Budget hike won't save Hubble

Tim Killian wrote:
Military-funded science developed penicillin, the first influenza
vaccine, radar, practical rocket engines, and it discovered X-ray
sources outside our solar system. Please take your ignorance somewhere
else.

It also gave us bioweapons, nukes, and nerve gas. And you think this
was a good thing?
Radar was needed to stop Nazi bombings of England. Rocket engines were
perfected in an attempt to negate that radar, and advanced to deliver nukes.

Shawn

Tim Killian wrote:

Military-funded science developed penicillin, the first influenza
vaccine, radar, practical rocket engines, and it discovered X-ray
sources outside our solar system. Please take your ignorance somewhere
else.

What if the money would have been put into non-military research.
Wouldn't they have achieved the same minus the weapons? So don't you
call me ignorant. You seem to be taking military and wars for granted.

Knud.

Pick up some history books and educate yourself. Naiveté is cute in
small children, but not so good in adults who plan to vote. War and
military activity are part of the human condition. Denying that reality
or playing "what if" games may be entertaining, but reality always finds
a way to intrude.



Knud wrote:

Tim Killian wrote:

Military-funded science developed penicillin, the first influenza
vaccine, radar, practical rocket engines, and it discovered X-ray
sources outside our solar system. Please take your ignorance somewhere
else.


What if the money would have been put into non-military research.
Wouldn't they have achieved the same minus the weapons? So don't you
call me ignorant. You seem to be taking military and wars for granted.

Knud.

Tim Killian wrote:
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Pick up some history books and educate yourself. Naivet=E9 is cute in
small children, but not so good in adults who plan to vote. War and
military activity are part of the human condition. Denying that reality=

or playing "what if" games may be entertaining, but reality always find=
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a way to intrude.

Wow, now that is very educated and makes it more easy to understand, why
there are people in power who don't care for anything but power. Not for
people or civil rights or peoples right to live or science or anything
else. "It's nature". No it is not. You pick up soe history books and try
to find out when the modern world seemingly left the uncivilized middle
ages behind. Well, some part's still like to play roman empire. And you
are right, lying, bribing and being bribed are still the same as 2000
years ago.

Go ahead, kill someone, for the good of men. That's what you mean, or?


Knud.