[capitan_refugio]

This is a science thread. You might want to get back to the sports page.

[Aracelis]

Nah, they'll just pop another beer and continue to mess up this thread.

[cynicom]

"This is a science thread. You might want to get back to the sports page.

More apt to be the comics.

[from occupied ga]

Careful here there isn't anything more likely to get you flamed* than questioning the usefulness of public funded socialized science around here even though Jim R says on FR's home page

We oppose all forms of liberalism, socialism, fascism, pacifism, totalitarianism, anarchism, government enforced atheism, abortionism, feminism, homosexualism, racism, wacko environmentalism, judicial activism, etc

. The same people who decry the welfare state, think (rightly) that socialized medicine is a disaster have a peculiar blind spot for socialized science. Personally now that we know that Mars consists of rocks and dirt, but probably had salty oceans about 2 or 3 billion years ago, so what. It's too far away to economically strip mine it, likewise too far away for a cost effective nuclear waste dump.

* Well daring to criticise St George Bush on his liberal spending or his sucking up to Teddy Kennedy or his support of gun control or his no child left behind policy or his total lack of vetos on the estrogen fueled day-in-the-life-of thread will get a bunch of whiney old maids on your case even quicker