Stop the Silly Stuff

NASA is now taking steps to protect astronauts further after finding a cut in one of the gloves of the last space shuttle mission.

That's not what I'm writing here about though. Again I have to ask--do you really think all this space travel is necessary? The last trip was to repair space station stuff.

Okay, maybe the space station is a good thing, but really what do we need that massive billion dollar hunk of junk in the sky for? Traveling further into space? It's like a rest-stop gas station in the astro superhighway. Where the heck are we going? All these years and there still isn't another habitable planet to be found. Is there one? Maybe a trillion light years away... maybe a little closer, around the next bend... maybe not at all. Even if they find one. What are the chances it is enough like earth that moving there wouldn't take centuries upon themselves? Why go somewhere else when we can't even control our lives down here on the planet we have? We'd be as guilty as the 'aliens' in the movie 'Independance Day'. Kill a planet and move on.

Now I'm no real 'Greenpeacer'. That's not what I'm writing about either.

Technology is great. All that metal in the sky that keeps our cell phones buzzing, and our computers connected, and our televisions blaring out so many channels we can't choose which drivel we don't want to see tonight instead of the wonderful 2,5, 7, 9 and UHF that we had as baby booming kids of the 50's, 60's, 70's, and such. That's great.

Perhaps I should be singing the praises of NASA and scientists the world over. Believe me I would if they'd stop concentrating on stuff we don't need and spending money supposedly the economy doesn't have. Can you imagine how nicely we could all live if the governement equally doled out the amount of money they spend on the space program, not to mention wars we don't really belong in that aren't about us in the first place, silly grants that do not concern themselves with human illness, or conditions such as that... if they gave us all an equal share of the trillions upon trillions of dollars they spend on that stuff every year we'd have no homeless problems in the US, we'd all have plenty of money to spend on just everyday necessities... Thomas Edison invented hundreds of things that we still use today. We owe him a great debt, but he never collected a single 'grant' cent. He did it all in his garage. Most inventors (scientists) still would but not they don't have to, they can do it in safe Universities, or government agencies and get paid tens of thousands of dollars a year for it. Thomas Jefferson was a great inventor too...I really doubt he hit the government up for his expenses though.

...heck, don't even give it to us, just stop taking it from us. Stop taking income tax from us and they wouldn't have so much money to throw away on silly stuff.