a lot of folks that know me know that i love astronomy (no not fucking astrology) more than most. im geeky enough to mark eclipses on my calendar, meteor showers etc. i actually know what happens at solstices and equinoxes.
that being said: im sick to death of fucking Mars! enough! what the fuck are we going up there for all the time? what the hell do we think we'll find? a couple of microorganisms? how many billions of dollars have we spend to find these pieces of shit?
what the fuck are we gonna do with them if we find them? breed them to make more microorganisms? they barely have fucking water up there! will we try to start an earth 2 that will only take about 5 billion years to advance to life forms equivalent of Kevin Ferdeline?
how big is the fucking Universe and we keep going there? accomplishing nothing? it reminds me of when i would dj: all the thousands of songs to use and we would play the same god damn ones over and over (Play that Funky music, Staying alive, I will survive (at a wedding--no wonder 50 percent divorce rate) etc). expand your horizons NASA! And im literally talking to rocket scientists here!
Dead-on Ken. I've always loved astronomy(my DVR is always taping something on the Science channel regarding the universe, and i have the complete set of 'Cosmos' on DVD...also, Phil Plaitt blog on astronomy thought Discover website is cool). I've always been a supporter of NASA and exploration, but agree with you on the Mars thing. Colossal waste of time & money. That's why I've become ambicalent on money being spent at NASA,CalTech,right down the street from my apt,and others. We could use that money for our infrastructure,jobs,housing,education. I don't know. I'm torn.
ReplyDeletewell it seems like we always need exploration but unfortunately human exploration is very tough. but enough of goddamn Mars! but it seems like we're going in the right direction in many ways: less manned exploration which, unfortunately, is seeminly much easier, cheaper etc.
ReplyDeleteby the way i hope u go to the Griffith, it's pretty kick ass
ReplyDeleteKen- Yes, I've been to Griffith several times. Love it. Good restaurants & bookstore on Vermont, not far from there. Observatory was closed for almost two years in mid-2000's for renovation. Of course, they kept historical building in tact. It just needed some retrofitting and other work. I love it there...love the portrait of one of my heroes, Galileo. Reading an interesting book on Copernicus right now.
ReplyDeleteyep, good neighborhoods near. used to love Tangiers (?) on Silver lake? i was there when it was closed, seemed like forever. or a quasar's trip in an astronomical sense haha. Galileo is also a scientific hero to all of us i think (shud b). i've read about a lot of the big shots lately: one of my favorite books is the 100: a ranking of the most influential persons of history by Hart. Galileo 13, Copernicus around 24. Schelsinger the historian also ranked most influential of millenium (Shakespeare 1). Wikipedia has good stuff.
ReplyDeleteMy wife went to Tangiers a couple of times with work peeps. Not me. I do like Silver Lake/Los Feliz area.
ReplyDeleteit's good: people, atmosphere, nice outside smoke area/porch (i like to light up stogies some time). last place i saw folks off b fore i left L.A.
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