Random Politics & Religion #00

At least, in part, because of this.

TL;DR: Once it becomes a profitable venture for private industry we're going to probably see a new wave of imperialism, this time in space.

Prepare your anus and expect the headline:
Hillary Clinton, Empress of the Moon
Championed by Chancellor Gore, who has ridden the mighty moon worm

Yuri Milner, an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, is throwing $100 million at the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Powerful radio and optical telescopes will be drafted to listen and look for interstellar broadcasts, Milner announced July 20 at a news conference in London. The data will be made publicly available so that anyone can lend a hand in the hunt for E.T.

The plan is to listen and look for radio and laser transmissions from 1 million of the sun’s closest neighbors in addition to 100 of the nearest galaxies. The initiative, named Breakthrough Listen, guarantees up to 25 percent of the time available on two radio telescopes: Green Bank in West Virginia and Parkes in Australia. These instruments should be able to pick up transmissions as powerful as aircraft radar coming from any one of the 1,000 nearest stars.

And just in case aliens consider radio technology to be passé, the Automated Planet Finder at Lick Observatory near San Jose, Calif., will be on the lookout for visible flashes from laser-based communications.

The money, to be spent over the next 10 years, will also help develop the software needed to efficiently eavesdrop on our fellow galactic citizens.

my son was trying to get to the moon the other day & was getting super pissed off that he couldn't get up there.

Youg earth crazies believers rejoice!! Radioactive carbon dating won't be reliable anymore by 2050

Grab your ear trumpets and start listening too guys!

In 2006, amid a construction boom in Spain, a tiny town with a population a little over 75,000 people an hour outside Madrid built an airport for €1 billion ($1.1 billion). The town, Ciudad Real, at the time named the new airport after Don Quixote, the windmill-fighting fictional character famous for his delusions of grandeur.

Fittingly, it turns out.

Just a few years later, the construction boom turned into a bust when the bubble burst, making Spain one of the hardest hit countries as the financial crisis swept the world and effectively mothballing the airport.

Now, a Chinese investment company is set to buy the airport former known as Don Quixote—for a paltry €10,000, or $11,000. In fact, it was the only bidder.

The real question is why haven't we gone back yet and started mining it?

where did humanity's pioneering spirit go?!

some stupid *** imaginary friend in the sky

where did humanity's pioneering spirit go

Did you just diss my imaginary friend? I WILL CUT YOU.

We're busy watching Dancing with the Stars and killing each other because of some stupid *** imaginary friend in the sky.

Did you just diss my imaginary friend? I WILL CUT YOU.

Truth be told I've used that phrase a lot (regarding one's imaginary friend) and it's an insult to all other imaginary friends and I apologize for that.

I'll have you know if we were a nation of Atheists they still would kill each other over who is more Atheist than thou !

As annoying as some atheist evangelists can be, I've yet to see news of anyone carbombing a marketplace full of children because of the lack of their belief in a deity.

Then he learned that using logic and reason wasn't enough...you have to be a *** to everyone that doesn't think like you.

Comparing religious faith to scientific research is beyond cretin.

Violence I think is in our DNA

No, it isn't.

Science is the ultimate smug thing that takes itself too seriously. Like it is holier than thou.