How the Right-Wing War on Science Has Made Americans Dumber at Every Level

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

i'd rather have both funding and conducting research, i certainly wouldn't want to have just one or the other.

There is only two things that really advance mankind........ Private industry that is driven by greed to produce wonderful new things--Light Bulbs, Automobiles(Henry ford figured out how to do it cheaper and faster something the govt will never do)

The other thing that drives technology is war or threat of war... Supersonic flight, space exploration, the internet, Battlefield medicine , etc etc.

Greed and war baby... They innovate.

Name one peace driven govt agency that devolved #######.

Oh and I forgot sex...

Thank you Pfizer!!!!!!!!!!

Edited April 10, 2013 by The Nature Boy

[decocker 7,198]

Name one peace driven govt agency that devolved #######.

euhm.

and you were calling me extremist earlier?

Edited April 10, 2013 by val erie

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

euhm.

and you were calling me extremist earlier?

well give me your non DOD or Private agency tech advancement list. Don't say Nasa that was all about the military

[decocker 7,198]

well give me your non DOD or Private agency tech advancement list. Don't say Nasa that was all about the military

get your own >non dod or private agency tech advancement list>. i don't even know what that means. i am not a scientist, unlike yourself..

[Póg mo 1,749]

There is only two things that really advance mankind........ Private industry that is driven by greed to produce wonderful new things--Light Bulbs, Automobiles(Henry ford figured out how to do it cheaper and faster something the govt will never do)

The other thing that drives technology is war or threat of war... Supersonic flight, space exploration, the internet, Battlefield medicine , etc etc.

Greed and war baby... They innovate.

Name one peace driven govt agency that devolved #######.

Oh and I forgot sex...

Thank you Pfizer!!!!!!!!!!

The interweb?

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

get your own >non dod or private agency tech advancement list>. i don't even know what that means. i am not a scientist, unlike yourself..

DOD===Department of Defense.

The interweb?

Sorry DOD

[decocker 7,198]

DOD===Department of Defense.

yeah, i got that part.

[mota bhai 2,675]

the internet exists because of the threat of nuclear annihilation.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

yeah, i got that part.

So what is it that has you bewildered ?

[Darnell 8,479]

get your own >non dod or private agency tech advancement list>. i don't even know what that means. i am not a scientist, unlike yourself..

Is you over 40 years of age, a USCitizen by birth, lived (mostly) in USA since birth?

You should know that stuff, regardless of yer scientific prowess or lack thereof.

That stuff has been common knowledge since Mr. Gore had his show-down, hit all the news-media - the backgrounders were published in laymen's terms.

Edited April 10, 2013 by Darnell

[Póg mo 1,749]

Okay, how about the World Wide Web? It was developed by scientists in Europe, as a means to share data and results quickly when they weren't physically in the same place. War, medicine or even space exploration weren't really a factor in its development.

[Darnell 8,479]

How about it ? as is, it wasn't a network - it was a 'thing' that ran on top of, and through, a network.

Edited April 10, 2013 by Darnell

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Okay, how about the World Wide Web? It was developed by scientists in Europe, as a means to share data and results quickly when they weren't physically in the same place. War, medicine or even space exploration weren't really a factor in its development.

The WWW was developed by scientist in Europe.???? Hardly

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

How about it ? as is, it wasn't a network - it was a 'thing' that ran on top of, and through, a network.

Hpert text was started by U ar a peeing. Mosiac which was actually the birth of the WWW was developed in the U.S. Of course none of it possible had it not been for Darpa net developed by the ??? DOD

I was actually on the "internet" before the WWW or Web Browser were available

Anyone remember Archie, Veronica, Usenet etc.....

[chaine1 116]

There is only two things that really advance mankind........ Private industry that is driven by greed to produce wonderful new things--Light Bulbs, Automobiles(Henry ford figured out how to do it cheaper and faster something the govt will never do)

The other thing that drives technology is war or threat of war... Supersonic flight, space exploration, the internet, Battlefield medicine , etc etc.

Greed and war baby... They innovate.

Science and technological innovation are not the same thing. Technological innovation can result from science, but that can take years and years. The discovery of penicillin is good example of 'boring and stupid scientific work' leading to a medical revolution.

govt agency that devolved #######

I haven't worked for a government agency, but I might hypothesize that government agencies are pretty good at passing ####### around.

Edited April 10, 2013 by chaine1