XPost: sci.skeptic, sci.bio.paleontology, alt.atheism   
   XPost: alt.alien.skeptic   
   From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   So Wiki isn't a cite, it's not a legitimate cite, but you can   
   use it to establish that an idea is out there, you're not   
   making shit up... someone else else.   
      
   Anyway, here's Wiki on a Ganymede probe:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace-P   
      
   The idea here is NOT to establish that there's a Ganymede   
   probe, it's to establish that there isn't one.   
      
   Science isn't a priority. It's not.   
      
   See, Ganymede is one of the best candidates for life outside   
   of the earth, within our solar system. AND they have detected   
   things like oxygen! Not everywhere, but the belief is that   
   the life would exist within a subsurface ocean...   
      
   Venus?  That's even easier!  The potential life is high up   
   in the atmosphere. They don't even have to land! They could   
   just fly low, scooping up air into collectors then fly back   
   out.   
      
   No digging. No melting through ice. No landing, collecting   
   and then launching back into space...   
      
   And of course there's the Mars "Return Mission." Which   
   means gathering up samples and blasting them back to Earth   
   for analysis.   
      
   ALL OF THESE could have already been paid for. Done. All we   
   had to do is decide that science, the biggest scientific   
   discovery we could yet make is more important than killing   
   people in wars that are not our own.   
      
   HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS for other people's wars, nothing for   
   Ganymede. FOUR TRILLION DOLLARS wasted on an idiotic and   
   unjustifiable "Response" to CoronaPanic, but nothing for   
   the search for life...   
      
   Government is owned by the special interests, and the   
   special interests -- through bribes and blackmail -- tells   
   the government who to give the money to. And it's never   
   science. Not real science.   
      
   "Other people's problems."   
      
   There's PLENTY of examples of it, outside of science. But   
   it's always the same:  Money wasted on things that we   
   would be better off NOT getting involved in, and nothing   
   for things that matter.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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