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#26 to #21 - ilikeweed (08/07/2012) [-]

if there was an extinction scale meteor that destroyed earth and we were on the moon, then we'd be fucked too, smart one. think about it. the moon orbits the earth. the earth orbits around the suns. earth is obliterated. what the fuck happens to the moon?!

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#58 to #26 - jokeface (08/07/2012) [-]

Actually the moon could theoretically orbit the Sun, or get pulled into the gravitational pull of another planet, depending on the circumstances of the Earth's destruction and it's location relative to, say, Mars. But that's irrelevant anyway, because Earth is the only place in our solar system with the resources needed to support human life. If we built a base on the moon then we'd constantly have to keep it alive with things we get from Earth, like water and oxygen.

As I finished typing all that I realized I ended up reinforcing your comment. So I shall thumb you up.

#153 to #58 - nogphille ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

actually, an extinction scale meteor wouldn't necessarily destroy earth, it's highly likely extinction scale meteors have already collided with earth and it's still here?

also, terraforming would mean a sustainable environment, not relying on materials from earth...

#55 to #26 - N. Korean citizen (08/07/2012) [-]

Chance of something big enough to actually wipe out the rock is pretty slim, given how motherfucking old the rock is.

You'd have to leave Stevie Wonder in charge of the telescope to not see that coming.

#52 to #26 - trostell (08/07/2012) [-]

A meteor that could wipe out all terrestrial life on Earth would not destroy the planet. It wouldn't even need to be the size of moon to accomplish that. It would just need to be big enough to kick up a cloud of dust that blots out the sun. Three weeks in, no more plants. No plants, no food for herbivores. No food for herbivores, carnivores start killing eachother off for food. After they're dead, the fungi and bacteria starve as well, killing more forms of life on this planet, except those that live in the deep ocean where there is no sunlight. Ever.

Now, unless that meteor hit the moon first, then the Earth, the moon base would be totally fine, as Earth would still be there.

#294 to #26 - christhemushroom (08/08/2012) [-]

A meteor wiped out the dinosaurs, and the moon is still here.

#27 to #26 - lavitts (08/07/2012) [-]

More importantly, why is there a pop-up ad when I highlight your comment? Suspicious.

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#28 to #27 - ilikeweed (08/07/2012) [-]

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#539 to #21 - breakfastlunch (08/08/2012) [-]

And the Reapers.

#551 to #539 - lavitts (08/08/2012) [-]

I'm Commenter Lavitts and this is my favorite reply on the thread!

#552 to #551 - breakfastlunch (08/08/2012) [-]

Here, have this. I have far fewer Mass Effect reaction pics since I lost my reaction folder, but this will do nicely.

#558 to #552 - lavitts (08/08/2012) [-]

I love this.

#559 to #558 - breakfastlunch (08/08/2012) [-]

Shepard, I...

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#560 to #559 - lavitts (08/08/2012) [-]

Can it wait?

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#563 to #560 - breakfastlunch (08/08/2012) [-]

Why don't we have both?

#568 to #563 - lavitts (08/08/2012) [-]

By the enkindlers! That looks like MY Fem-Shep! I uh, I need a m-moment. oh yeah

#462 to #21 - dubzzzz (08/08/2012) [-]

It's the Covenant!

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#598 to #21 - cloudface (08/08/2012) [-]

#566 to #21 - milthyfoustache (08/08/2012) [-]

Smartfags is terraforming possible? Go.

#576 to #566 - lavitts (08/08/2012) [-]

Not yet. At least, not on a planned, planetwide scale. Technically, every change we make in our environment from large-scale deforestation to gardening is a kind of terraforming. However, something like making Mars hospitable for human life? Not in this century, I think. If someone thinks we're closer to it than that though, I'd love to hear it. Every step closer counts.

#248 to #21 - nathanielcockburn (08/08/2012) [-]

who needs space when you got swag
fuck our generation

#206 to #21 - aeternumvale (08/08/2012) [-]

The entire time I'm thinking but what about... and then you said "and the covenant" Damnit, you thought of everything.

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#250 - gfisbetter (08/08/2012) [+] (5 replies)

AMERICA

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#278 to #250 - ackbobthedead (08/08/2012) [-]

We pretty much had to.

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#262 to #250 - mrmiguel ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

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#251 to #250 - elitetroll (08/08/2012) [-]

FUCK YEAH}!

#506 to #250 - lordmoldywart (08/08/2012) [-]

MFW I find sport more interesting than space exploration

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#207 - solinvictus (08/08/2012) [+] (37 replies)

This is exactly why we haven't put a MAN on Mars. The "poor" people in this country want every cent spent on them so that they don't have to get out and get a job and pay taxes. My god, it is mankind's DESTINY to explore the stars and we can't even get a man out of our fucking gravity well because everyone wants the government to spend money on them. All the politicians have pet projects they don't have enough money for so they take money from the tax payers. All these ghetto assholes want their big fucking rims and their big screen tvs and buggies full of junk food. Here in my house we live well over the "poverty line" and we have a tv from the Nineties in our living room and we don't have a fridge full of shit to snack on all god damn day, yet we still have to pay for these lazy fucks to get fat off government subsidies! These people aren't fucking poor! I say get rid of fucking welfare and put all that money into NASA so we can actually advance our species like we should have been since we landed on the fucking Moon!
Anyway, sorry about the rant. Fucking useless assholes like this just infuriate me.

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#269 to #207 - durkadurka ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

You fucking get it.

The politicians are happy to oblige those people because they will keep being reelcted by those people. And thus you have a system where the same politicians keep holding office and the lazy bums on their couches keep getting their checks. We have more people on food stamps than ever before and it's no accident.

I believe Ben Franklin said it best when he said “I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

We are doing a disservice to the poor by making it easy to be poor. We need to stop giving them fish and give them fishing poles.

#289 to #269 - solinvictus (08/08/2012) [-]

Precisely my friend. Just shows how far back this issue goes. In fact, they were having this same problem all the way back to the Roman Republic. How little we have learned in 2000 years.

#290 to #289 - durkadurka ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

Likely we'll repeat history and rot from the inside like they did.

#297 to #290 - solinvictus (08/08/2012) [-]

Perhaps, but Rome still lasted 500 years after the fall of the Republic. Perhaps, even if our Republic falls, another generation may rekindle the flame, so to speak. In fact, Emperor Marcus Aurelius wanted to restore the republic and may very well have if he hadn't had died in Germania.

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#307 to #207 - skergex (08/08/2012) [-]

I'm not too educated on little details of politics or economics. But you seem like you know what the fuck you're talking about. Thumb for you.

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#266 to #207 - byobgraffpro (08/08/2012) [-]

word man, doesnt matter if youre foreign or not, everyone has a chance to do well in America, it's your own responsibility to figure out life. These poor fags want other people to pay for their mistakes, i say fuck em, if i turn out to be poor for some reason im not going to ask for hand outs from successful people, like it's my right to have their money, no, fuckin man up, stop having kids, stop buying so many drugs, get a job and be a part of society. Like fuckin seriously, it took me 3 weeks to find a job, it's not as hard as these lazy ass holes say it is, you just have to put forth the effort

#279 to #266 - solinvictus (08/08/2012) [-]

Personally, I believe in helping real poor people who are down on their luck through charity. But giving them money through the government is just subsidizing their poverty and keeping them in that state (which isn't real poverty). and what makes it worse is that Obama recently did away with a bill passed in the 90's that made people on welfare look for a job (pretend to anyway) in order to continue getting their welfare checks. They don't even have to pretend anymore.

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#229 to #207 - satyrn (08/08/2012) [-]

You.
Yes you.
Have a pair of sunglasses for being amazing.

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#219 to #207 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

sweet jesus im not the only one, i salute you sir

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#292 to #207 - heroicvenom (08/08/2012) [-]

finally, another human being that sees how useless the welfare system is.

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#231 to #207 - aserock (08/08/2012) [-]

You're now my hero...

#372 to #207 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

I have now read through your complete thread, and I have to say, you are one of the most intelligent and down to earth people I have seen before. I started reading simply because an opinion actually go thumbed up on here, and I can see why. Thank you for not being like the majority of our country and actually understanding how things work. I know how shitty our country is and it's refreshing to see someone so realistically minded.
The only thing I have left to say, VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!!!

#399 to #372 - solinvictus (08/08/2012) [-]

Oh, stop it you. I'm actually quite use to getting tons of red thumbs for my opinions so this is quite a surprise. Oh, and we have a wonderful country, we're just in a really shitty situation and we have a really shitty government trying to fix it.

#406 to #399 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

I would agree with that. It is time for us to do what our constitution says we are entitled to. When the government it broken it is our job to fix it. Why haven't we yet? Oh, because the second we try to we will be considered terrorists and be arrested for trying to do what the constitution allows us to. The new terrorism laws will stop us from ever being able to. They would stop us from even getting a trial in many cases and impede on our direct rights. How can our government put laws in place that completely take away what our country was founded on?

#424 to #406 - solinvictus (08/08/2012) [-]

Well, we'll see how this next election turns out. Personally I think Romney will do a good job (He damn well better do a good job). He wasn't my first choice, but he is a good business man, and that is what our economy needs. If Obama wins? Well, "The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it." A little quote from Cicero that I found. :)

#440 to #424 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

Great quote. At this point, I think Romney is just the lesser of two evils. However, I feel like no matter who makes it into office something more drastic will have to happen. It isn't something I necessarily want to see, but I don't see our government getting fixed without a bit of revolution. We have spent the past 10, nearly 11 years revolutionizing countries from the middle east, yet we are not doing anything here. We need to fix what is happening and worry about our own country. I agree that things like welfare need to leave, but we also need a complete overhaul of our government. It is time for this "wonderful" country of ours to return to its former glory and reclaim the ideals we were founded on, not the ideals that have been manipulated to what they are today. It is time for change and the time for action is coming ever nearer to us. It is time for something to happen. I will give anyone a chance. Since Obama has blown that chance, I will give Romney a chance this next time around, assuming he manages to beat out el presidente, which doesn't seem too far fetched. However, if he cannot do anything to fix it, I feel like we need to organize as a country and actually do something about it. We need to make our country somewhere that is seen as a refuge and wonderful place to live, not just for our citizens, but in the eyes of the world also. We have spent too many years being hated by the world, it is time to become a glorious nation again. We have gone from truly great leaders to the scum we call the government today. It just isn't right. I don't want to live in a country that is consistently going down the toilet and waving to the rest of the world on the way down. It is as if we don't even care enough to fix our country. The time for change is among us.

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#239 to #207 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

i bet people still want the health care bill after reading this. can someone explain to me that health care bill btw.

#243 to #239 - solinvictus (08/08/2012) [-]

Dude, I don't even know where the hell to start on that monstrosity.

#249 to #243 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

is it good or bad?

#254 to #249 - solinvictus (08/08/2012) [-]

Bad. Very very bad.

#247 to #243 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

what do you mean by that?

#253 to #247 - solinvictus (08/08/2012) [-]

Well, for one, the lawmakers who passed it didn't even have enough time to read through the whole thing. According to Nancy Pelosi, "We have to pass it before we can find out what is in it," like its a fucking xmas present or something. The you have the issues of cost, which it is going to cost billions more than they said it would, as if we aren't in enough debt. In the end, its going to force everyone onto a single payer system with shitty health care. That's only the tip of the iceberg. Another thing, as a side note, the bill transferred control of FAFSA (which pretty much controls every student loan that is out there) over to the federal government. What that has to do with healthcare is fucking beyond me. There is tons more wrong with this bill that it would take hours for me to gather the info and explain it all.

#263 to #253 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

people are pretty dumb then for saying, "yah free health care." dumb shits. like the government is gonna pull that free health care right out of their ass. how has no one done anything about it yet? the U.S. is gonna die, i swear.

#268 to #263 - solinvictus (08/08/2012) [-]

Just like the saying goes, "There's no such thing as a free lunch." someone is footing the bill somewhere down the line. Worst of all, the Supreme Court ruled it constitutional, and the vote hinged on a so called "conservative" justice (Justice Roberts) and he voted for the damn thing. >:(

#280 to #268 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

should we just kill ourselves now? better yet let's just go do whatever at this point since the country is pretty much downhill right now. not like it matters anyway. i'm being serious btw. like seriously. what's the point of doing anything anymore. some dumbass gets his dumbass way and everyone dies because of that stupid shit. let's just go rob a bank already. damn

#291 to #280 - solinvictus (08/08/2012) [-]

Oh no, never give up. That is exactly what they want you to do, to roll over and let them kick you. And you don't want to go about committing crimes just because it seems hopeless. By doing so you would yield the moral high ground. No, there WILL be an America after all this. What ever that future America is is up to us to decide. So never give up.

#298 to #291 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

sorry to say but i think the stupid virus has reached stage IV. at this point I really do think it's time for us to just wait for doom. :(

#306 to #298 - solinvictus (08/08/2012) [-]

Haha, yeah well people have always been stupid. The problem is that we are now electing too many of them into office. But I think everything just hinges on this next election. I can wait another 3 months.

#276 to #268 - durkadurka ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

Perhaps what's worst of all is that the ruling essentially said it is okay for the government to tax us for inaction.

#273 to #263 - durkadurka ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

Healthcare is NEVER free. You pay for it some way, whether through taxes or some other means.

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#242 to #207 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

You may not have money, but you've just won a lot of internet dwellers's respect

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#555 to #207 - srskate ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

no, we haven't put a man on mars because its hard as fuck!

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#308 to #207 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

who the hell is thumbing these guys? did funnyjunk become some knid of conservative den? go die religiofags

#319 to #308 - solinvictus (08/08/2012) [-]

Actually I'm not religious at all. But personally, I know a great deal of religious people who are much more intelligent than you. And they respect life enough not to go about telling people to die on the internet. Dumkopf.

#466 to #308 - dubzzzz (08/08/2012) [-]

You're a bloody idiot. Just saying.

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#139 - badasstoaster (08/08/2012) [+] (4 replies)

Thank you for outlining everything OP. I don't have my giant ass reading glasses with me.

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#143 to #139 - ryderjamesbudde (08/08/2012) [-]

Yeah, I forgot my fucking electron microscope again. I don't know what I was going to do without it.

#154 to #139 - mydogizmexican (08/08/2012) [-]

not only that, but its a repost

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#142 to #139 - sketchE ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

quit being a twat

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#151 to #142 - demcomments ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

**demcomments rolled a random image posted in comment #2577 at MLP Friendly Board **

Quit being a queer. That's honestly some funny shit right there.

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#439 - trollolololgabe (08/08/2012) [+] (11 replies)

James is such an idiot. NASA is just trying to find Prothean Ruins!!

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#472 to #439 - obobsaget (08/08/2012) [-]

Yes

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#442 to #439 - BroadSword ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

I love you

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#457 to #442 - redneckhokage (08/08/2012) [-]

a mass effect comment and you reply with halo....

#491 to #457 - BroadSword ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

Sorry I read it wrong, any slight hint or implication of Halo 4 and I jizz

#495 to #491 - redneckhokage (08/08/2012) [-]

dont worry me too

#497 to #495 - BroadSword ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

I have a feeling this game will be a classic just like halo 3. I can tell my above comment is going to get rained down by red thumbs...

#490 to #442 - shallowloqi (08/08/2012) [-]

Dammit man. Wrong game! Wrong game!

#505 to #490 - BroadSword ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

I read prothean as promethean, obvious sign that its late and I should get off, but ill stand the cast of the di, that way people can actually see the full story because im always left wondering what the deleted comment was when someone deletes one

#463 to #442 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

Prothean, not Promethean.

#499 to #439 - drmrniceguy (08/08/2012) [-]

I never really liked James either!

>MFW all I can hear is Freddy from Scooby Doo

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#537 - AztecJew ONLINE (08/08/2012) [+] (5 replies)

I would liquidate every fast food chain and major business if it meant NASA or any space program would have complete freedom and access to resources to do the best research and projects possible. We should globally strive to expand beyond just what lies before us, there is an insurmountable expanse of space and possibilities out there and we are content with arguing and waging war over one planet. We should explore, learn, and grow, instead of sitting around complaining about how many theoretical numbers on a computer went away when we sent a rover to mars. Money is only worth as much as we decide and/or accept it to be, it's a bartering system. Nothing more.

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#564 to #537 - theswagmobile (08/08/2012) [-]

Sir, out of all due respect,

we need to put all our money, capital, and resources into the defense against and research in defense against and avoiding the biggest known ~~problem~~ threat we have now:

BEARS.

#567 to #564 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

Muahahahaha
What are you gunna do when I put BULLET PROOF VESTS on them?

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#570 to #567 - krakarot (08/08/2012) [-]

What was that about bullet proof?

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#569 to #567 - tornwingsofangels (08/08/2012) [-]

call in this guy

#670 to #564 - AztecJew ONLINE (08/09/2012) [-]

I was a fool…we're defenseless now!

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#42 - galgawine (08/07/2012) [+] (2 replies)

the facebook op, not op op. op op is alright.

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#66 to #42 - eonsmashface (08/07/2012) [-]

what if op op IS facebook op? then op op would be TWICE the fag :p

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#405 - kuree (08/08/2012) [-]

rover on mars?

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#305 - mahavir (08/08/2012) [+] (42 replies)

You will know RAGE when you read this!!

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#356 to #305 - imangryman (08/08/2012) [-]

Y-You-You know what, I don't even care anymore. The stupid has permanently burned me.

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#326 to #305 - epicevillink (08/08/2012) [-]

my god i fucking hate my generation.

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#323 to #305 - drego (08/08/2012) [-]

I swear to god I wanted to red thumb this but then i realized this wasn't your fault :( I'm dead serious this is where I just feel depressed about the crap minded youth of today

(this is my expression upon reading this post)

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#338 to #323 - outsidethebox (08/08/2012) [-]

I red thumbed it and the image. They are not funny. If I want to see people tell me agreeable when funny should be happening things I'll watch Lewis Black, the funny junk community is at fault for the lack of funny by rewarding this behavior. Tell jokes, don't make me mad.

#395 to #338 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

red thumbed you because i don't want a post to agree with i want funny. So back to your point...

#347 to #338 - drego (08/08/2012) [-]

you do have a point on that :L

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#336 to #305 - ningenpoop (08/08/2012) [-]

are you fucking kidding me

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#382 to #305 - russianbro (08/08/2012) [-]

i couldnt read all of it my jimmies couldnt take it anymore

you know this is the kinda shit that makes me want to become a serial killer

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#327 to #305 - funnyfox (08/08/2012) [-]

Motherfucker...

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#414 to #305 - angelodlt (08/08/2012) [-]

Why didnt i heed your warning WHY OH god my Jimmies Hit maximum Rustle

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#340 to #305 - sillyb (08/08/2012) [-]

Ugh, the circle jerk....

#426 to #305 - Tyranitar (08/08/2012) [-]

I look forward to having my Big Macs made by those bitches.

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#501 to #305 - bateking ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

By the Gods that shit was dumb

#433 to #305 - kumquatchaos **User deleted account** (08/08/2012) [-]

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT
RRAAAAARRRGGHHHHH

#427 to #305 - fitchy (08/08/2012) [-]

i.....couldn't......get....through.....it...

#329 to #305 - cookiedude (08/08/2012) [-]

wtf they keep going on without saying anything useful, and the original responder doesn't even comment again. Wtf?

#354 to #305 - Kabutops (08/08/2012) [-]

omg, post this on 4chan. i cant stand seeing idiots like these two running their mouths thinking they're so smart

#330 to #305 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

I couldn't keep reading it. My brain was hurting from stupidity and douchebagery

#325 to #305 - drego (08/08/2012) [-]

couldn't read all the way through either. thought i'd lose too many brain cells

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#333 to #305 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

please explain why I should be mad.

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#214 - comentator (08/08/2012) [+] (5 replies)

NASA and the other scientifical institutions worldwide are trying to make the people's life easier. You have to thank NASA for having television, cell phones, being able to talk across the Atlanic and Pacific via phones, internet and many other things. Their funding should actually be increased, not lowered. You should lower the funding for the other useless things. And with that stance of yours, you'll always ask why the ancient Greeks were the most advanced civilization in European history.

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#216 to #214 - comentator (08/08/2012) [-]

Whoops, wrong picture.

#246 to #216 - goochmaster (08/08/2012) [-]

**goochmaster rolls 85** well then, allow me

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**chinchillin rolls 91** here's that missing roll

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#85 - ragingbrony (08/08/2012) [-]

To the person who made the original picture.

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#404 - dcrazy (08/08/2012) [+] (8 replies)

Why cant we all just fucking enjoy the pure fact that together as a race that we have done something so amazing as landing on mars, something that is for the most part a mystery to us and could lead to countless wonders. Cant we just enjoy that? Instead of bickering like a bunch of penny pinching ass hats.

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#417 to #404 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [-]

for a few hours the night it happenned, I just sat in my computer chair, amazed.

We launched a robot 300 million miles through space and landed on the surface of mars.
Perfectly.

fuck i love science.

#434 to #417 - therealbojack (08/08/2012) [-]

We've also done it three times, already.

#444 to #434 - rantansoop (08/08/2012) [-]

3 for 3 fuck yeah merica.

#443 to #434 - dcrazy (08/08/2012) [-]

Yes, because we know everything about something after we explore it a couple of times. That kind of thought process is like saying ok well ill read the first page of this book and put it down cause I think I know how its going to end. We should strive to explore and look at all the wonders around us and learn from our experiences, even if its nothing! At least then we would know its nothing and isn't that the greatest thing about life, trying to figure out the unknown?

#451 to #443 - therealbojack (08/08/2012) [-]

Actually, I didn't say anything like what you implied. In fact, I was ecstatic to hear about the successful landing and I would personally give anything in the world to reallocate the country's resources toward technological advancement, exploration, and further understanding of our solar system. I was also distressed by the fact that I heard virtually no coverage from any news or media outlets covering the landing, itself. It flew extremely under the radar, while the Olympics (an event that has occurred every four years for literally hundreds of years) continued to dominate everyone's attention, for whatever reason. On the other hand, however, I think that people that are nothing but flabbergasted at the fact that we have performed such an amazing feat as landing a rover on another planet (when we have actually had the same thing happen at least three times, in the past) seem to just be "jumping on the bandwagon" (however under the radar that bandwagon may be...) of the Curiosity landing, without actually knowing a lot of the key facts about it. I merely got the impression that Mr. Anon up there was one of these uninformed "Bandwagoners", and felt that I should share a bit of information about the subject matter. Sorry that I wasn't more clear.

#459 to #451 - dcrazy (08/08/2012) [-]

I also apologize I thought your statement was implying that it was a pointless effort to go again since we have in the past. As for the anon I'm always against bandwagon hate since we all don't know everything and because something that was maybe pointless to you before could really interested you know, and maybe you just haven't found that out until well now.... P.S sorry if my sentences ramble or jump around or anything like that its really late where i'm at

#469 to #443 - novabird ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

the best policy is to keep learning about a subject once you're aware of it, theres no such thing as knowing everything no matter how much you've learned, theres always more to learn if you keep looking.

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#81 - morbidskyrim (08/08/2012) [+] (14 replies)

I do find it hilarious that people say putting a rover on Mars is a complete waste of $2.5 billion while, as this person said, spends over a trillion dollars a year right now on its military. Why spend money expanding the horizons and knowledge of humanity when we can stay here on Earth and brutally murder each other, right?

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#126 to #81 - krakarot (08/08/2012) [-]

I've said it before, I'll say it again. Let's put all our money into killing eachother IN space.

#128 to #126 - pariahlol (08/08/2012) [-]

it's much more exciting that way

#130 to #126 - deliciousdee ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

Is that freelancer??

#132 to #130 - krakarot (08/08/2012) [-]

Fuck if I know, I just googled space battle and clicked on what looked good.

#129 to #81 - pariahlol (08/08/2012) [-]

I agree but I also disagree. Some of the most important discoveries in history have been pressured into existence by war. War tends to be a driving force when it comes to technological advancement. While it does suck that we are killing each other, eventually war will be pioneering space as well. It's just that early phase where we don't know enough to even have war up there. But once space travel becomes legit, war will speed up the space race for sure. Still not saying it's a good thing though

#84 to #81 - Sethorein ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

military keeps us safe so we can invest in expanding our horizons instead of fearing for our lives... :\

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#86 to #84 - morbidskyrim (08/08/2012) [-]

I simply meant that if humanity were not so violent, instead of needing to defend ourselves, we could advance much more quickly. Of course, like that's ever going to happen.

#99 to #86 - Sethorein ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

well yeah because we are always out for ourselves before the community and our immediate community before the global community which causes lots of problems when for the global community to prosper we've got to sacrifice some of the good that our local community has...

#101 to #84 - whatugawkinat (08/08/2012) [-]

Not the US military :P

#102 to #101 - Sethorein ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

Not sure if I should give a serious reply or not o_o

#108 to #102 - whatugawkinat (08/08/2012) [-]

Twas joking, but yeah...our military as of now, for the most part isn't exactly keeping us safe and doing any long-term good.

#110 to #108 - Sethorein ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

yeah it is... I mean logically we're fighting a war overseas... but if we had no military, do you think that suddenly the Middle East would be unfucked up? There's like 80 years of shit for them to hate the West for... and I'm sure if we didn't shove our metaphorical cock down their throats they'd be trying to pull shit in America all the time :\

#112 to #110 - whatugawkinat (08/08/2012) [-]

I'm not denying any nations need for military defense, but I just hate how our troops are dying for greed rather than freedom :/

#115 to #112 - Sethorein ONLINE (08/08/2012) [-]

Why not both? See... you can't start a military conflict for greed... people will see right through it. Almost every modern war is fought for some rights or freedoms or whatever then as the war progresses it comes out that MAYBE some weapons manufacturers are making big bucks, and PERHAPS some ALLEGED oil assets were "acquired"...

At the end of the day... it takes 7 billion to make the world... we can't all be just and moral... but let's at least pretend really well so the kids have someone to look up to...

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#197 - seveer (08/08/2012) [-]

NASA actually makes money on patents and other discoveries. Velcro, Teflon, etc.

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#117 - mishamisha (08/08/2012) [-]

Apply water to burn

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#487 - N. Korean citizen (08/08/2012) [+] (2 replies)

>"Us poor people"
>Has a computer with internet service

#489 to #487 - illegalartist (08/08/2012) [-]

everyone practically has internet service and many who dont go to the library. i know i did

#531 to #489 - furballx (08/08/2012) [-]

yeah but when i think of poor people i think a) hobos b) niggers neither of which are allowed/accepted into libraries

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#260 - thornberry (08/08/2012) [+] (2 replies)

AMERICA!

#271 to #260 - shunkahaxD (08/08/2012) [-]

FUCK YEAH!