Hate living in cohoes. Really hate time Warner cable , they truly have most people by the ding ding when it comes to cable and Internet. You may think by going to another service, that you are not dealing with twc but you are. Any ways stuck with the crappy twc for now. Just have to wait and see. Come on direct tv or Verizon fios . Get service here for tv, Internet and phone.
Our Direct TV box blew out yesterday. Three days without TV. He is searching through all old movies for something to watch. Boy! Must be so hard with pre-season games and races for him. Can you imagine NO TV for 3 days???
Peter Torsone14 minutes ago There is an alarmingly common thought in America that NASA is useless. That space is only good for TV and GPS. Why is this? It is because we are concerned with the now. Why send people to mars when we can launch a satellite to help me watch TV? In this sense those people are right the are no immediate, direct benefits to society from sending people to another world. But I can still give three good reasons to do it. One, the science. Landing on another body instantly tells you about the history of it. Was there water? Was there life? What is special about it? How did it form? All these questions are answered. And the answers to these questions help us to learn more about our own planet. Second technology used on these missions can be reapplied to tasks here on earth. Pacemakers, fire fighting suits, and Doppler radar are some examples of the hundreds of spinoffs used in society today. Finally there is a Social aspect to the exploration of space. When we first took our first tentative steps into space millions of people watched them happen live. It is estimated that 135million people watched John Glenn orbit earth for the first time, one BILLION watched or listened on the radio to the Christmas broadcast from Apollo 8 in lunar orbit, and 750 million watched the first steps on the moon. From 1970 to 1977 there was a noticeable increase In the number of engineers, scientists, and mathematicians in the US. This was the period of time when children and teens who had watched the space program progress were finding jobs. The triumphs by NASA inspired them to take on complicated problems and high level jobs. But after 1977 the number of these such jobs decreased and is still in this slide. Why? Because there was nothing for kids to look up to. Exploration is the greatest motivator. And space is one of the only places left to explore. Currently NASA's budget is 17 billion dollars a year. Thats half a penny out of every taxpayer dollar. Let's double that. One penny out of every dollar and 34 billion a year. Realistically we would be on mars 5 to 7 years after depending on planetary alignment, in addition to a permanent outpost on the moon and flights to near earth asteroids. All that for a penny more. The JSF program cost 338 billion to make an aircraft that is not yet in service. The 2012 summer olympics cost about 15 billion, thats enough to buy six Curiosity rovers. The bank bailout cost 700 billion, thats more than NASA has spent in its entire fifty years of existence. Compared to other endeavors NASA is cheap and gets more results. So why not go? Most politicians know these facts. They know what they can gain. But they are more concerned with faring well on Election day than dreams and science. They are focused on today with little concern for tomorrow.
Our Direct TV box blew out yesterday. Three days without TV. He is searching through all old movies for something to watch. Boy! Must be so hard with pre-season games and races for him. Can you imagine NO TV for 3 days???
Peter Torsone14 minutes ago There is an alarmingly common thought in America that NASA is useless. That space is only good for TV and GPS. Why is this? It is because we are concerned with the now. Why send people to mars when we can launch a satellite to help me watch TV? In this sense those people are right the are no immediate, direct benefits to society from sending people to another world. But I can still give three good reasons to do it. One, the science. Landing on another body instantly tells you about the history of it. Was there water? Was there life? What is special about it? How did it form? All these questions are answered. And the answers to these questions help us to learn more about our own planet. Second technology used on these missions can be reapplied to tasks here on earth. Pacemakers, fire fighting suits, and Doppler radar are some examples of the hundreds of spinoffs used in society today. Finally there is a Social aspect to the exploration of space. When we first took our first tentative steps into space millions of people watched them happen live. It is estimated that 135million people watched John Glenn orbit earth for the first time, one BILLION watched or listened on the radio to the Christmas broadcast from Apollo 8 in lunar orbit, and 750 million watched the first steps on the moon. From 1970 to 1977 there was a noticeable increase In the number of engineers, scientists, and mathematicians in the US. This was the period of time when children and teens who had watched the space program progress were finding jobs. The triumphs by NASA inspired them to take on complicated problems and high level jobs. But after 1977 the number of these such jobs decreased and is still in this slide. Why? Because there was nothing for kids to look up to. Exploration is the greatest motivator. And space is one of the only places left to explore. Currently NASA's budget is 17 billion dollars a year. Thats half a penny out of every taxpayer dollar. Let's double that. One penny out of every dollar and 34 billion a year. Realistically we would be on mars 5 to 7 years after depending on planetary alignment, in addition to a permanent outpost on the moon and flights to near earth asteroids. All that for a penny more. The JSF program cost 338 billion to make an aircraft that is not yet in service. The 2012 summer olympics cost about 15 billion, thats enough to buy six Curiosity rovers. The bank bailout cost 700 billion, thats more than NASA has spent in its entire fifty years of existence. Compared to other endeavors NASA is cheap and gets more results. So why not go? Most politicians know these facts. They know what they can gain. But they are more concerned with faring well on Election day than dreams and science. They are focused on today with little concern for tomorrow.
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