RE: NASA telescope finds planet in habitible zone
December 6, 2011 at 2:38 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2011 at 2:39 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(December 6, 2011 at 1:08 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Or we could do like that one race in hitchhiker's. Put all the undesirables on one ship and then program it to go somewhere else.
Didn't England try that with Australia and the United States?
Look at how that turned out. Terrible. Just terrible.
I say just finish trashing the earth and THEN build the space ships and have all the undesirables stay here while the rest of us head for an unspoiled paradise.
By the time their descendants return to Earth via anti-matter powered and Alcubierre driven spacecraft, they can then film the result and send that documentary back in time. The movie is Idiocracy.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
