Angry Cooper Rants: Now that we've solved the terrorist problem....

...can we please have SETI back?

For those of you who aren't aware (read: everyone). SETI means the "Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence." Ostensibly it's a huge bunch of nerds with giant satellite dishes trying to lesten for communiques, transmisions, anything out of the ordinary from space.

Obviously there's cable

Here's the deal. They only need five million dollars. Over TWO years. For those of you playing at home, that's almost equal to the cost of ONE predator missile. ONE. Between 2007-8 we fired 244. Just in the middle east. (damn right I did 15 seconds worth of research)

Listen, we, the whole of humanity, are one infinitessimally small speck in one solar system in one grain of sand galaxy in the giant beach that is the universe. Think about that. The whole of humanity is completely insignificant.

"And one day I'll reap GOD"
(I will NEVER make another Supernatural reference other than the fact that Death was the best character that was ever put into that series. That guy was the awesome.)

If you don't think that there's other life forms out there and we should be trying to find them as fast as possible there's a good chance you're one of those people who wanted to see obama's birth certificate or think that the earth was created 6000 years ago.

I'm sorry about that rant, but in case anyone was wondering WE ARE STILL THE ONLY COUNTRY WHO HAS WALKED ON THE MOON. Can we get back to priorites please?

Yes, I do own the complete Calvin and Hobbes. You should all read it. And no, I'm not actually sorry about ranting

Cue the people saying "why would we ever want to explore space" but for the same reason that we explore anything else. Humans, when we aren't trying to kill each other or have sex, are a pretty curious species. We know NOTHING about the house we live in. And if we ever hope to not be extinct (yes, extinct) in a few thousand years, we better get on figuring out what the hell we're doing.

Plus I mean, you lower the nerd concentration in the area by giving them all something to do. It's not like we can hold jobs requiring personal interaction. What would they all do, go work for DirecTV?

Actually, we might get some better service out of this or free countrywide wifi.

I'M LOOKING AT YOU, JAPAN

In the event any of you are still reading this (hi Jackie) and haven't read one of my other posts tagged with I'm Probably Rambling, I even did all the linking for you. Either that or read one of the OVER 200 posts we've written in the past few months.

Also looking at my posts not published yet, you should be hearing about the deep existential problems of the roller coaster that kills people intentionally and probably somthing about the Bruins or hockey in the coming day or so.