So yeah, I'm checking out the news, skimming stories in the New York Times today, and I find this piece about budget cuts at NASA. In the third graph, I spot this amusing tidbit:Among the casualties of the budget cuts are attempts to look for habitable planets and perhaps life elsewhere in the galaxy, an investigation of the dark energy that seems to be ripping the universe apart, bringing a sample of Mars back home to Earth, and exploring for life under the ice of Jupiter's moon Europa — as well as numerous smaller programs and individual research projects that astronomers say are the wellsprings of new science and new scientists.
Budget cuts are tough. Nobody likes to tighten belts. But do you think, just maybe, it would be a good idea to squirrel away a little dough for this "dark energy that seems to be ripping the universe apart" thing?
My recommendation: a laser cannon mounted on a golf cart driven by a talking duck.
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I feel like that was the journalist's idea of a joke. or something. that can't possibly be a REAL project.
I can see how that can be on the back burner... we have to see how jello reacts to zero gravity environments.
I betcha those aliens living in the so-called 'dark energy' are spending gazillions trying to figure out how to accelerate that ripping.
Little do they know that all we need to see them are x-ray glasses.
What on earth was the premiss of that movie? I went to a church function once and the parents rented that bc they thought it was a Disney flick, but it began with that duck finding condoms or something. (It came out when I was really young.)
Needless to say, they turned it off and I never got to finish it. Anyone willing to let me in on what happened so I don't have to rent it?
Nancy
Ah, Nancy... you're missing out on a true 1980s classic. True; Howard does produce a feathered condom at one point. But ignore that and focus on the pure cheese of mid-1980s special effects and synth-pop.
Premise? You're kidding, right?
a dark force tearing apart the universe?
has anyone seen Rickards lately?
Seems as if the people in The White House just wanted one less investigation of themselves.
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