Not sure what that makes me. Our answer to the pious churchman, I guess, science being a new religion and all.
What was that old quote? Something about any sufficiently advanced technology being magic? heh.
Scientists working on basic research actually produce something, which puts them ahead of the Department of Homeland Security. They also spend a lot of time doing it. This is in contrast to the INS, where 73% of the employees have been on a coffee break since 1995, or the Department of Transportation, which randomly shuts down roads and airports just to see if they still remember how to do it.
*snicker* That is all.
Dan, I'm really digging this populist streak in your writing. Too often, the public perception is that scientific research is either a) the (very nearly) immediate answer to everything, so quit worrying about exercise and good diet, or b) totally disconnected from anything any regular person would care about. Except for how to blow stuff up, which Bush seems to believe is the main function of the scientific community.
Well, I guess he also thinks it's useful to lend weight to his religious politics, since he's enacted absurd measures to only hire high-level scientists who agree with him. Which unfortunately only emasculates the credibility of American scientists. Grrrr.
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What was that old quote? Something about any sufficiently advanced technology being magic? heh.
Scientists working on basic research actually produce something, which puts them ahead of the Department of Homeland Security. They also spend a lot of time doing it. This is in contrast to the INS, where 73% of the employees have been on a coffee break since 1995, or the Department of Transportation, which randomly shuts down roads and airports just to see if they still remember how to do it.
*snicker* That is all.
Dan, I'm really digging this populist streak in your writing. Too often, the public perception is that scientific research is either a) the (very nearly) immediate answer to everything, so quit worrying about exercise and good diet, or b) totally disconnected from anything any regular person would care about. Except for how to blow stuff up, which Bush seems to believe is the main function of the scientific community.
Well, I guess he also thinks it's useful to lend weight to his religious politics, since he's enacted absurd measures to only hire high-level scientists who agree with him. Which unfortunately only emasculates the credibility of American scientists. Grrrr.