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Sgt. McKill posted:I got this e-mail from my dad the other day, I think it's a popular one. So easily debunked too, I just reply with this: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motivation.html
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Because if socialists/communists are going to make a base out of anywhere in america it would be the Rockefeller Center, a real symbol of the common man.
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Its funny how none of these emails go after Obama for using coke in his early years, which to me is an obvious cheap shot that has truth behind it. I wonder why??!
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Goatman Sacks posted:I find that most engineer-autistic types slobber over space exploration more than most. I'm not saying just give money and say "make something!", I'm saying provide goals that are more useful at the present. Like, I don't know, finding a way to make mosquitoes incapable of carrying malaria, for example. Optimal allocation tends to be about finding the lowest hanging fruits with the most dynamic results rather than saying "hey, let's throw every dollar into X until we succeed because we deem it the most important!". Marginal utility of spending lends itself to the world we see today and have seen for a long time.
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Goatman Sacks posted:I'm just not seeing why something as utterly useless as a buggy on another planet is the only possible "lofty goal" that leads to tangential discoveries. That's why we spend .000000001% of world GDP on that, do that 10 000 times, and hope some of them come through with breakthroughs. I don't know, I think exploring the closest and most earth-like planet in our galaxy has some potential for discovery of something yet unknown to us, but maybe I'm crazy.
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