Posted on 05/27/2002 8:58:45 AM PDT by vannrox
Is life a highly improbable event, or is it rather the inevitable consequence of a rich chemical soup available everywhere in the cosmos? Scientists have recently found new evidence that amino acids, the 'building-blocks' of life, can form not only in comets and asteroids, but also in the interstellar space. This result is consistent with (although of course does not prove) the theory that the main ingredients for life came from outer space, and therefore that chemical processes leading to life are likely to have occurred elsewhere. This reinforces the interest in an already 'hot' research field, astrochemistry. ESA's forthcoming missions Rosetta and Herschel will provide a wealth of new information for this topic.
See Is life the rule or the exception? The answer may be in the interstellar clouds for the rest of the article.
You consent to give them your taxes, particularly
if you authorize payroll deductions. Your elected
representatives are giving consent to act in your
behalf when they are elected. If you do not wish
to participate in democracy, you can always leave.
But that is how this republic works, by your
implied consent through elected reps and
taxation.
To: exodus********************
Okay, say NASA does this, just a relatively simple trip to the surface and back. What would be the major payoff?
Political, I think.
Is it worth the money for the government to do this?
# 66 by RightWhale
Yes, it would be worth the money.
The payoff would be in learning practical applications for the technologies developed in the last three or four decades, and in the new technologies that will be discovered as a result of the full use of our present technology.
You have an engineering management degree, RightWhale. Assuming that you're not an environmentalist, you would know even better than I do the benefits increased technology would being to our society.
To: from occupied ga********************
Just because the government decides to do something does not mean that I consent to it. Get it yet?
You consent to give them your taxes, particularly if you authorize payroll deductions. Your elected representatives are (given) consent to act in your behalf when they are elected. If you do not wish to participate in democracy, you can always leave. But that is how this republic works, by your implied consent through elected reps and taxation.
# 84 by gcruse
"Consent" in the form of authorizing payroll deductions is compelled through threat of punishment by the government.
Also, "democracy" is not a form of republican government.
Let's not debate theology. Let's debate the science. NO scientist has CLAIMED to have found life on another planet. It is the bungled reporting by microcephalic reporters that makes it sound that way. They can't get a scientific story any straighter than they can a philosophical or religous issue. I would be most interested if you could provide direct quotes from scientist making such claims and the evidence that refute there statements. What typically happens is a hypothesis is formulated based on new found data and is subsequently refuted based on additional conflicting study. THAT'S HOW PROGRESS IS MADE. It is only seen as a claim and then disproof by the media.
That's why they call 'em theories, dude. Even the "laws" of gravity have been disproven on the quantum level with experimental evidence of relativities existence.
How about temperatures warmer than the freezing point of water?
How about temperatures warmer than the boiling point of water? A lot more.
10 large nukes on each pole would create a lot of steam. Make for a nice start of a greenhouse effect. We can monitor if it was enough of a kickstart. Visit after the dust settles. Hopefully no ticked off martians to deal with. :)
I think there is a study that shows what space technology/research returns back to our economy at least 3 times its cost?********************
I remember something like that.
I believe that the economic return is much higher.
Acceptance or approval of what is planned or done by another
with "cohersion." Do you (gcruse) work for the government? You said,
You consent to give them your taxes, particularly if you authorize payroll deductions.Wrong again. I pay taxes under threat of death. If I would not be murdered by the government's jack booted thugs for not paying them I wouldn't pay for anything that I didn't think was worthwhile. I would probably pay for the military. I surely wouldn't pay for the space program, the EPA, the Nation Endowment for the "arts", HUD, AFDC or any other form of welfare.
You said again,
Your elected representatives are (given) consent to act in your behalf when they are elected.
Wrong again, gcruse. This is a fiction that is used by statists to excuse all of the evils of government. By your (gcruse's) "logic" you approved of the murder of the Branch Davidians.
I just love this next lame statement. Statists frequently resort to this (fess up gcruse, you make your livelihood off taxes dontcha)
If you do not wish to participate in democracy, you can always leave.The whole south tried to leave about 140 years ago, but was not allowed to leave peacefully. America's first dictator killed 600,000 Americans to make sure that the south was not allowed to leave. Furthermore the Constitution of the US does NOT set up our governmnet as a democracy (which is nothing more than mob rule) It sets it up as a Republic.
Further you confused issues again by first calling our government is democracy then a republic. (as pointed out by exodus)
But that is how this republic works, by your implied consent through elected reps and taxation.Well that is how the Republic should have worked, but along with that the Constitution has very strict limits on what the government can spend money on. NOWHERE in the document is any authorization to take money from one group and squander it as largess upon another simply because the second group has more votes than the first.
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