I agree with you that the money that has been spent on wars could have been spent on feeding the hungry. I wish it had been spent on feeding the hungry.
--- In Politics_CurrentEvents_Group@yahoogroups.com, "Gary" <garyrumor2@...> wrote:
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> How Goes Age Of Aquarius?
> June 27th, 2011
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> There is a show on the Science Channel, called "through the wormhole." It's got an episode on the sun burning out and humans spreading out into the universe like cancer. Since this is an approximately 10 dimensional universe, we can count on there being another dimension with an Earth just ready for us to hop on board. Sort of like the peace train in the song.
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> I am concerned with the reality. This is the 50th anniversary of manned space flight and there is no celebration, instead we are shutting down the American space program. No money. NASA has a website.
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> http://www.nasa.gov/50th/home/index.html
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> But I haven't heard any kind of a big deal in schools where promotion of science and math and the space program went hand in hand back in the 1960's. Social issues have taken precedence, that and wars. The money spent on wars could be spent on space exploration, ending hunger, etc. We have the technology. What seems to be lacking is the desire. There are plenty of scientists dreaming and tinkering, but with current budget cuts, the USA may have to give way to China, India and the EU as the main research science centers. India, Russia, China, Iran, Japan and the EU are all developing space programs. Much of it is defense related, but some, just enough perhaps squeaks through the various governments and their interest groups to fund a little basic research.
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> http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2011/02/25/orbach-on-house-research-budget-cuts/
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> http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/
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> I am no longer going to reprint whole articles. After doing some research on copyright law, there is a question as to whether fair use covers this. I don't think I am causing economic harm, and I am sure that the spreading of knowledge more than justifies the cost to the copyright holders, but as someone who writes, and wants at some point to be compensated for my writing, I am showing a little solidarity with my fellow authors. Someday, not today, not tomorrow, but soon I hope to be at the point where I can be compensated for my writing. Hopefully it will be in some form of people's credit exchange, and not simply reproducing capitalist means of production.
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> The interesting thing is that we are in a time when fossil fuels are rapidly reaching or have reached peak production. Soon there will be a state of diminishing return. What is required is a major effort in finding alternative energy sources on a large scale. There are many efforts around the world in development but again the USA lags behind. Why? Vested interests, a backward looking set of politicians with a president who has a vision of moving ahead, but who seems to be mired in the details of simply getting by. Like most Americans, President Obama seems to have hunkered down, as if preparing for another dark age instead of the birth of a new age. Remember Aquarius? All that optimism, where is it now? In school I don't see excited youth, I see people simply trying to get by, resisting learning, defensive, wanting to know what they are going to get out of a course, what is the minimum that can be done to get a grade. It is a different mentality than when I was in school before, one that is more cynical, less willing to take risks, more calculating of the odds, seeking footholds in the status quo, wearing their hipness, not as a badge of courage and curiosity, but as a shield to ward off unwanted inspection. Individuality as a mark of indifference to what the world may throw at them. This is a generation that expects to be beaten down before it happens; they are wincing along into the future.
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