a candidate interested in theorectical physics...hmmmm
This Clark guy has finally said something that I can get behind. No, not that he believes that faster than light travel is possible (it is not), but that he has discussions like that with his friends and people. That's awesome. I have never known a single soul that has enjoyed discussing such things that wasn't an alright person...at least level-headed. I don't know. I've been pretty skeptical of the guy since he announced, primarily because all these people have been lauding his entrance into the race as if he was the second coming of Christ. There's something fishy about that (like it's an illuminati ploy or something) and I just haven't been able to get around that.
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But Gen. Clark is the first candidate that I have ever heard speak as if he's actually interested in science. And a president that's interested in science is more likely to promote scientific research, and scientific research is one of the things that I think government should have a heavy hand in (which hasn't been the case having presidents that believe that pure science is the responsibilty of the private quarter since at least Carter). Imagine, government money given out to support scientists wishing to research new fuels instead of how to refine oil differently to make more money. Scientists researching exploration of space instead of how to exploit it for profit. These are good things.
Anyway, this is of course just one star for the general...Howard Dean still has many more in my book...but at least Clark has moved beyond the field of no star candidates like Lieberman.
Oh, and by the way, faster than light travel is impossible because the energy needed to move even a single molecule that fast would approach infinity at an exponential rate as the molecule approaches the speed of light. Moving anything worth while would require so much energy we couldn't even imagine it. But warping space is viable (though would also require lots of energy, but only enough to wrinkle the space-time continuum so that a space-ship or whatever could plow through the wrinkles in time-space instead of having to traverse the fabric in it's entirety), and would get you from point A to point B in the universe faster than light could travel through space to go the same distance.
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But Gen. Clark is the first candidate that I have ever heard speak as if he's actually interested in science. And a president that's interested in science is more likely to promote scientific research, and scientific research is one of the things that I think government should have a heavy hand in (which hasn't been the case having presidents that believe that pure science is the responsibilty of the private quarter since at least Carter). Imagine, government money given out to support scientists wishing to research new fuels instead of how to refine oil differently to make more money. Scientists researching exploration of space instead of how to exploit it for profit. These are good things.
Anyway, this is of course just one star for the general...Howard Dean still has many more in my book...but at least Clark has moved beyond the field of no star candidates like Lieberman.
Oh, and by the way, faster than light travel is impossible because the energy needed to move even a single molecule that fast would approach infinity at an exponential rate as the molecule approaches the speed of light. Moving anything worth while would require so much energy we couldn't even imagine it. But warping space is viable (though would also require lots of energy, but only enough to wrinkle the space-time continuum so that a space-ship or whatever could plow through the wrinkles in time-space instead of having to traverse the fabric in it's entirety), and would get you from point A to point B in the universe faster than light could travel through space to go the same distance.
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