I had read a similar article to what Flann posted.
I agree with what you've said.
That and the insistence of transparency so that a determination can be made if any arguments proposed for continuing some of the more odd studies are not based on sunk cost fallacies.
I suggested people do their own research (fact checking).
Of course I was met with knee-jerk reactions and generalizations like "no need to cut science funding to help the needy!"
Ironically, it was the theist in the house that demonstrated the willingness and reasonableness to examine this further.
But my initial point/suggestion still stands.
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no that was no knee-jerk reaction, i was simply pointing out that the massive spending on the military industrial complex amounts to trillions which could be better spent on science AND helping the needy rather than destroying lives in foreign countries in the name of the american people.knee-jerk reactions and generalizations like "no need to cut science funding to help the needy!"
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-war-on-waste/
$2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.
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ant, it is so straightforward
there was talk of cutting science funding to help the needy.
i simply pointed out that the military spending was a far better target.
the elephant in the room so to speak.
there was talk of cutting science funding to help the needy.
i simply pointed out that the military spending was a far better target.
the elephant in the room so to speak.
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Carl Sagan wrote:Less than a century after Maxwell's prediction of radio waves, the first quest was initiated for signals from possible civilizations on planets of other stars. Since then there have been a number of searches, some of which I referred to earlier, for the time-varying electric and magnetic fields crossing the vast interstellar distances from possible other intelligences - biologically very different from us - who had also benefited sometime in their histories from the insights of local counterparts of James Clerk Maxwell.
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What are those things? For the past eight years, astronomers have been scratching their heads over a series of strange radio signals emanating from somewhere in the cosmos. And now, the mystery has deepened.
A new study shows that the so-called "fast radio bursts" follow a weirdly specific pattern -- a finding that the researchers behind the study say "is very hard to explain. There is something really interesting we need to understand," study co-author Michael Hippke, a scientist at the Institute for Data Analysis in Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany, told New Scientist. "This will either be new physics, like a new kind of pulsar, or, in the end, if we can exclude everything else, an E.T."
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"If we can exclude everything else"
Sure. When does that happen?
So when we exclude everything else that might have been responsible for everything, we can safely conclude NOTHING is responsible.
Anything except a God.
No, not that!
Sure. When does that happen?
So when we exclude everything else that might have been responsible for everything, we can safely conclude NOTHING is responsible.
Anything except a God.
No, not that!
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When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
Isaiah 1:15
But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
Exodus 21: 23 - 25
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
Isaiah 1:15
But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
Exodus 21: 23 - 25
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We will have to wait for Interbane to chime in and defend ET's transmission and tell us when and why we will be able to tell it is an intelligent communication.
For starters ET will communicate in binary code. And because darwinian evolution is universal, it is logical that ET would have developed science at some point.
And ET wants to talk to us.
Whereas God most certainly does not exist because we have ruled him out scientifically.
And because he hasnt appeared to us, does not follow the rules of our almighty logic, and because he hasnt signed His name some where for us to find (ie "God was here")
For starters ET will communicate in binary code. And because darwinian evolution is universal, it is logical that ET would have developed science at some point.
And ET wants to talk to us.
Whereas God most certainly does not exist because we have ruled him out scientifically.
And because he hasnt appeared to us, does not follow the rules of our almighty logic, and because he hasnt signed His name some where for us to find (ie "God was here")
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