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Whew! SOHO
See! This is proof that tax money given to science is more useful than tax money given to the arts! Think about it... the scientists are happy, as they get to collect huge piles of data. And look at the art! I'm sorry, but there simply aren't any artists out there that can match what nature can create on its own. We just need expensive spacecraft with high tech sensors to capture it! ...SOHO is only one example... Everyone has seen the pictures taken by hubble (since it got fixed at least.) Monet can bugger off... NASA has got him beat. Water lilies and haystacks compared to Extreme Ultraviolet pictures of Coronal Mass Ejections, and High Resolution images of the Horse Head Nebula... Come one now!
If we just give all of our tax dollars to NASA, I'm sure things will work out. I'm sure they'd be able to figure out how to do anything we needed using lasers, robots and high power rockets. Besides these lovely pictures, think of what else NASA has given us... theres velcro, heat proof ceramic tiles, ... and velcro! I'm sure there are other things too, but you kinda get stuck on velcro.... (har har, get it?)
Now don't get me wrong, I think that we still need duct tape to fix all of our small problems, but for the big stuff, we need massive engineering projects.
Oh well, I have 15 minutes until my data mining class starts, and I figure it will do me well to start thinking about data-mining related stuff. Of course I'd bet five bucks that my professor will take the first 15 minutes of class to talk about these two big solar flares, and probably even show us video of it.
So I'll just keep my head right where it belongs: up in the clouds, gazing skyward. |
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