@TrashCat oh yeah. I feel sorry for those that just gotta have that assault rifle today. Not next week but now. All the good deer are being slaughtered as we speak
@TrashCat The New Horizons mission cost 700 million.
The American government retains many old schools, firehouses, and offices, that aren’t being used anymore. The annual cost of those vacant and derelict buildings is around 1.7 [i]billion[/i] dollars.
@newjaninev2 Well let's sell that stuff off. If we're not using it We could give that $1.7billion to trump so he can put up his curtains or we can give it to the VA so they can improve care for our Veterans. It's all good to me
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i want to take it to dinner and ask it where it's been
The technology and science of this flyby is impressive. I do not know what the practical use of this information is or will be but it was basically free. The original New Horizons mission was funded to take pictures of Pluto. It successfully did that and then the NASA scientists figured out a way to extend the mission by photographing this object. Kind of like a two for one special.
If is was a 21 mile long diamond that we can bring to Earth then I am all for the spending - just land that thing near the beach and I will pick at it and be rich --- or would I ?
@MarmeeMarch when LBJ got that welfare boosted or whatever he traveled to some places that were below poverty level more than others. One place he went to was Inez, Kentucky. It's a 20 minute drive from West Virginia. It has/ had a population of 600. It was real Appellation (sp) in coal country or one county away, anyway his idea was to drive to some poor hillbilly's home(preselected) to personally tell him that his life was gonna be better with federal money to boost his welfare check. So he and his limo plus secret service just show up at this guy's place and the guy is sitting on his porch and up comes the presidential limo and staff, security, and paparazzi he gets out of the limo wells up to the porch shades the guy's hand tells him the good news, takes a couple of pictures, then walks back to his limo and drives back to D.C. 1964 give or take. Sometime in the 80's the guy is still on his porch, his home in the same condition, still no job and facing incest charges. He was guilty but didn't know it was illegal to sleep with the "young" niece or that first cousins. Bye freely told the police when asked. They were engaged or fixing to be til the law intervened. The girl didn't know and had no complaints nor did her parents.
@kentex35 I read that the inspiration was wood, specifically burned wood, but I can't find the story online now. But it also is the myth of the place beyond the ends of the known world. Anything else, you'll have to look up yourself when you are in the bathroom.
