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WHAT’S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 18 Jan 08, Washington, DC
1. GLOBALIZATION: U.S. DOMINANCE IN SCIENCE CHALLENGED.
Science and Engineering Indicators 2008, the biennial report of the
National Science Board, came out this week. It’s not going to make the
best-seller list, but with the economy in free fall even as President Bush
signed a crushing 2008 science budget, it’s a good idea to see where we
stand. The conclusion to the Overview chapter notes a rapid "shift in the
epicenter of world S&T activities, toward several rapidly growing Asian
economies." The shift was led by the emergence of China as the world’s
second largest economy. By comparison, the report said, the EU’s position
has degraded in high-tech trade, while "Japan appears stagnant and has
lost market share in a number of areas. The U.S. is holding its own." I
don’t know how "holding its own" and "stagnant" differ, and the Board
might ask Ford about market share. But this is not a race. If we are
ever to have world peace, everyone must share in the benefits of science.
Saddled with the Iraq War and years of neglect of science, the huge U.S.
economy could pull everyone down.
2. STIMULUS: HERE’S AN IDEA, LET’S CUT LAST YEARS TAXES.
Bernanke: Uh, but Mr. President, we’ve already spent those taxes on the
Great War to stop Iraq’s WMDs. Bush: Yes, and the War was a great
success; it ended the WMD problem, so taxpayers can be reimbursed.
Bernanke: Why not cut the taxes they haven’t paid? Bush: Oh, cut those
too; you can’t cut too many taxes.
3. INTERFERENCE: ASTRONOMY IN THE THIRD MILLENIUM.
At a dark energy workshop in September, Steve Weinberg talked about
an "infantile fixation on putting people into space." At the American
Astronomical Society meeting in Austin last week, an angry Mike Griffin
showed the astronomy community what Weinberg meant. "I hope this is what
you want," he sneered, referring to a congressional edict requiring NASA
to spend $60M on the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM), rather than the
$22M it had planned. Griffin promised steep cuts in: the James Webb space
telescope, dark-energy searches, x-ray astronomy and gravity waves in
return. The most exciting discovery in astronomy in this century has been
the abundance of extra-solar planets, even as hope of finding extra-
terrestrial life in the solar system fades. Most of the extra-solar
planets have been huge or we couldn’t see them, which would make life as
we know it impossible. With an interferometer baseline of 9 meters SIM
should easily detect Earth-sized planets.
4. EXPELLED: NO INTELLIGENCE EXHIBITED.
In September, WN wrote about production of a documentary "Expelled: No
intelligence allowed," featuring creepy narrator Ben Stein. It’s the
story of poor Guillermo Gonzalez, denied tenure at Iowa State
http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN07/wn092807.html just because he learned
nothing in college. Gonzales coauthored "Privileged Planet," a screwy
take on the screwy anthropic principle: "If things were different, things
wouldn’t be the way things are." He got $58,000 from the Templeton
Foundation for this kind of deep thinking.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND.
Opinions are the author's and not necessarily shared by the
University of Maryland, but they should be.
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Archives of What's New can be found at http://www.bobpark.org
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| Title: Re: WHAT’S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 18 Jan 08, Washington, DC |
19 Jan 2008 07:30:51 AM |
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"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:oBakj.305809$Fc.68165@attbi_s21...
WHAT’S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 18 Jan 08, Washington, DC
1. GLOBALIZATION: U.S. DOMINANCE IN SCIENCE CHALLENGED.
Science and Engineering Indicators 2008, the biennial report of the
National Science Board, came out this week. It’s not going to make the
best-seller list, but with the economy in free fall even as President Bush
signed a crushing 2008 science budget, it’s a good idea to see where we
stand. The conclusion to the Overview chapter notes a rapid "shift in the
epicenter of world S&T activities, toward several rapidly growing Asian
economies." The shift was led by the emergence of China as the world’s
second largest economy. By comparison, the report said, the EU’s position
has degraded in high-tech trade, while "Japan appears stagnant and has
lost market share in a number of areas. The U.S. is holding its own." I
don’t know how "holding its own" and "stagnant" differ, and the Board
might ask Ford about market share. But this is not a race. If we are
ever to have world peace, everyone must share in the benefits of science.
Saddled with the Iraq War and years of neglect of science, the huge U.S.
economy could pull everyone down.
The Iraq War is nothing to the war we are going to be saddled with when we
lose it thanks to Park and Sam. By the way, what U.N. sanctions were there
on Iraq -- IN FORCE? Plenty on paper, not a one in force! The sanctions
supposed to be on Iraq were actually on the United States and the few others
holding to them. The field was wide open to everyone else.
Robert Park, among others such as Sam, is responsible for the growing
global Hell of Earth Utopia / Babel / One World / Better World / Globalism
(Robert Park, among others such as Sam, is responsible for the growing
global Hell of a more evolved, more sophisticated and more insidious
totalitarian state tyranny). The [nothing] straw is piling up on the camel's
back. Hear the creak? Feel it?
2. STIMULUS: HERE’S AN IDEA, LET’S CUT LAST YEARS TAXES.
Bernanke: Uh, but Mr. President, we’ve already spent those taxes on the
Great War to stop Iraq’s WMDs. Bush: Yes, and the War was a great
success; it ended the WMD problem, so taxpayers can be reimbursed.
Bernanke: Why not cut the taxes they haven’t paid? Bush: Oh, cut those
too; you can’t cut too many taxes.
Balint Vazsonyi wrote a book in 1998, "America's 30 Years War." It is now
America's 40 Years War hellishly accelerating in its growing intensity,
Robert Park and Sam Wormley! You got your Balkanization!
3. INTERFERENCE: ASTRONOMY IN THE THIRD MILLENIUM.
At a dark energy workshop in September, Steve Weinberg talked about
an "infantile fixation on putting people into space." At the American
Astronomical Society meeting in Austin last week, an angry Mike Griffin
showed the astronomy community what Weinberg meant. "I hope this is what
you want," he sneered, referring to a congressional edict requiring NASA
to spend $60M on the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM), rather than the
$22M it had planned. Griffin promised steep cuts in: the James Webb space
telescope, dark-energy searches, x-ray astronomy and gravity waves in
return. The most exciting discovery in astronomy in this century has been
the abundance of extra-solar planets, even as hope of finding extra-
terrestrial life in the solar system fades. Most of the extra-solar
planets have been huge or we couldn’t see them, which would make life as
we know it impossible. With an interferometer baseline of 9 meters SIM
should easily detect Earth-sized planets.
"Infantile fixation on putting people into space." -- Steven Weinberg. Put
thousands to billions of colonists out there colonizing space and you have
the frontier economy and wealth -- and sheer frontier presence -- in
existence for thousands to millions of projects there is no economy or
wealth existing for now. Of course the Outer Space Treaty State's Great Wall
/ Iron Curtain has to come down first. The totalitarian state monopoly over
space frontier has to be done away with one way or another. But that means
also doing something about Steven Weinberg, Robert Park, Sam Wormley, and
many others of their 'Big Brother' / 'World Control' ilk in the process. A
day of reckoning is coming. Totalitarian perfect utopias (command societies)
make days of reckoning come about. Socialism, Fascism, Nazism, Communism,
Islamism, New Age American Liberalism.... are or were all loaded with high
to genius I.Q.'s and a great many supposedly very well educated people. It
seems human I.Q., and pure formal education, knows no difference between the
tyrannical state and the free state....nor any difference between wisdom and
stupidity until way too late.
The never could be anything like 'One World' without two (fully two) at
the very least. You probably can't picture it or understand the nature and
absolute requirement.
GLB
4. EXPELLED: NO INTELLIGENCE EXHIBITED.
In September, WN wrote about production of a documentary "Expelled: No
intelligence allowed," featuring creepy narrator Ben Stein. It’s the
story of poor Guillermo Gonzalez, denied tenure at Iowa State
http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN07/wn092807.html just because he learned
nothing in college. Gonzales coauthored "Privileged Planet," a screwy
take on the screwy anthropic principle: "If things were different, things
wouldn’t be the way things are." He got $58,000 from the Templeton
Foundation for this kind of deep thinking.
THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND.
Opinions are the author's and not necessarily shared by the
University of Maryland, but they should be.
---
Archives of What's New can be found at http://www.bobpark.org
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18 Jan 2008 07:00:52 PM |
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Sam Wormley wrote:
WHAT’S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 18 Jan 08, Washington, DC
[snip]
2. STIMULUS: HERE’S AN IDEA, LET’S CUT LAST YEARS TAXES.
Bernanke: Uh, but Mr. President, we’ve already spent those taxes on the
Great War to stop Iraq’s WMDs. Bush: Yes, and the War was a great
success; it ended the WMD problem, so taxpayers can be reimbursed.
Bernanke: Why not cut the taxes they haven’t paid? Bush: Oh, cut those
too; you can’t cut too many taxes.
[snip]
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/bushgo.htm
Lame duck Bush the Lesser stumbling out
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/state.htm
Limp ***** Bush the Lesser stumbling in
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Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/lajos.htm#a2
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