I'll ignore the snark in your reply and show you what I'm talking about.
The left has a long track record of using "crises" to justify increased control and centralization.
See Marx, Karl. The crisis was the "inevitable" collapse of capitalism. To avoid catastrophe, power must be centralized in the hands of the proletariat - actually in the hands of bureaucrats who know how to "plan" best. See "The Black Book of Communism" for details.
See Wilson, Woodrow. The crisis was World War I. To avoid catastrophe, power must be centralized in the hands of bureaucrats who know how to "plan" best. See the book "Liberal Fascism" for details on the lengths to which he centralized power and control.
See Roosevelt, Franklin D.. The crisis was the Great Depression. To avoid catastrophe, power must be centralized in the hands of bureaucrats who know how to "plan" best (called the Brain Trust). See the book "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression" for details. Also, read up on the National Recovery Administration if you want a taste of centralization of power and control under FDR.
See Gore, Al. The crisis is "global warming" and the destruction of Earth's biosphere. To avoid catastrophe, power must be centralized in the hands of scientists - actually in the hands of bureaucrats who know how to "plan" best. See Kyoto Accord, Carbon Tax, Carbon Cap and Trade, etc.
Do you understand what I'm talking about now?
>>>Do you understand what I’m talking about now?
Not a bit since nothing you say has any relation to the issue at hand. Dragging Marx in this for heavens sake.
A program by astronomers to catalog the debris of the solar system and chart the orbits has no application I can see to everyday life and politics. None whatsoever. Just a few years ago another one of these asteroids passed between the moon and earth. It was a very near miss and we didn’t see it coming. If we now can find these things it seems sensible we do.
When all is said and done, this is simply one more space project. Many have come before, many will follow. Reasonable people can can debate the general or scientific usefulness of any one of them, but I don’t see totalitarianism to have come or likely to result from any of these.
Beyond that to jump on ANY random science discussion just because a second rate politician named Al ran a scam is absurd. I’ve seen it on other threads, most recently one on volcanoes and geology. I usually let it slide but sometimes the paranoia really has to be answered.
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