ARRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!
I am posting this at the NY Times site as well
A Dead End? A Failed Mission?
Darwin Lives!!
And the proof is in Paul Krugman. I am so utterly disgusted with the small minded and short sighted comment made here by this guy.
All I can say, is that it's a very good thing that we were not relying on the likes of Paul to advance this world in any way..... at any time .........EVER.
Unfortunately, the world is filled with too many of his type. Fortunately, Darwin was right, and the slower dumber ones eventually die out. After reading his comment today it is clear which side of the evolutionary scale Paul occupies..
RIP Paul..you dumb sheep.
"People are a nuisance"??? Only some people Paul.
I suspect Mister Krugman would have been sitting fat assed in some cave, while some forward thinking Neanderthal was out gambling his life on trying to figure out how to kill that "big meat with big teeth", so his tribe, (including Paul) could survive the winter. How did he do this? He pushed his limits...Human limits.
I suspect Paul would have been one of those sitting fat assed in Europe waiting for the "adventurers" to come back from the "New World" with new opportunities (for Paul) to reap profit and benefit from. How did they do this? Humans pushed their limits...Humans.
I suspect that Paul would have been sitting fat assed in Virginia on a plantation waiting to see what new things those crazy pioneers traveling out to the west might bring back (for Paul) to capitalize on. How did they do this? Humans pushed the limits...Humans.
I suspect that Paul was sitting fat assed watching TV, while some guys were pushing the envelope in computers...computers that Paul would no doubt be using for profit soon. How did they do this? Humans pushed the limits...Humans.
In fact, I can guarantee that Paul and those like him were exactly the type to be sitting fat assed waiting..waiting..waiting till somebody else.... our earliest ancestors...our very first EXPLORERS, crawled from the muck and persevered till they could stand upright...then and only then would the Paul's of the world wade to shore to see what had been made safe for them.
Since then, millions of pioneers, explorers, scientists, engineers, test pilots, soldiers, doctors, astronauts and everyday people have devoted and yes even given their lives to pushing the physical, mental, and mechanical limits of what we know today.
WHY did they do this? Because humans push the limits...Humans.
"The shuttle is an unglamorous bust" Paul???
Given the distance and time AND a calculator, I doubt you could even figure a simple average rate of speed for this launch. But just for fun, how's about you calculate the PE q-planes values the minimum primary air-flow and thrust calibrations for the allowable psi ballistic verticle stress loading on the trailing edge of the airleron of the tail stabilizer at variable v1 of 3900 fps/s, at a launch pad weight of 4.5 million lbs. minus 15.674 seconds of maximun launch-to-orbit boost at a maximum of 104 percent of rated power level, with each engine developing 2,174,286 Newtons of thrust, at sea level, at 56 degrees celsius, with a 15 mile an hour NNW wind, using the 51.6 degree inclination low orbit payload launch modality....can you do that Paulie?????
You should SHUT UP!
This Space Shuttle, is the culmination of 100 years of science, math, experimentation and the blood sweat and tears of uncountable human lives. It is so unbelievably complex, that you could not even begin to concieve of the math, technology and methodology necessary to design something as sub minor and peripheral as the anti static coating that is used on the platform of the giant tractor that carries the craft out of the hanger.
You should SHUT UP!
Better yet, why don't you take another crack at programming the VCR. That way you can sit comfortably in your dream world and watch episodes of Firefly while evolution does it's work and gets rid of you by giving you a brain aneurysm filled with your own arrogance.
Have you become so stupid and lazy Paul that you have lost sight of just how we have gotten to where we are? How we know what we know in this world? Do machines ultimately test the limits of cars, planes, vaccines, surgical techniques or of human endurance and capacity? Do machines question, reason, ad lib based on current conditions or analyze based on parameters unknown at the time of programming? Can machines do more than they are programmed to do..of course not..but humans can and do. Plus, machines don't explore, humans do.
And something else...The machine has not been made that can stand at the edge of the world and glory at the wonder of it all...And that is the most wonderous thing of all...the most inspiring, the most human thing of all.
So Paul, you stay sitting on your brain. It appears to be what you are good at. If YOU do not want to go, great. You would probably fall down and break a leg and be useless anyway. Don't however get in the way of those who seek to move the human race forward.
You Paul, certainly do not belong on the list of humans that aspire to greater things. You belittle and dishonour the memories of those that HAVE sacrificed. In fact you do not really even deserve the right to take advantage of the millions of gains made by those that have made those sacrifices. It's ok though. Your arteries are hardening faster than the HUMAN who is EXPLORING new science to fix that particular malady can work, and you will soon be gone.
You will be forgotten with all the other sheep that said that we were the center of the universe, that the world was flat, that man was not meant to fly, that a human organ could not be transplanted from one body to another, that man would never walk on the moon, and that we should wait to explore the universe.
It is humans that go out to explore, humans that will travel faster than light, humans that will walk on Mars and Pluto and Alpha Centauri and wherever else we can dream to go..........Humans.
Humans push the limits...Humans.
Posted by Jack at February 05, 2003 03:49 PM