Asteroid Flyby - watch it live on slooh.com!
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They I believe had the time wrong, it was my understanding that the closest part of the flyby was just after six o'clock Eastern Time.
Yeah, there wasn't much in the way of visuals, just a small streak across the telescope field... it happened pretty fast and wasn't very large. Still, I thought the discussion was pretty good, interesting information presented in an accessible way.
Better keep a defibrillator nearby, just in case. ;-) Ah, Woody, I wish he was still with us... I mean, I know he's still with] us, but he's not really with us anymore, you know? *coughSoonYicough* :-(
Thanks, I'll keep those places in mind... I'll probably go out later in the week, and Tuesday nights are slow in pretty much every city. Thanks for the suggestions!
That's an idiotic thing to say. Those 'third world' countries would do well to show the initiative that the 'good old U.S' had!
I went to that site, but after the countdown to zero, I realized it was not the actual site. The link to the actual site was scripted, but it wasn't an HTML hot link (why for an astronomy site, I don't know).
So I went to that site, and still saw SFA, lol.
Oh well.
So I went to that site, and still saw SFA, lol.
Oh well.
Well if nothing else the food at Five Fishermen is good.Thanks, I'll keep those places in mind... I'll probably go out later in the week, and Tuesday nights are slow in pretty much every city. Thanks for the suggestions!
The USA and its taxpayers have no obligation to feed anyone elses population.
Not even the Soviet Union back in the day would've fed Africa, despite their system of wealth re-distribution which probably is more to whitewaterguy's liking.
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however they do feel obligated to have military bases occupying over 191 countries around the world
US Military Bases in foreign countries, are mainly located in Western Europe: 26 of them are in Germany, 8, in Great Britain, and 8 in Italy. There are nine military installations in Japan (Wikepedia).
In the last few years, in the context of the GWOT, the US haa built 14 new bases in and around the Persian Gulf.
It is also involved in construction and/or or reinforcement of 20 bases (106 structured units as a whole) in Iraq, with costs of the order of 1.1 billion dollars in that country alone (Varea, 2007) and the use of about ten bases in Central Asia.
The US has also undertaken continued negotiations with several countries to install, buy, enlarge or rent an addional number of military bases. The latter pertain inter alia to installations in Morocco, Algeria, Mali, Ghana, Brazil and Australia (See Nicholson, B., 2007), Poland, Czech Republic (Traynor, I., 2007), Ouzbekistan, Tadjikistan, Kirghizstan, Italy (Jucca, L., 2007) and France.
Washington has signed an agreement to build a military base in Djibouti (Manfredi, E., 2007). All these initiatives are a part of an overall plan to install a series of military bases geographically located in a West-East corridor extending from Colombia in South America, to North Africa, the Near East, Central Asia and as far as the Philippines (Johnson, C., 2004). The US bases in South American are related to the control and access to the extensive natural biological , mineral and water resources resources of the Amazon Basin.
So very true, they are only involved when there's something in it for themselves.
the ideals and vision of space exploration themselves are simplistic, delusional and irrelevant. to suggest the intentions of a megalomanical society can be equated with the pursuit of "science" is a far stretch. It's government funded science for the benefit of government, exactly as in the cold/war space race scenario. Ethical scientists are spending their time devoted to solving human issues here on the planet. I know quite a few Canadian Phd. dudes with physics degrees who are working in the U.S...Where? On military basis..bettering the cause of mankind....right
Science with a government/military/global control agenda is unethical science to say the very least.., Particularly when done in the name of space exploration, gimme a break. Our IQ's didnt land us on this planet and our IQ's quite clearly wont get us off it either. We are more likely to self destruct as a species before that day ever arrives. But, who amongst us who engage in any critical thinking still have faith in the clusterfuck known as the U.S.?? who's Koolaide are ya drinkin?
