Comments on: How to get NASA funded http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/31/how-to-get-nasa-funded/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:43:20 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dan http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/31/how-to-get-nasa-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-191874 Dan Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:03:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/31/how-to-get-nasa-funded/#comment-191874 has no comedy nerd posted this yet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI [from Mr. Show with Bob and David c.1997] has no comedy nerd posted this yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI
[from Mr. Show with Bob and David c.1997]

]]> By: Doug http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/31/how-to-get-nasa-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-187834 Doug Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:24:14 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/31/how-to-get-nasa-funded/#comment-187834 I recall a good answer by a NASA scientist about a cover-up concerning aliens. It was to the effect that if we REALLY had aliens in Area 51 or whatever, we'd shout it from the rooftops. Do you have any idea the funding we would get, he said? It would make Apollo look like pocket change. Anybody with a Ph. D. in physics or astronomy would have money thrown at them by the bushel basket! Cover it up? Idiotic. Besides, the only way 3 scientists can keep a secret is if all three are dead; and they have probably published it anyway! I recall a good answer by a NASA scientist about a cover-up concerning aliens. It was to the effect that if we REALLY had aliens in Area 51 or whatever, we’d shout it from the rooftops. Do you have any idea the funding we would get, he said? It would make Apollo look like pocket change. Anybody with a Ph. D. in physics or astronomy would have money thrown at them by the bushel basket! Cover it up? Idiotic. Besides, the only way 3 scientists can keep a secret is if all three are dead; and they have probably published it anyway!

]]> By: ND http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/31/how-to-get-nasa-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-187689 ND Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:31:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/31/how-to-get-nasa-funded/#comment-187689 Gary Ansorge, And an interesting twist today, we're using their Soyuz to send US and other astronauts to ISS. Gary Ansorge,

And an interesting twist today, we’re using their Soyuz to send US and other astronauts to ISS.

]]> By: Gary Ansorge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/31/how-to-get-nasa-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-187672 Gary Ansorge Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:51:20 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/31/how-to-get-nasa-funded/#comment-187672 PS: Hey Phil, I'm occasionally a betting man and I'm betting you're already familiar with the PhD comic strip but if I'm wrong, here's a link to one comic that mentions astronomers in an enviable light,,, http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=791 You will see what I mean if you look down about six panels to the right. So, is it true? Do astronomers really have lives beyond grad school??? GAry 7 PS:

Hey Phil, I’m occasionally a betting man and I’m betting you’re already familiar with the PhD comic strip but if I’m wrong, here’s a link to one comic that mentions astronomers in an enviable light,,,

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=791

You will see what I mean if you look down about six panels to the right.

So, is it true? Do astronomers really have lives beyond grad school???

GAry 7

]]> By: Gary Ansorge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/31/how-to-get-nasa-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-187656 Gary Ansorge Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:18:47 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/31/how-to-get-nasa-funded/#comment-187656 Ad Hominid: Yeah, I was living with my grand mother in Nevada when Sputnik went up, on Oct 4th 1957. She came running in to tell me we were all doomed. When I laughed she said "Oh grandson. You just don't understand how terrible this is,,,". Which was really funny to me, since I'd already been reading SciFi for four years and saw the Sputnik as the first indicator of a headlong rush into space. Sputnik was obviously a challenge to get us off our fat, lazy butts and raise the gauntlet. It worked too, for a while. Too bad the Ruskies couldn't keep up with us. They were interesting competitors,,, GAry 7 Ad Hominid:

Yeah, I was living with my grand mother in Nevada when Sputnik went up, on Oct 4th 1957. She came running in to tell me we were all doomed. When I laughed she said “Oh grandson. You just don’t understand how terrible this is,,,”. Which was really funny to me, since I’d already been reading SciFi for four years and saw the Sputnik as the first indicator of a headlong rush into space. Sputnik was obviously a challenge to get us off our fat, lazy butts and raise the gauntlet. It worked too, for a while. Too bad the Ruskies couldn’t keep up with us. They were interesting competitors,,,

GAry 7

]]> By: New NASA Funding Proposal: Blow Up Mars | Astroengine.com http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/31/how-to-get-nasa-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-187636 New NASA Funding Proposal: Blow Up Mars | Astroengine.com Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:10:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/31/how-to-get-nasa-funded/#comment-187636 [...] Bad Astronomy [...] [...] Bad Astronomy [...]

]]> By: LukeL http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/31/how-to-get-nasa-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-187625 LukeL Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:06:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/05/31/how-to-get-nasa-funded/#comment-187625 How about just bankrupting themselves through poor business practices and ask for a 200 billiob dollar bailout with the chance of an aditional 100 billion after you blow the first 200 How about just bankrupting themselves through poor business practices and ask for a 200 billiob dollar bailout with the chance of an aditional 100 billion after you blow the first 200

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