Jupiter won't take a right turn and head for another star if mankind was the wait an extra 200 or 4000 years. Humans have lived without space travel for tens of thousands of years - millions of years, depending on what you define as a human. Humans have left this planet for the first time only 40 years ago. If we don't make that leap soon, humans might forever be doomed to exploring only cyberspace. The reason, that a manned mission is not heading for Jupiter is that we have wasted too much money developing wars and fighting wars, money which would have been better spent investigating the space. But it got out anyway! Team that up with the recent hi-profile NASA failures, and I think that the preponderance of evidence suggests that the US government is as careless/incompetant as ever (pick your adjective).īottom line, if HAL was out there, somebody would have slipped up or intentionally spilled the beans. Short of secret alliances to build gravity lasers with space aliens, this is pretty much the most embarrassing thing that could happen to the US nuclear weapons program, short of blowing up Chicago by accident. if he is deliberately being made into a pawn in some kind of obscene international game, the SFbay area papers are doing a pretty good job because he looks guilty as hell.Ĭan you convincingly argue that some manager in the US military power structure or in research WANTED to give the PRC the blueprints to build a fusion weapon as a budget gambit? I mean, there are some crazy people out there, but most of them I know are bearish on increasing the nuclear stockpile. He allegedly conned his co-workers into logging him into systems above his security clearance, and is charged with using his augmented access to abscond with directions for building THE BOMB.
Hal 9000 birthday trial#
Sure, the NSA hires as many engineers as they can get their hooks into, but consider the trial of Wen Ho Lee from Livermore Labs. We have every evidence to believe that the military IT sector is incompetant, or at the very least careless.
I bet Pinker could play hell with those syllables.
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