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please dispute any facts that you don't understand or believe one at a time, and we'll go through them. at least you're honest, for a conservative, to say that you WOULD be against them if you KNEW about them. that's a good start. it means if we can pull you away from your propaganda, you will turn back into a normal human being.

investment in space has brought back dozens of dollars into the economy for each dollar invested. the real question is can we possibly afford NOT to engage in space exploration.

how DON'T they?

they make GMOD crops that are patented. their seeds spread to other farms and then monsanto comes and sues those farmers for "growing our plants without a license," putting many out of business.

The crops in many cases are not fit for human consumption, and those seeds have been mixing with and tainting human consumable crops, such as corn. perhaps you heard of the huge taco recall, due to poison being in the corn, thanks to monsanto. but that's just scratching the surface. they are taking gene mods such as insecticide production, and putting those right into the plants, so that a farmer can't even grow a plant without there being toxins in it. they now have plants that are "round-up ready" which means they will survive being sprayed with roundup. unfortunately many of the plants with these genes are spreading said genes to weeds, which is now making round-up useless... so a more toxic form has to be devised.

They have a whole "system" of poisons they expect farmers to use that are doing nothing more than poisoning millions of people while creating super-strains of pests that are resistant to ever more highly toxic versions of their chemicals. Who even knows what new diseases we americans are getting from being exposed to all this junk.

Let's not forget they want Bovine Gorwth Hormone in milk, which does intense damage to cows, and is causing many children to reach puberty years before they are supposed to. the long term effects of putting dangerous hormones into our milk supply can not be ignored.

Monsanto sued a company for saying its milk does not contain bovine growth hormone. The bush supreme court upheld the suit, taking away the other company's freedom of speech to say what they do and don't have in their milk. It goes on and on. the company is EVIL. nothing more. nothing less.

Yes, of course. We are embryonic, here, in our tiny little planet. we are so primitive, that we haven't even gone to the next star yet. We are infants.

That part aside, the fact is that the R&D to put us in space in the first place gave us technologies such as computers, microprocessors, the internet, and all sorts of other breakthroughs that have driven our economy and fed more people than all the charities combined.

So OF COURSE we should go to space, and explore, and improve, and grow as a species, and expand and do amazing things.

ok so here's the $64 question.

is it proper to allow collusion such as that to go unfettered?

let's not start the brain cancer treatments at too early an age, ok?

they may not be able to be competitive, but they sure are good at blocking everybody else from really entering the market.

I use as a case and point, the whole debacle with the EV-1 that was depicted in the documentary, "who killed the electric car."

they not only recalled these successful vehicles, but made sure to shred them so completely that nobody would ever see them again.

GM bought out ECD Ovonics, the company that developed battery technology that would give a car more than a 1000 mile range on a charge... then when they canceled the EV-1, they sold ECD Ovonics to none other than Cheveron...

Don't worry, they're not pursuing that battery technology at all anymore.

I know you probably agree with me that that sucks.

and you probably agree with me that such companies should be allowed to die if they fail.

I feel that if they're so likely to fail, then we have an opportunity to cut them up into nimble competitive little companies that can actually innovate and stop being afraid of losing money on business models that exist today. but just see what happens when there's something new.

not really a pessimist. just a wacko.

well, lets look at history. how long does it take for america to be fooled by them each time? after the republican great depression, it took 20 years for people to fall for their divisive rhetoric again. then after they were in power for 8 years and we did nothing about sputnik, the dems were able to get things back on track, and the wedge issues worked nicely after only another 8 years or so...

generally, if things are going well economically, the republicans can come back into power because they can fool enough people into thinking that they won't fuck the world up yet another time. but they always do.

death penalty?

what he should do at the very least, is turn himself in.