One sunny Hawaiian morning (Friday morning, to be precise), I sat taking my Kona coffee and reading the Honolulu Advertiser on the lanai. (Sigh.) Therein, I read an article about how NASA had just granted the University of Hawaii 8 million dollars in seed money to determine the cosmic origin of water. NASA has given nine similar grants to other universities, and evidently, there's more money to come.
(Click here to read the article for yourself.)
That's 80 million dollars to theorize where water may or may not have come from. $80 million in small change spent on unprovable ideas. In a time where fathers are killing their whole families because they can no longer make ends meet, I think that's frivilous spending. What do you think?
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Frivilous Spending / Unprovable Ideas
Posted by Amanda at 1:31 PM
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that is SO ridiculous! i hate the way that government wastes money on things like this, but in the same breath assures the public that we are their priority.
Yep, this is the world we live in!
They can give the money to me and I can tell give them a hint - read Genesis! In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth....
It is amazing what people call research now adays.
That makes me insane. All that money when it's right there in the Scripture. And we let these people send men to the moon?
ACK. you gotta be kidding me, that just makes me ill after all our economy is going through.