To the World: USA probe off to MARS!

@KingDavid403 said
Bonus question: Give examples in which the word "pride" is:
a. good
b. neutral
c. bad
d. punishable crimespeak

Biblically speaking, here are just some of the biblical verses on "Pride." It's fairly clear Biblically that most forms of pride are bad spiritually.

[Job 35:12 NKJV] 12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, Because of the pride of evil ...[text shortened]... a good, through job at something; or one playfully boasting, etc.
The rest is for us to discern.

wow

@AverageJoe1 said
Pardon my pride. No link from me will do it justice. . The booster that took it up there came back and landed squarely on the deck. Eat your heart out, rest of the world..
Turn up the sound!!!

I sincerely hope Earth will not contaminate Mars.

@Ghost-of-a-Duke said
Standing on the shoulders of giants. British giants.

If there was no Charles Babbage and Alan Turing, there would be no Steve Jobs or Bill Gates.

Stick that in your pipe.

One might also mention James Clerk Maxwell (Scottish) and Michael Faraday (English), upon whose research pretty much all of modern technology rests.

@moonbus said
One might also mention James Clerk Maxwell (Scottish) and Michael Faraday (English), upon whose research pretty much all of modern technology rests.

Don't forget the genius in Tesla, realizing before anyone else electric power generation using DC sucked because they sent say 110 volts DC to houses and the loses per mile made it impractical to power a whole city but Tesla knew to transmit the energy at much higher voltage, say ten thousand volts because the losses are tied to say 10 volts drop per mile, just to pick a number out of my hat, so a mile at 110 volts means one mile later the voltage is now 100 volts and a mile further 90 volts so the thinking ATT was make smaller generators every mile or so. But the genius of Tesla was using AC which allows the relatively easy transformation from say 10,000 volts (and now the big guys shove 1 MILLION volts in transmission lines and transformed at the other end of the distribution system so losses were MUCH less than Edison's DC power generation.
Fast forward a hundred years and now we actually can generate ultra high voltage DC transmission with some high powered chips and circuitry to transform high to low voltage for houses. But for the time, Tesla was absolutely right and Edison was absolutely wrong and the rivalry ended up killing Tesla.

@Ghost-of-a-Duke said
He wrote: "Pardon my pride. No link from me will do it justice. . The booster that took it up there came back and landed squarely on the deck. Eat your heart out, rest of the world.. Turn up the sound!!!"

In contrast, when the UK, for example, hosted the best ever Olympic opening ceremony in history, I simply gave a nonchalant nod when congratulated by non British ...[text shortened]... t and pound my chest as though I personally had brought home seven gold medals, and a talking cat...

Yes, but AJ's rant was clearly a half-serious bait to get a rise out of people like you.

But anyway, now that it's come up, when people's sports teams win something, ripping open your shirt and pounding your chest is almost exactly the way many fans react.

Obviously this is a different topic, but why do people consider it more acceptable to brag because the mercenaries hired by a team in your city scored an extra goal over the mercenaries hired by a team in the next city over than to brag about the scientific or technological accomplishments of your country?

@sh76 said
Yes, but AJ's rant was clearly a half-serious bait to get a rise out of people like you.

But anyway, now that it's come up, when people's sports teams win something, ripping open your shirt and pounding your chest is almost exactly the way many fans react.

Obviously this is a different topic, but why do people consider it more acceptable to brag because the mercenaries hi ...[text shortened]... e next city over than to brag about the scientific or technological accomplishments of your country?

Easy for a Jets fan to say.

If AJ didn't combine that irrational pride with extreme xenophobia it would be rather harmless.

@no1marauder said
Easy for a Jets fan to say.

If AJ didn't combine that irrational pride with extreme xenophobia it would be rather harmless.

Agreed.

@no1marauder said
Easy for a Jets fan to say.

If AJ didn't combine that irrational pride with extreme xenophobia it would be rather harmless.

Ouch!

Don't make fun. At this rate, the Jets should make the playoffs some time between 2035 and 2040.

@sh76 said
Yes, but AJ's rant was clearly a half-serious bait to get a rise out of people like you.

But anyway, now that it's come up, when people's sports teams win something, ripping open your shirt and pounding your chest is almost exactly the way many fans react.

Obviously this is a different topic, but why do people consider it more acceptable to brag because the mercenaries hi ...[text shortened]... e next city over than to brag about the scientific or technological accomplishments of your country?

Sending probes to Mars at federal expense if a fine thing indeed. No objection there. It's pure research at its best which might or might not someday pay out rich dividends--like people getting pocket calculators because Americans went to the moon.

But have a look at this article here:

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-administration-dismantling-efforts-fight-next-pandemic

It details how the Trump administration is cancelling funding for medical research. This is the kind of pure research which really should not have to justify itself in terms of dollar-ROI. It ought to be self-evidently in the national interest to be prepared for the next pandemic, yet Trump and RFK Jr. are determined to gut programme after programme. America under Trump is abdicating its role as a world leader on the medical front.