Via Drudge comes word that Caltech
design majors used Photoshop with a little noise and blur over a radial background to create a space picture for the refridgerator door scientists used a really big fucking telescope to spy what may be the
oldest galaxy ever.
“It is exciting we can use this technique to get a glimpse of the universe when it was so young.” This geekspeak reminds me of the giddyupidness tornado chasers have when describing an
F5: “Wow, look at that rotation, it’s, it’s
beautiful!” Meanwhile, a town gets destroyed. Look, I’m all for space exploration, ‘to boldly go’ and all that, because if you stop exploring things, you stop learning and growing. But why does it seem that we have to keep looking away from the problems we haven’t dealt with here that the maintenance cost alone of one really big fucking telescope might solve.
Like why a bottle of water at Giants stadium
costs $4.00.
Via Drudge comes word that Caltech
4 comments:
I have this argument with my Dad all the time. He loves NASA and I question the expense.
But you know, Space Sticks, Tang and some other stuff I'm not sure about come from our experiences in space.
Imagine all the bright minds of NASA being focused for just one year on something like wind energy or hydroponic crop growing for poor African nations. Yeah, that sounds dreamy and naive, but fuck...
Ah well, what can you do?
Space Sticks are gross... :)
Well, ok, and velcro too. I’ll give them the nod there.
And I thought Velcro was invented by some farmer who found burrs on his dog.
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