[Wizdum]

It must be hard to be a scientist. Long hours over a microscope. Days of calculations with strange formulas. Little pay. No recognition. There is always a temptation to see a breakthrough discovery where there is really none.

Well, it can be pretty fun spending lots of other people's money to find out something doesn't work.

The downside is you don't get laid a lot.

[I Buried My Guns]

"...The downside is you don't get laid a lot."

Well then, I missed my true calling, because I would have been a perfect fit.

anyway, I am sensing a pattern with NASA: first, they become a de facto muslim outreach service, and now they claim to find a life form that benefits from arsenic. Since it has been shown that society benefits from feeding muslims liberal doses of arsenic, I sense some kind of sinister plot.

Or an awesome solution. Whatever.

[Erasmus]

The downside is you don't get laid a lot.

Robert Klein did a great bit about this, which I paraphrase thusly:

"
We idolize rock stars and baseball players, and then we ignore the true heroes, like the Jonas Salks that give us life-saving cures.

They slave away all their lives over microscopes and they can't even get laid!

You ever heard of a scientist groupie?

(Imitating a teeny-booper:) Ooooh, baby, I love that hairline and that pocket protector and those little horn-rimmed glasses! Come here baby, I want you!!
"