(Regarding a news article suggesting that NASA found DNA, or some of the building blocks of it, in space)
finding meteoritic trace amounts of these chemical compounds are tantamount to finding gold in sea water. just another nasa ploy to keep program funding's flowing, they're playing you like fiddle and you don't even know it.
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finding meteoritic trace amounts of these chemical compounds are tantamount to finding gold in sea water. just another nasa ploy to keep program funding's flowing, they're playing you like fiddle and you don't even know it.
I don’t really get what he trying to say here. There is gold in seawater but why bring it up in connection to this issue? Does he think that it is also a “ploy”? And if NASA is so good in playing people, why is their funding cut even more every year?
"just another nasa ploy to keep program funding's flowing"
So how much money do you think NASA gets out of each tax dollar? Go ahead, tell us...
@MK:
Snowtracks may not necessarily be a theist. Unfortunately, I have come across members of the irreligious community that express such opinions. The BBC comments section on Philae's landing on comet 67p was a train wreck full of such people, from religious and irreligious backgrounds, moaning about this "waste of money from Europe."
Perhaps he is referring to the increasing number of organic compounds found in interstellar dust. Here is a recent article:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140925141222.htm
It's purely speculation on my part, but my guess is we'll find the organic building blocks of life are formed, and already spread, throughout our galaxy. In which case, extraterrestrial life may not be "beyond our wildest imagination." There may be close analogues to life on Earth.
just another nasa ploy to keep program funding's flowing
Yes, and they call it "tithe".
Oh, no, wait, that's what the churches call the money they get for claiming some invisible spirit is running everybody's lives. And "God works in strange ways" is their "ploy to keep program funding's flowing, they're playing you like fiddle and you don't even know it."
Silly!
Everyone knows that DNA in Space could only come from the dinosaurs that were shot out of the Earth by the water cannons that the hydroplates caused. (Duh!)
And fish. And goats. And a few other things that Noah named the constellations after.
Doubting Thomas:
If that were true then they'd be announcing that they're on the verge of perfecting a perpetual motion machine that runs on orgone energy.
All you have to do, is to invent a bullshit-to-electricity converter and let the fundies scream from the top of their lungs!
@ Meeeh:
All you have to do, is to invent a bullshit-to-electricity converter and let the fundies scream from the top of their lungs!
Either that, or go to the graves of our founding fathers and connect their skeletons to generators. Then let the conservative fundies talk about how the United States was intended to be a Christian theocracy. David Barton alone could keep the eastern seaboard running nonstop by keeping Thomas Jefferson rolling in his grave.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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