Here's why NASA is ramming a spacecraft into an asteroid

[ToxicBunny]

I worked at the CSIR for quite a few years and witnessed first-hand how the Department of Science and Technology, as well as the NSF, pushed against pure research proposals. In a few instances, complete labs were shut down. Universities, on the other hand, are not solely dependent on funding from the govt and thus have more say in what research is carried out. I think the tide has turned again and slowly but surely, pure research is once again receiving more attention. Hence, why this project by NASA is so important. Nothing like a few successes to push things along

So yeah, if it was funded by government, then pure research was pushed back against without a doubt. My experience is more with the Universities who had private donors for research so there was still a good chunk of pure research being done but "quietly", and often its done alongside more palatable research programs.

 

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Been wanting to use this gif for a long time

 

[Moosedrool]

When we get proof of how throwing a grain of salt at a one inch ball bearing is going to create new tech, I may alter my stance.

But they’re not, they’re accurately throwing 570kg thing at 22430 kmph towards a 5 billion kg asteroid to change its orbit.

Tell me all tech needed to do that?

 

[ForceFate]

Any statement from FES and the twitter FE brigade?

 

[Moosedrool]

Dodging the question and obfuscating the topic, we are not talking about earthquakes.
But even if we allow it, the amount of humans deaths due to earthquakes vs those due to meteorites give ample data. The Boxing Day Tsunami was hardly a black swan event.

In the area it was. "It wouldn't ever happen..." So no preparations were made, no warning systems, no evacuation plans or anything was put in place. This experiment is far more amazing and ambitious than you make it out to be.

 

[Enzo Matrix]

Ron swanson = cosmik debris

Prove me wrong

 

[Cosmik Debris]

Don’t agree with this. We’re very robust and adaptable when we need to be.

Yeah, those big lizards thought the same...

 

[RonSwanson]

Ron swanson = cosmik debris

Prove me wrong

The burden of proof lies with you.

 

[RonSwanson]

In the area it was. "It wouldn't ever happen..." So no preparations were made, no warning systems, no evacuation plans or anything was put in place. This experiment is far more amazing and ambitious than you make it out to be.

Why hijack this thread though, why not start your own Earthquake / Tsunami love thread.

 

[ForceFate]

Ron swanson = cosmik debris

Prove me wrong

More ≡ than =

 

[surface]

Ron swanson = cosmik debris

Prove me wrong

True in terms of supreme genetic aryan material.

 

[Moosedrool]

Why hijack this thread though, why not start your own Earthquake / Tsunami love thread.

Are you not understanding why I use this natural disaster to argue your reasoning?

 

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They were also a decent boy band.

 

[Pitbull]

Dodging the question and obfuscating the topic, we are not talking about earthquakes.
But even if we allow it, the amount of humans deaths due to earthquakes vs those due to meteorites give ample data. The Boxing Day Tsunami was hardly a black swan event.

What a crock of shyte...

Even your analogy fails in all means possible.

But let's go with your reasoning:
So Wright brothers should never have spent time and materials on coming up with a plane even after numerous failed attempts? We should just never have had medicine to where it progressed to being able to transplant organs. I mean, why waste time and energy on researching right? O even better yet, why even try and cook meat, I mean it's fine raw right. Who's idea was it to cook meat in the first place? Or who decided "I will drink whatever comes out of any animal" to realize Milk is actually good?

Fk it, let's all just dig holes and sink our heads in it right? What's the point!

 

[RonSwanson]

What a crock of shyte...

Even your analogy fails in all means possible.

But let's go with your reasoning:
So Wright brothers should never have spent time and materials on coming up with a plane even after numerous failed attempts? We should just never have had medicine to where it progressed to being able to transplant organs. I mean, why waste time and energy on researching right? O even better yet, why even try and cook meat, I mean it's fine raw right. Who's idea was it to cook meat in the first place? Or who decided "I will drink whatever comes out of any animal" to realize Milk is actually good?

Fk it, let's all just dig holes and sink our heads in it right? What's the point!

Your second statement is quite ironic, considering that the rest of your argument is quite possibly the worst form of strawman that I have ever seen.

It's so bad I will give you an award for it:

 

[WizardOfAges]

Ron swanson = cosmik debris

Prove me wrong

Ron Swanson is possibly someone else's alt, but I do not think it's Cosmik.

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

Ron is openly racist, Cosmic is much more careful and astute
Maybe they are friends but very much doubt its the same person

 

[Enzo Matrix]

Ron is openly racist, Cosmic is much more careful and astute
Maybe they are friends but very much doubt its the same person

Both are dumb as a tree stump, and even more obtuse

 

[PrimeSteak]

Why is there a war in this thread over NASA ramming asteroids???

 

[WizardOfAges]

Why is there a war in this thread over NASA ramming asteroids???

NASA ramming asteroids is the newest depravity that the Left has exposed our vulnerable children to.

Sickening.