ironlordthemad said:
And now in my eyes Bob is a bigger, more selfish ass than before.
Seriously?
Your pissed that they are cutting the funding for a Space Program that has been in decline for a while now and has directly cost the lives of several of of your fellow human beings, so they can use the money where it will be needed in the future.
I wonder if you will have the same viewpoint if the economy of the US goes right in the shitter, causing various companies, say for example The Escapist, to fire their employees and then suddenly your out of a job because Obama put more money into sending someone into space than into fixing the economy. I doubt it.
Keeping a failing space program running is not the responsible thing to do in a global recession.
The most annoying thing about this is that your being stupidly short sighted. Your a child in his high chair looking at the candy and saying "I WANT IT NOW!" when your parents are struggling to put the potatoes on the table to keep you healthy because they can't afford it. They didn't say, "No thats it forever, no more space travel."
They simply said "We don't want to burn the cash right now, others can pick it up later if the time is right."
Getting through the boring potatoes will make the sweet candy all the tastier and it's why grown ups order the main course of the meal first. Hopefully some day you'll be able to sit at the grown up table, but with each hate speech you post I realise we wil be waiting a while longer for you to pull up a chair, which is a shame, because when you open your mind to a serious discussion, your a great champion of logic and reason.
So how about growing up Bob?
Grow up and get over your childhood, like other healthy adults, no one has a perfect childhood but we get over it as we grow up, its part of being an adult. Granted, some have have more to get over than others, but the ones that do get over it have a better life because of it.
Grow up and get over your idea of walking on Mars because you saw it in a movie as a kid and it was your only escape from your childhood.
Even if your going to claim that your childhood was darker and more traumatic than anyone can possibly imagine, do you really think you should be in the public eye giving out your opinion which has obviously been warped by your childhood?
Your fellow humans are dying of disease and famine all across the planet you share with them. Surely a narcissist like you would want to be the better man, rise above those that made your childhood your personal hell and make the planet a better place. But no, you just have your selfish dream and you are less of a person because of it. And you think you can just blow it off because people were a dick to you as a kid and now you think its your turn to get even?
Part of me hopes this video is a joke.
oh for fuck sake the "we are not ready yet guy". news flash!
HUMANS WILL NEVER BE READY NOR PERFECT. PEOPLE WILL KILL PEOPLE AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO GIGANTIC ASSES LONG AFTER "UTOPIA" HAS ARRIVED. space is the
FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE WITH UNTOLD POTENTIAL. hell on our moon there is
A CHEMICAL THAT PROMISES UNTOLD ELECTRICAL ENERGY THAT CAN SUPPLY US INDEFINITELY (helium-3 not to mention gases that will be used after helium 3 is obsolete). yet
YOU want tell the people who want space travel to be possible to "grow up"? the potential of space can fix all of our problems. we have reached the point of no return and staying on earth is
A DEATH SENTENCE TO THE ENTIRE RACE. sure people die here and there but
PEOPLE DIE ALL THE TIME AND WILL CONTINUE TO DIE NO MATTER WHAT COURSE OF ACTION YOU TAKE. how the
FUCK is unlimited energy selfish? how is knowledge gained about our stance on the universe selfish? how the HELL is discovering new minerals that can help us selfish? space benefits the whole human race and its the "we are not ready crowd" that holds us
BACK. staying on earth will only destroy us. you are aspiring to become perfect when perfection is out of our grasp. we need space. its either go into space and thrive, or stay on earth, stagnate and die. no exceptions. no alternatives.
by your logic we should have never colonized the Americas because we "weren't perfect" in Europe. grow up, discovery was driven by the shitty life we had back home. why do you think everyone left for America when they heard it was better over there? why leave space for "perfection"? and doom us to isolationism and ignorance only to die off when the ticking time bomb in our DNA goes off. its a real threat, look it up.
this post may seem mean to you, but saying someone who wants to go space "childish" is the one that is short sighted. Earth will kill us. We need to leave the cradle one day. You cant stay in it forever or the sun will go supernova and kill us all. That isn't counting space threats like Asteriods hitting us and killing humans the same way it killed the dinosaurs.
We need space, Earth wont last forever. It also fixes a lot of our problems faced today. You want to fix the problems on earth? well space and its benefits fixes most of it yet you marginalize it.