http://elliottback.com/wp/16-rare-space-images/ Internet & Technology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:01:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://elliottback.com/wp/16-rare-space-images/#comment-1730898 Stef Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:05:16 +0000 http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2006/07/01/16-rare-space-images/#comment-1730898 Is a picture worth millions (tens, hundreds of millions) of dollars? Yeah, sure. I don't think so, buddy. I mean, really--"Let's let the kiddies starve so that we can finance more colossal wasting of fuel, more grand-scale pollution, and we'll justify it having no significant return on our investment by saying, 'Look, we have these pretty pictures!'" Who in their right mind thinks that way? The reason people think the space program isn't doing anything for them is because what little advancement in science and technology actually comes from it, is sold by the government to the highest bidder (or the fattest senator...'s friend), and ends up costing the end consumer (ie. the average citizen) even more for the "convenience" then if the same results had been eventually developed in a laboratory. I'm glad I'm not American. Is a picture worth millions (tens, hundreds of millions) of dollars? Yeah, sure. I don’t think so, buddy. I mean, really–”Let’s let the kiddies starve so that we can finance more colossal wasting of fuel, more grand-scale pollution, and we’ll justify it having no significant return on our investment by saying, ‘Look, we have these pretty pictures!’”
Who in their right mind thinks that way?
The reason people think the space program isn’t doing anything for them is because what little advancement in science and technology actually comes from it, is sold by the government to the highest bidder (or the fattest senator…’s friend), and ends up costing the end consumer (ie. the average citizen) even more for the “convenience” then if the same results had been eventually developed in a laboratory. I’m glad I’m not American.

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