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| Watsisname | Date: Wednesday, 09.11.2016, 23:43 | Message # 3301 |
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| Quote Hornblower (  ) I wonder what his stance is on NASA funding
It appears unclear. Sometimes he says space exploration is important and wants to send humans to Mars. Other times he says potholes are more important than space in what I can only take to be a dismissive and uninterested manner. There have been a number of queries on his stance on scientific matters sent to his campaign. I think the responses are very disheartening. For example:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article....science
His views about climate change and even the scientific basis of climate change are horrifying.
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| Hornblower | Date: Thursday, 10.11.2016, 00:48 | Message # 3302 |
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| Watsisname, Pretty much, he's been very inconsistent on every topic (except for climate change, which is very scary).
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| Hornblower | Date: Thursday, 10.11.2016, 03:46 | Message # 3303 |
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| Hornblower | Date: Thursday, 10.11.2016, 04:07 | Message # 3304 |
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Thursday, 10.11.2016, 05:19 | Message # 3305 |
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| midtskogen | Date: Thursday, 10.11.2016, 05:32 | Message # 3306 |
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| Quote Watsisname ( ) I wonder what his stance is on NASA funding
I think his opinion is that NASA should concentrate on space, not climate, so space exploration wise he probably isn't so bad. The "space" bugdet is fragile under any government, as there are will always be more pressing needs.
I don't find it much surprising that he got elected. A lot of people wanted to send a wake-up call to the elite and establishment. But some commentaries so far reveal so little insight in that camp, so I don't know if it's working, commentaries that are even dumber than Trump's voters.
Trump is probably much better for US-Russia relations than Clinton. Trump and Putin understand each other. Both have support from the same kind of voters, and will understand each others policies and less likely interfere with each other. I think they will divide the world between them, whereas Clinton would have no less than world dominition, making her very dangerous when a need for diplomacy arise.
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Edited by midtskogen - Thursday, 10.11.2016, 05:39 |
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| Watsisname | Date: Thursday, 10.11.2016, 10:24 | Message # 3307 |
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| I think that may be his view too, but it's a poorly informed opinion.
NASA's scientific contributions are multidisciplinary and go just as much towards understanding Earth as understanding space, even since the Apollo program. Largely because of the Apollo program, which was pivotal in getting us to regard the Earth itself as a planet worthy of study and emphasized the usefulness of space-based observations. Researchers around the world use remote sensing data from NASA-based missions to study everything from geology, biology, oceanography, the cryosphere, the atmosphere, weather and climate. To gut these programs to focus on space exploration alone would set a lot of our science back. And all of these fields are relevant to climate science, so we cannot simply say "have NASA leave climate science but allow the rest".
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| midtskogen | Date: Thursday, 10.11.2016, 11:14 | Message # 3308 |
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| The main implication seems to be that "climate change" in the application, however indirectly related to the project, is no longer a magic word for funding. I'm sure they can just rephrase the applications slightly and do business as before, funding being no more or less fragile than before.
Typing this at the airport on my way to Seoul)
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Edited by midtskogen - Thursday, 10.11.2016, 11:16 |
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| spacer | Date: Thursday, 10.11.2016, 14:17 | Message # 3309 |
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| the only thing i hate about him is his science views and that he doesnt believe in it.
and his racism.
for me there is differences between racism and the terror phenomenas.
if you bring 1000 foreigns ppl to your country and even 1 of them doing attack that kills ppl.
for me it doesnt worth to bring that 1000 ppl at all at cost of lives.
so yes, i prefer not to give shelter to that 1000 ppl if even one of them will take innocent ppl lives.
"we began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still"
-carl sagan
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Edited by spacer - Thursday, 10.11.2016, 14:18 |
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| Aerospacefag | Date: Thursday, 10.11.2016, 16:19 | Message # 3310 |
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| I don't see any reasons to hate or like mr. Trump yet.
He didn't do anything special.
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| Mosfet | Date: Thursday, 10.11.2016, 16:40 | Message # 3311 |
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| Quote Aerospacefag ( ) I don't see any reasons to hate or like mr. Trump yet.
He didn't do anything special.
I guess it depends on your definition of "special".
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Thursday, 10.11.2016, 17:08 | Message # 3312 |
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| RockoRocks | Date: Thursday, 10.11.2016, 17:50 | Message # 3313 |
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| Quote spacer ( ) for me there is differences between racism and the terror phenomenas.
if you bring 1000 foreigns ppl to your country and even 1 of them doing attack that kills ppl.
for me it doesnt worth to bring that 1000 ppl at all at cost of lives.
so yes, i prefer not to give shelter to that 1000 ppl if even one of them will take innocent ppl lives.
Sorry, but I'm almost certain the actual percentage of 'foreigns ppl' that commit terrorist attacks is far, far lower than 1 in 1000. There is no evidence for the percentage being anything like that and if it were then there would be probably many, many more terrorist attacks in Western countries annually. And even if this statistic were somehow true, it would still be absurd to do something like that. There are currently about 321 million US inhabitants and there were about 35000 traffic-related accidents in 2015, which means about 1 in 100.000 Americans were killed in an accident that year alone. Does that mean we should ban all motor vehicles and traffic?
I will be inactive on this forum for the time being. Might come back eventually
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Edited by RockoRocks - Thursday, 10.11.2016, 17:51 |
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| Payload_defaultNick4361 | Date: Thursday, 10.11.2016, 18:16 | Message # 3314 |
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| Hi gays! How a you?..
Hi, DoctorOfSpace.
ps. H, RockoRocks ^)
pps. Hi, Mosfet
Aerospacefag, Вы тоже здесь что-ли.
Edited by Payload_defaultNick4361 - Thursday, 10.11.2016, 18:19 |
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| Banana | Date: Friday, 11.11.2016, 00:39 | Message # 3315 |
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| Climate change is proving itself to be an even more pressing issue, considering that 2015, the hottest year on record, will be nothing out of the ordinary by 2025.
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