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Taxes Filed And The World Gets Stupider.
Apr. 16th, 2012 07:09 pmTax season is always stressful, but I've finished a day early. That's always such a relief, and now I've got a million other things to start on.
I ran into some internet boneheads that were trying to claim that the NASA manned missions never produced any significant technological advancements. One guy insisted there were no developments at all, and when I brought up the research and development of lithium batteries, a second guy countered that "NASA didn't invent lithium batteries", and then when I posted a link, a third tried to explain that a $50 million dollar development contract that was mentioned, was simply to supply batteries! As if someone in a warehouse threw some batteries in a box and sent them to be plugged into the space shuttle.
Has anybody seen the movie Idiocracy, where society gets progressively stupider? It has started, here on the internet.
I ran into some internet boneheads that were trying to claim that the NASA manned missions never produced any significant technological advancements. One guy insisted there were no developments at all, and when I brought up the research and development of lithium batteries, a second guy countered that "NASA didn't invent lithium batteries", and then when I posted a link, a third tried to explain that a $50 million dollar development contract that was mentioned, was simply to supply batteries! As if someone in a warehouse threw some batteries in a box and sent them to be plugged into the space shuttle.
Has anybody seen the movie Idiocracy, where society gets progressively stupider? It has started, here on the internet.
