Check out this pathetic thread - sour grapes if I've ever he

[Capitalist Imperial]

http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/top...m=11&topic=2648 (http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/topic.pl?forum=11&topic=2648)

LOL, LOL, This is so funny.

Could someone give me a knife so I can cut some of the vindictiveness out of this thread?

LOL, LOL

(Edited by Capitalist Imperial at 12:55 am on Jan. 11, 2003)

[antieverything]

You really think that anyone actually envies America because it threw away more money on something totally pointless than any other country in history? I'm sure as hell not proud of the fact that we put some guys on the moon. It isn't something that will get more than a simple mention in the history books of the future.

[Tkinter1]

AI,

Landing on the moon was a great human achievement. Even if the US was looking for envy, the greatness of this feet can not be denied.

[canikickit]

You're dead right, this thread is pathetic. Were all those "LOL" supposed to express something? You're sad.

"LOL, LOL" - ha, ha

"LOL" - ha

Look at those "LOL"s, they look forlorn, they look pathetic. I think you're gone fucking nuts CI. I really do; what the hell are you doing? Clicking around the site, looking at and reading other people's conversations? Why? You have nothing intelligent to contribute? What other threads do you read? Why do you read them? Are you that lonely? Are you that in need of company?

No doubt you will shrug this off as you looking for something to laugh about, right? But surely you have some more worthwhile interests than attempting to antagonise people you will more than likely never see by typing "LOL"?

Let's look at it one more time: "LOL". Are you laughing?
I'm not, I'm smirking wryly. You're pathetic.

[Umoja]

The thread was pretty Pathetic, but he was only being hypothetical but it was an achievement for humanity, so we should enjoy that.

[antieverything]

And how have any of us benefited from the moon landing?

I don't think that they faked it but I wish they did...would have saved us a shitload of money.

[MEXCAN]

I'M sure Canikickit can appreciate the moon,stars and far far away galaxies !!!!!???http://talfanzine.com/talforum/images/smiles/puke.gifhttp://talfanzine.com/talforum/images/smiles/pint.gif


(Edited by MEXCAN at 3:27 am on Jan. 11, 2003)

[Tkinter1]

"And how have any of us benefited from the moon landing?"

As with all human innovation, we progress from the simple beginning. We don't benefit directly from the moonlanding, no. It was as Neil Armstrong said, 'one giant leap for man kind'. It was a leap towards the future. It was not a material benefit... But I predict space mining operations in the near future.

In couple of years the Chinese space program and NASA are joining forces to attemp a landing on Mars. It will be interesting to see what they discover.

[American Kid]

I think that landing on the moon is quite the fucking accomplishment.

Absolutely the short-term benefits are hard to see (if, admittedly there are any at all.) But, and not to sound too sci-fi geeky, but the future of our species is in the hand of all this space exploration. Colonization is most definetely the future for all of us.

Neil Armstrong, conservative dick that he is, is no doubt about it, a poineer.

Dare I say it, a revolutionary.

For all you hatahs, stretch your mind a bit: How can't space exploration benefit all of us.....?
-AK

[Goldfinger]

I'm very fascinated by space exploration and stuff like that, but before we can start doing that, we must take care of the fundamentals of the society: making sure that no one starves, that everyone gets a job, that everyone has a place to stay.

[synthesis]

Actually, the amount the U.S. spends on space exploration and such is so unimaginably small, I think the as-yet-unforeseen benefits will be worth the cost.

For that matter, I do believe the silly "Space Race" or whatever it was called, the competition between the U.S. and Russia to get the man on the moon, was nothing more than two evil empires trying to prove whose dick was bigger.

[Umoja]

I think that's nuts. Leaving the Planet is the survival of our species. It's like in Lord of the Flies, we are trapped on an Island that is in careful balance, I'd rather be able to escape that island.

[Socialist Pig]

Maybe if we hadn't fucked up our planet so badly we wouldn't need to find others.

At the moment space flight takes up so many resources and does so little.

[Umoja]

So because something doesn't work efficeintly at first we should give up on it? Bye-bye Communism.

[antieverything]

So, what happens when we ruin the moon and mars? Nothing, we'll be shit out of luck because we'll never break the speed of light and the nearest star is over 6 light years away!

[Thine Stalin]

Put people in lots of space stations until all their bones shatter everytime they bang into the walls from all the floating.

But I dunno, I've always been a advocate of putting useless things on the moon, eg. garbage, blondes, nuclear waste, liberals.

[Thine Stalin]

Oh, I forgot to add lesbians to the list.

[antieverything]

What red-blooded man doesn't like lesbians?

[Tkinter1]

"So, what happens when we ruin the moon and mars? Nothing, we'll be shit out of luck because we'll never break the speed of light and the nearest star is over 6 light years away!"

Who says we have to break the speed of light to get there?

Who knows what we will be capable of in another hundred thousand years?

And Mars is absolutley gigantic. We won't be runing out of space anytime soon there.

[antieverything]

but there will be very little usable natural resources...wait a minute...what the fuck am I arguing about this trivial shit for?

We could have put that money into fighting the cause of environmental degradation instead of putting it into something that may prove useful some time in the distant future.

[Socialist Pig]

Quote: from Umoja on 1:09 am on Jan. 13, 2003
So because something doesn't work efficeintly at first we should give up on it? Bye-bye Communism.


That's not a fair comparison. Communism is a social and economic system, not a method for traveling to other planets. Let us concentrate on repairing the damage we have done to the enviroment before we waste billions on a space program.

[Capitalist Imperial]

More sour grapes!

[Sol]

The moon landing is important, but the space race is just an example of America's attitude towards cooperation. They used it as an incredibly expensive achievment to hold over the dirty Soviet's heads. Now, when space exploration could actually have some kind of benefit, we're starting to see some cooperation between nations. But only limited.

The west should be pooling their resources, working together to maximize their buck. Instead, handful of countries do the work and a bazillion dollars (yeah! that much!) is sucked out of a nation that will soon be faced with a record deficit.

The US uses space to show it's superiority, not to accomplish anything long term. Fuck NASA. My people are starving in the street.