio. This is something very different than long term (5y-20y) horizons in investing in basic research where it is difficult to attribute any sort of return at all.
I'm inspired by all the wonderful things NASA has done in space, but it takes a fair bit of money to do that and the return on that capital isn't obvious. Does the general population appreciate most of the discoveries being made by hubble? Does knowing about exo planets make us more productive? Do we really need to setup another lysozyme crystallization experiments on the space shuttle? How does an engineer or scientist feel when he compares her salary to a 3rd year analyst at a Wall St. firm?
I am curious and want to know all about how the universe came about and how we got here, but it is a fair question to ask: is it really worth it?
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Final Combat's Meet the Firebat
08/08/11, 19:54
Very Dayvan Cowboy...I liked it too. |
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Final Combat's Meet the Firebat
08/08/11, 10:32
Maybe the Fatman was actually his boss?
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The Ballad of Mike Haggar
08/05/11, 18:25
From three heros you must now pick.
The red ninja with a backfist as quick?
The street fighter, that can punch through a wall of brick?
No.
The joystick will move twice to the right and you will fight.
Raining suplexes and piledrivers in a mustachioed barrage.
You will pick Mike.
Haggar.
Oh my car. |
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Jon Stewart on the Ground Zero Cross Lawsuit
08/05/11, 17:07
Agreed, probably a more tactful way to speak officially (although they have to decide how true they want to stay to their message and price in the mud that will be slung back to them no matter how they say it).
But as far as I can tell, they didn't mock the tragedy. Where do you see that in the video? |
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The Ballad of Mike Haggar
08/05/11, 16:25
Just brilliant. |
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Jon Stewart on the Ground Zero Cross Lawsuit
08/05/11, 15:26
Easiest to just search on comedy central...
As far as I can tell, what the atheist group is asking for is pretty fair:
The organization, American Atheists, filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to have the cross removed, or at least be accompanied by symbols of value to other faith communities and non-religious groups.
It's kinda hard not to look like dicks when you someone wants to make you look like one... |
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RAWESOME RAID by FDA Aug. 3, 2011
08/05/11, 01:05
By 'significant' I mean 'observable'. |
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RAWESOME RAID by FDA Aug. 3, 2011
08/05/11, 00:53
Raw milk does not contain a significant amount of lactase.
Vitamin loss is a bit of a canard. You do lose a lot of the vitamin C, but milk is not a primary source of vitamin C in human diets. You lose a little B12 and B1, A and D stick around. |
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Obsessives: Pizza
08/04/11, 00:50
This was actually really good!
The crust was nice and bready, very different from what I've had in recent history.
Definitely some of the best pizza I've had in a while. One pie is $20, which I split, but you really need two for a full meal.
Was certainly worth the visit, and a nice space. |
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Dude, you just got owned by Matt Damon
08/03/11, 20:41
Even Anderson Cooper is getting in on the Damon lovefest.
Reason TV are a bunch of douchebags...but critically evaluate some of Matt's statements. Why would teachers do jobs with "shitty salaries"?
Don't presume any of my motives here, but first let's take a look at the average GPA which colleges most teachers graduate from (and the administrators of the public system). Compare that to, say, medical doctors or Wall St. professionals. |
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Obsessives: Pizza
08/02/11, 22:43
Make that tomorrow.
They are open Wed -> Sat. |
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Obsessives: Pizza
08/02/11, 22:38
Wow, I just found that this is in SF. where I am visiting right now.
I'm going there tonight.
I'll report back with my findings. |
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Black Man Experiences Racism in Houston Community
08/02/11, 15:42
Just odd they they gave referred to his occupation so opaquely.
I'm all for rap battles. |
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Obsessives: Pizza
08/02/11, 14:22
Well the best pizza I ever had was the deep dish at Regents Pizza in La Jolla. I had never tried deep dish before, but once I had it at Regents I knew I would never taste a better pie.
Everyone I took there came to the same conclusion. It was owned by a European couple (I couldn't tell where they were from...it didn't seem like Italy), but they eventually got bought out by some corporation that kept the name, but did things like put the employees in uniforms.
The magic was gone, this world has not seen a greater pizza tragedy. |
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Obsessives: Pizza
08/02/11, 14:06
meant for baleen's post obviously |
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