NASA video to be shown before "Star Trek: Into Darkness" - this one is equal parts squee and appalled sadness. Squee, because NASA - and SCIENCE FICTION - and they are COMING TOGETHER - and OMG for any fan of the great Out There this is something that makes the heart race. Reality is - or may be - approaching those flights of the imagination which have always filed me with joy and awe, and it's enough to make me dance. But the other - read the small print - after a *successful Indiegogo campaign* - NASA is getting CROWDFUNDED? *REALLY*? We can spend bloody gajillions on a semi-functional war plane that is simply and solely a killing machine... but reaching out to the stars gets CROWDFUNDED? By pennies thrown at it by the public? The priorities here are so screwed up that I could weep and gnash my teeth and tear my hair out. The idea that our road to the stars is being paved by... well, probably by people like me, with more enthusiasm than wherewithal... we should have had that moonbase by now. If the funding had been channelled to where it should have been channelled, human curiosity and exploration and moving us forward, the BEST of us, rather than on figuring out how better to kill one another.
A couple of things that caught my eye today -
NASA video to be shown before "Star Trek: Into Darkness" - this one is equal parts squee and appalled sadness. Squee, because NASA - and SCIENCE FICTION - and they are COMING TOGETHER - and OMG for any fan of the great Out There this is something that makes the heart race. Reality is - or may be - approaching those flights of the imagination which have always filed me with joy and awe, and it's enough to make me dance. But the other - read the small print - after a *successful Indiegogo campaign* - NASA is getting CROWDFUNDED? *REALLY*? We can spend bloody gajillions on a semi-functional war plane that is simply and solely a killing machine... but reaching out to the stars gets CROWDFUNDED? By pennies thrown at it by the public? The priorities here are so screwed up that I could weep and gnash my teeth and tear my hair out. The idea that our road to the stars is being paved by... well, probably by people like me, with more enthusiasm than wherewithal... we should have had that moonbase by now. If the funding had been channelled to where it should have been channelled, human curiosity and exploration and moving us forward, the BEST of us, rather than on figuring out how better to kill one another.
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