Flashback to July 4th, 2005, When NASA under President Bush blew a hole in a comet for science.
Link Here**Tue 05 Jul 05**
OLYMPICS AND COMET SMASHING
Sorry, but I'm feeling depressed - well, sad, at least. The whole of Britain (even if there is debate about the details of how to fix it) is focussed on the issue of children dying unnecessarily in Africa. Where is our Prime Minister ? In Singapore? Why ? Oh, to "go all out". What is this this thing that's worth going all out for ? Ah .. London getting the Olympic Games. And this is vital, is it ? Vital to whom ?? We all want the Olympic Games to continue, of course. But why are some so desperate to have it in England ? Why not let, say, Russia have it, if it would help their economy. The only motivations I can see for all this "effort" are rooted in selfishness.
Other news? Scientists jumping up and down because their probe hit the comet. Yes, technologically it was a clever thing to pull off. So was the Hiroshima bomb. So was smashing Iraq to a pulp. I hate to see see good technology going into implementing bad decisions. Everybody knows that my background is almost entirely science, even more than music. This is a day when I feel ashamed of science.
Now I quote from a friend who knows more about Astronomy than I do ....
Nobody has mentioned a real danger: cheap publicity of
astronomy and space missions ! Cheap cheap cheap !!!
When we make HSTs, i know why, i know its great, i know
its advanced and i know what we gain...But here ??
What is there here ?
If you read the scientific justification of the project you
will see that its just bla bla bla..water...very general,
nothing specific, nothing strong, nothing original... So what
then did these 330 milion dollars buy? ONLY an impact !
With 330 million they could build excellent instruments,
adaptive optics, the best IR high resolution spectrographs etc...
they could give PhD grants, feed and educate poor nations,
funded students, Universities...
...so much could have been done.
Yes, folks - that little smash-up cost .... 330 Million dollars. I notice there is now a little back-tracking going on in the description of what happened .... they are now saying the comet "ran into" the copper projectile ! I had to laugh ... and according to the news tonight this will "tell scientists how the Solar System was formed". Really ? Nobody has detailed how this will be achieved from analysis of the explosion. The funniest thing of all is that two days prior to the impact the comet spontaneously emitted a plume very much like the one the damned projectile produced. To quote a recent Bob De Niro film .... Analyse THAT !!! Sorry, folks .... this is a cheap publicity stunt. Sorry, an expensive, irresponsible publicity stunt. In my opinion, that is. Shame on you, guys.
bri
Lets fast forward to today...
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And.. There you have it -
Bush blows a hole in a comet - ZOMG!!!!
Obama blows a hole in the moon - -nil-
Great musician, ridiculously talented guitarist. Raving Moonbat.
