This. Rick Mercer: ...I dont know much about science but I know this: They didnt land a spaceship on a comet using anecdotal evidence and they didnt calibrate the rate of descent using focus groups. Who doesnt love this Canadian, and everything he does on The RMR? (whole rant) Last week I was looking at my Facebook feed when my friend updated his status to read, “One hour ago humanity successfully landed a spacecraft on a slowly tumbling mountain of ice and rock—let’s celebrate.” It was a nice break from your classic updates such as “Im eating pizza!” or “my cat is possessed.” Since then, like so many people, I’ve become obsessed with what a group of European science geeks have been up to in outer space. The numbers alone make my brain hurt. They landed a space craft on a comet that is half a billion kilometres away. It took ten years to get there and the comet is moving at 135,000 kilometres an hour. For thousands of years people trembled in fear when a comet appeared in our sky and now, in 2014, we have visited one. What an astounding thing humanity has accomplished all in the name of pure science. And my God, how smart must the men and women be who pulled this thing off. And how sad that here on Earth, or at least on our little part of it in Canada, pure science is no longer encouraged. We have a government that not only abolished the Office of the National Science Advisor, but they bragged about it. In Canada, the only time you hear about scientists now is when they’re being told to shut up or theyre being shut down by a government who cant even begin to understand what the scientists are talking about. I dont know much about science but I know this: They didnt land a spaceship on a comet using anecdotal evidence and they didnt calibrate the rate of descent using focus groups. Canadians, we get excited about pure science. Canadians, we are as passionate and as curious as anyone else. Its our government that begs to differ. ~ Rick Mercer Report rickmercer/Rick-s-Rant.aspx
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 23:30:49 +0000
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