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News Briefs 01-09-2011

Spring has sprung on the lower side of our planet! Let’s boogie

Quote of the Day:

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Gandhi

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  1. All that can be invented, has been invented!
    Re: Is human spaceflight worth it?

    As a species, we have this tendency to paint ourselves into corners all the time. The combination of complacent arrogance and misplaced values constantly leads to us believe we know as much as we need to know and that knowing any more is simply a waste of time and money.

    Who in the heck was that fruitcake who bolted a steam engine onto a ship, anyway? That was a fool idea…. building fires on wooden ships when there was plenty of wind to push us along. And lord only knows that those noisy velocipedes won’t ever do more than scare horses into a panic and lead to some terrible mishaps.

    We really don’t have time or the money for this man-in-space nonsense, either. The speed of light will never be achieved, much less broken… much less broken by a man made machine carrying human beings within. We’ve been to the moon and all we got was a pile of rocks for our trouble.

    *sigh*

    I wonder… a century from now, what will the next gaggle of dust muffins have to say about the future from their vantage point?

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