A couple thoughts about the tsunami's and the new year

[TheBlizzard]

I think the US has done more than its share of helping out fellow countries in their time of need. As well as letting thousands upon thousands of non US born people to make the US their homes. I agree with Mike that we should not feel obligated to help everyone in the world out in their times of need. However we shouldn't turn our back either. There have to be a happy medium that our country should take in aiding other countries across the world without the feeling of being 'exploited'. Sometimes I think this country is relied on a lot more than it should be.

CRAIG

[AJ]

Here's another crock of shit :

If you look around at places like NFL.com you will see big talk about donations from NFL teams. What you have to continue to read to see is that these money hungry fucks are either donating amounts like 15k (which is for a whole team and equal to me giving away a dollar compared to my income) or helping collect donations and not actually spend any cash themselves. But hey, lets pay some 20 yr old 10 million a year to play a game for a living.

[TheBlizzard]

The greed of people today in sports was evident when the Minnesota Timberwolves went to resign Latrell Sprewell. The fucker had the nerve to turn down a mulit-million dollar deal saying that "I need more money to feed my family". If you can't feed your fucking family off 8 million dollars a year you have some god damn problems.

You can say that with a lot of things though. Prime example is; if everybody in the country was a organ donar there would be absolutely no shortage of organs for people in need of one. As it sits now there is a huge waiting list for organs and people are dieing everyday because of it. All it takes is a little check mark on your drivers license renewal and you could be saving a lot of lives.

I recently heard a story of a kid that supposedly commited suicide. Well he was an organ donar. His parents received a letter awhile after his death stated that their sons organs helped save the lives of 39 people. Just a little food for thought.

CRAIG

[Raptor]

That is pretty cool, i would donate mine, but no body would want the damn things :( Probably make them worse off.

[LightningGSX]

I should really stop reading CNN. With the huge financial burdens of Tsunamis and the war etc, somehow our brilliant government thinks it is worthwhile to spend 330 million to send a spacecraft 80 million miles away to crash into an asteroid so they can see what happens. If they even catch the stupid thing, how productive is it? They want to know if it has ice inside etc. I am sure there is some benefit to them in some way, but is it really a justification to spend that much cash.

It will give us data on the possibility of stopping a humanity-ending impact in the future, and there's no "IF" about it, an object somewhere IS on a collision course with earth.Even though I'll probably be long dead, the thought of a comet/asteroid hitting the earth,ending our legacy as humans and millions of years of progress, in the future doesn't sit well with me.I think $330 mil(a bargain compared to other NASA projects) is more than justified.And I think it's nice to know people at NASA think beyond their lifetimes.

BTW, Tempel 1 is a comet, not an asteroid.

[Raptor]

It will give us data on the possibility of stopping a humanity-ending impact in the future, and there's no "IF" about it, an object somewhere IS on a collision course with earth.Even though I'll probably be long dead, the thought of a comet/asteroid hitting the earth,ending our legacy as humans and millions of years of progress, in the future doesn't sit well with me.I think $330 mil(a bargain compared to other NASA projects) is more than justified.And I think it's nice to know people at NASA think beyond their lifetimes.

BTW, Tempel 1 is a comet, not an asteroid.


If it is such a serious project with valid merits, they should probably try to convey those aspects of it a little better when giving the press info. They made it sound like they were more interested in blowing shit up gaining useful knowledge. Of course I realize that isn't the sole goal of the project and I know what they are after in the end, however, I think considering the events of the last week, they could have made the benefits of the mission more obvious. Some of that is the media slant I am sure, but you get my point.

[LightningGSX]

Yeah I just searched for, and read the CNN article.I see what you mean, they made it seem like it was for entertainment purposes only.