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During a hearing of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Tuesday, Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher managed to baffle and amaze when he asked about life on Mars.
[...] "You have indicated that Mars had a, was totally different thousands of years ago," the California congressman said, addressing a panel of space science experts.
"Is it possible that there was a civilization on Mars thousands of years ago?".
[...] Kenneth Farley — NASA Mars 2020 rover project scientist — had to start off his answer by correcting Rohrabacher's question.
"So, the evidence is that Mars was different billions of years ago, not thousands of years ago," Farley said.
[...] "Would you rule that out? That — see, there are some people — well, anyway," Rohrabacher said.
Farley answered: "I would say that is extremely unlikely."
Source: Mashable
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday July 22 2017, @01:36PM (2 children)
What emerging issue? I see nothing here that hasn't been kicking around for thousands of years aside from the pace of technological innovation and even that has slowed down (IMHO) in recent years (too many people more interested in getting funding than in doing science/engineering) though maybe the developing world will heat it up once again.
Sounds like you might need some more separation either short or long term from the things giving you bad vibes. The world will always be imperfect as will the people in it. We simply don't have to care about things we can't do anything about. And one way to avoid that is to isolate for a time from these things.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Lagg on Saturday July 22 2017, @02:10PM (1 child)
Well you kind of said the emerging issue in your march of tech comment. Computers are not old by any definition let alone the internet. Don't take it lightly, seriously. When's that ever went well in the history of disruptive tech?
and yes you're 200% correct in telling me I need to break off. But the absurd thing is I've been trying. There's even a void in my posting history here to vouch for the extent of disconnecting I did which was damn near emergency-only-contact mode. Everything from mail down to soylent-like sites I tab to throughout the day. I don't consume this stuff obsessively. To give you an idea I deleted my twitter account in pretty much genuine disgust. I don't really know how else to describe the overall feeling besides that disconnecting doesn't get rid of it, even if i didn't have to hear depressing stuff in real life. But please believe me when I say it's not for lack of effort.
This is why I insist it's a mistake to pass off this stuff as just another round of politics. Maybe my highly selective exposure to videos of any kind (mostly due to cringe, partly cause transcripts are easier) and general restriction to finding links to hop from for further research due to no cable TV may have affected this in some way? Like there's no mystery with my view of this administration. I see Trump's words like a guy who hasn't seen any of the campaign ads and crap would. Because that's mostly the case unless it's a video I need to see and there is no text. We also have the first president who has 1 degree of separation between me and him sitting on the toilet at 0400 with his iphone. When's that happened before? When has there even been a president that did the equivalent of printing thousands of copies of his bathroom musings and throwing them out the window every morning?
Oh and so as to not appear to be a raging dingleberry: Lack of TV is not humblebrag or superiority. It simply reduced my bill by 45% or so and I can live without it. Pure monetary reasons.
In any case, still have to say there's something going on. People acknowledged what was going on when TV happened alongside the Nixon/Kennedy debate. We'll acknowledge this when we know what it is. Or fall behind.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday July 23 2017, @06:39AM
You're another one who can sense the loose ends of the timeline flapping in the breeze, then...I have a tendency to get pretty worked up too, and your "bad vibe poisoning" is a prime example of why.
There's a difference, though, between apathy and realizing that you cannot fight the tide of history. We're locked into this spiral for another cycle; another generation has been lost. Go to ground and just try to survive, doing small good deeds for those you come across as you can. We've long since, as a nation, hit critical mass of evil, and there is nothing we can do about it. They won (for now).
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...