I find myself agreeing, again, with Phoenix. Tabun also says it well. I think in general, there are few things more entertaining then watching scientist trip over eachother "proving" and "disproving" theories left and right. It's amazing how clueless some of our brightest minds actually are.
Take Spirit, the Mars lander, for example. Seriously, I can understand overloading the hard-drive. I do that occasionally myself. But spending all that time not even being able to figure it out???
Speaking of NASA, funny (and true) story.
When NASA first began sending people up into space, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens don't function in zero gravity. Having discovered this, they spent around 10 months and millions of taxpayer dollars, developing a pen that could write upside-down, in zero G, in temperatures from below freezing to way past boiling, and on any surface including glass.
The Russians used a pencil.
|