“I THINK THAT IT’S GREAT THAT WE HAVE DISCOVERED A NEW LIFE FORM ON OUR PLANET.”


by RJ White

NASA researchers, drilling hundreds of feet below the Antarctic ice shelf, have discovered a tiny, shrimp-like organism, alive and swimming, confounding some theories about what types of animals can survive at that depth and temperature. Surely, something like this should be a bit humbling, showing that we haven’t come close to understanding the natural and hidden wonders of our planet, let alone the universe. Also, it shows that scientific exploration, moving ever forward, can unlock the doors of knowledge, with each little discovery serving to enrich mankind as a whole.

The great thing about this age in which we live is that discoveries like this can now be shared immediately with untold scores of people, who can share in such wonders and make their opinions about them known to all. Oh wait- did I say “great thing?” Sorry, I meant “really, really awful thing.”

who cares? another worthless venture brought to you by nasa and the american tax payers…

What are the limits? That thing could carry a germ that could wipe us out…

Do the benefits of that kind of exploration outweigh the risk?

Are you kidding me? We are CLOSING PUBLIC SCOOLS accross the nation but our government pays for this Exploration in wasted time? Yeah I wonder why our country is in the state its in! Did these Scientits have a outback BBQ after ther discovery? So disapointed in my government.

Shouldn’t we be focused on fixing what is broken on the surface of this planet first?

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration. What are they doing in the ocean under the ice? Are they confused about what they exist for? or maybe they are just another out of control Federal Govenment spending apparatus trying to justify their existence? No wonder this country is broke going broker. Someone should call them up and tell them to knock it off.

The unfortunate thing is that that camera (probably -unless they performed the camera drop and drilling sterilely) now brings new bacteria, viruses and fungi that were not part of that environment into an environment that may be ill-equipped to deal with invasive species. That they were surprised suggests they may not have taken the appropriate caution not to mess with the environment the way the rest of mankind has been bringing in species into new environments and destroying the ecological balance previously in place (cane toads into australia as an example of purposeful introduction, or zebra mussels into the great lakes as an accidental one, small pox into the new world accidental then used maliciously on the North American indians. )

Now how is this find going to help the economy and the starving children?

OK, So whats the National Aeronautics and Space Administration doing under the ice
in Antarctica ?? Could it have anything to do with Washington’s fraudulent global
warming agenda ?

Only God can create this creature, stop trying to think with science. It doesn’t make sense.

There it was just swimming along minding it’s own business and it get plucked out of it’s home and ends up on top of the ice with God knows how many idiots with glasses and pocket protectors (under thier parkas) staring down at it with their mouths open watching WHILE IT DIES !!!
What a life altering discovery. Now the hundreds of thousands of starving people or those dying from horrible diseases can rest easy!
Science has prevailed.

I always thought NASA was just about Space, now at least I know where my tax payer dollars are going to find a new shrimp cocktail , dont worry about AIDS cures or feeding the third world this is far more important.

It was probably an imperfection on the expensive camera we taxpayers footed the bill for and NASA called it a shrimp?!

Great. Now we can spend millions of dollars to search frozen moons for shrimp. Think about that next time you see a telethon.

I THINK THAT IT’S GREAT THAT WE HAVE DISCOVERED A NEW LIFE FORM ON OUR PLANET.LET’S LEAVE IT ALONE.BECAUSE IT MAY BE DEADLY TO SOME OF THESE SO CALLED HUMANS.ON SECOND THOUGHT?????

Bubba Gump already called out “ice shelf shrimp” in the movie… n-ice try NASA

Maybe if they didn’t drill so many holes in the ice it would slow down the melting of the ice caps?

Nasa spends money on this and the census B spends millions on advertising to send in your Census???? We got a letter (and so did you) just to tell us that the Census B is sending the Census!?!?! wonder what the cost of sending every American a letter telling them they are going to get a letter was?

So you are saying that “science” was wrong about where life can live. Is there a possibility that “science” is wrong about the causes of climate change? Tell me it ain’t so!

Though, to be fair, the article is a bit shy on some details (why is the research being done? was anything else found?) and there are a good number of responses also upholding the importance of scientific exploration. However, we don’t want those people to Get Off The Internet. Just the dumb ones.



Aliens as Opposed to Babysitters


by Charlie Bebattica

Few people in recent memory have devoted themselves to the popularization of the wonders of science as late astronomer Carl Sagan had during his lifetime. His 1997 book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, is an exceptional work which advocates reasoned critical thinking over the banalities of psuedo-science. Unlike many of his peers in the skeptical set, Sagan didn’t chide, browbeat, or indulge in snide condescention; he understood mankind’s intrinsic hunger for answers, and attempted to demonstrate why the scientific method is crucial for understanding the world around us.

Not everyone agrees, of course. Of the (presently) 377 Amazon.com customer reviews of the book, 271 give The Demon-Haunted World the maximum five-star rating while 14 give it just one. Here are a few telling excerpts from the one-star review crowd:

He has always been very superficial when criticizing the so called “pseudosciences”, a term that, by the very way he uses it, only shows how his outlook on Science and on human Knowledge is short-sighted. Sagan sees Science as the supreme method for looking at and for understanding the Universe we live in, looking with despise on other ways of understanding reality (presently, I prefer to see Science as just one out of many different ways of grasping Nature’s mysteries).

I myself like to look at the Universe with my head tilted 45 degrees to the left.

It amazes me that this book is so extravagantly over praised. It really is a dull, creaky, moldy hymn to the belief that science can substitute for religion. Wrong. In a materialist universe, nihilism is the only point of view justified by the facts and the only objection to even crimes against humanity such as genocide is that you don’t personally like it (as Bertrand Russell admitted).

In other words, “Without my unquestioned faith, there would be nothing to keep me from going on a mass murder spree.” In that case, what can I say but “YAY, DOGMATIC ZEALOTRY” (and check to see if Kevlar vests qualify for super saver shipping rates).

I find myself perplexed at Sagan’s utter lack of consideration for the area thru which matter-science and spirit are interoperative. One example is his comment regarding abduction scenarios and why aliens never are “caught” by house alarms hooked to cameras and the like. I mean, I thought we were talking about alien phenomena, not the babysitter or neighborhood crook.

Unless your babysitter or neighborhood crook happens to be Gorthan from Rigel-Prime, trying to pick up some extra solar credits in between his usual gig of dispensing 50′s sci-fi movie clichés and anal probes…

To paraphrase Epicurus: I spit on science and all those who worship it if it does not make us happier. Sagan and all the members of the Church of the Scientific Inquisition need to justify every scientific discovery with an affirmative answer to the following: Will knowing this increase human happiness? If the answer is negative (as it clearly is for such things as the ability to manufacture bio-terrorist weapons) then let us bury that scientific discovery and be done with it. Sagan and his other scientism buddies worship science for its own sake. We need to judge everything according to whether it makes us happier or not. Once you make something other than human happiness be the criterion for what is good or bad, you have disengaged yourself from the species and are an enemy of mankind. If science helps-great! If it unleashes tools and weapons that no one can control-to the trash heap it must go!!

Using internet technology to pass vulgar utilitarian rants off as book reviews? Not increasing human happiness, I’m afraid. The trash heap is that way, compadre.

He must take us all to be dumb, inbred, crud breeders. To him we must be too dumb to tell a UFO from swamp gas or bigfoot from a guy in a costume.

Just a little defensive, eh?

What can I say,
The Devil is preety good at covering stuff up. He uses even the best Scientist and astronomers to crush anything spiritual.

Of coarse this book is garbage and I suggest that everyone who likes this book to please take yourself and your scientific thinking out of the box.

In the next coming years people you are gonna see some serious evil spirtual activity and because you have polluted yourselves with closing your mind of to it, you won’t know or be ready for the things that are going to occur.

Get thee behind me, rudimentary syntax and grammar skills — I WILL NOT BE PUT IN A BOX AND POLLUTED!



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