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youwillhateme
· 10 years ago
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I don't know about that. Just because we have the money to research diseases doesn't mean we'll have the knowledge to cure them. Or the knowledge and resources to travel to distant planets. It takes time as well as money, if we're ever even able to do it in the first place.
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thegrumpus
· 10 years ago
OP is suggesting we stay out of WW2 and let the Nazis go to town on the rest of the world. We'd all be conducting medical research in German without the aid of any Jewish scientists. So yeah... It isn't any of your business. You aren't God, so STFU!!!
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15jbaughman
· 10 years ago
The technology to reach other stars has been developed by the designing of a warp drive, though by moving space around one's self, masses of energy are gathered in the ellipse surrounding the ship and is all released the moment you stop. so the further you travel, the more energy is released, and whatever location you're traveling to is completely obliterated. Oh? You wanna travel to see Sirius B? Too bad you'd destroy it by getting there, and probably yourself along with it. You'd need to travel to an empty part of space, and still be too far from anything for it to be any good. We'd need to develop alternate faster than light travel for it to be effective
lucifer
· 10 years ago
Short, meaningless comment coming through. Potatoes.
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metalman
· 10 years ago
Or doing so we'd make more deadly diseases. Also, things like GPS, radar, Choclate, etc. Won't exist how they do today. Things would be completely different.
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guest
· 10 years ago
I couldnt disagree more
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deleted
· 10 years ago
Well, without war, it would have taken longer to invent the internet,radar, soar, Wi-Fi, nuclear energy, and computers so,...
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chs4esq
· 10 years ago
Who is We? If you mean the United States, England, Russia, or France, you'd all be speaking German right now. If you mean China, you'd be speaking Japanese. Just because you want to do something, doesn't mean everyone else wants to play along.
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field_hockey22
· 10 years ago
And all of that money was helping other countries that don't have armies because they expect us to protect them...
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caustin12
· 10 years ago
This is stupid
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hoopla
· 10 years ago
A multi million dollar mars orbiter was recently sent off and that's about the same amount of money the US is spending on ISIS at the moment so I feel that money is fairly equally (not always) spent it's just that war is more publicized than science
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guest
· 10 years ago
We're developed ion propulsion systems, we've developed theoretical warp drives. But they are just ideas and nothing practiced. To actually utilize them we need people acting as a whole not an individual nationality. Humans were meant to further explore the galaxy, not just Americans or just Russians or just any single ethnic group. Come together people. We can make a hell of a difference.
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spursandniners
· 10 years ago
I AGREE!! Just like science & society would have been further advanced if the Church & Religion would not have delayed peoples ideas as WITCHCRAFT during the Dark Ages. I'm a Christian, and it's about a relationship with God, not religion. And that's where they got it wrong. Now we are trying to force peace on the world with extreme force and wasting money on wars that will NOT help humanity but destroy it. Instead of reaching for the stars & or taking care of the HUMAN race.
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dave99
· 10 years ago
Yeah, but Hitler wouldn't have been stopped...
jubayoo
· 9 years ago
Stars? That stuff made of burning gas? Sure let's travel to other stars...
maddashforpie
· 9 years ago
Actually, we'd all be speaking German and there wouldn't be anymore Jews...
guest
· 10 years ago
And maybe we could have even spelled traveled correctly...
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jillaroo
· 10 years ago
Travelled is the correct way to spell it. It's another one of those 'colour' or 'color' things.
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girlinwonderland
· 10 years ago
there is no real "correct" way to spell things us Americans spell things differently than you Brits may
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chs4esq
· 10 years ago
And the Brits spell most words different from the French. English is 40% French, 30% German, and the other 30 is a mix of anglo, gaelic, and other languages. Just because language is the same in different countries doesn't mean the spelling is the same. And just because it's not the way you spell it, doesn't mean its wrong... Color = Colour but doesn't equal kolor
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metalman
· 10 years ago
Imperial English comes from Latin and German pronunciation rather than the Queens English.
jillaroo
· 10 years ago
Girlinwonderland, I never said traveled was incorrect either. They are both correct, and I'm not British, I'm Aussie. chs4esq, your argument makes no sense, English is English, it was influenced by other languages, but is not actually '40% French' and so on. Just like foreign languages have been influenced by English words, but I'd hardly say that (for instance) Japanese is 2% English just because it's borrowed words to describe things. The original guest is the one you should be annoyed at if you want to be annoyed at anyone, he was the one claiming that 'travelled' is incorrect, whereas I never said traveled was incorrect, just that travelled is also correct.
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girlinwonderland
· 10 years ago
sorry just by the general sense of what you were saying I thought that you were implying that if travelled was correct then traveled was incorrect
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guest
· 10 years ago
Oh. Sorry.
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