…are so stupid.
Read this girl’s column talking about regulating the new Goldilock’s planet. 20 lightyears away and it’s already starting.
Actually, I always thought it would be a good idea to take a certain segment of the human population and put them in a particular island or a planet, where they can all regulate each other for all eternity.
Like the empty cities in China, I would love for scientists and social engineers to design settlements on the new planet, only to find that no one wants to live there.
Well, except for all the resources devoted to such an endeavor. We’ll need to be careful with our resources if our planet is dangerously overpopulated and suffering 130 degree days in the winter.
She thinks that the Milky Way is a star system.
"Actually, I always thought it would be a good idea to take a certain segment of the human population and put them in a particular island or a planet, where they can all regulate each other for all eternity.’
LOL… I think we’re already there and the best option at this point is to escape ourselves.
Another awesome thing at school just happened last week when our professor made us write ‘thank you’ notes to the school of life sciences because they (?) bought our entire class t-shirts that no one has been wearing.
My note said: “Thank you for spending my tuition money in a way I didn’t want you to.”
The force is strong with this one !
Gee, that is horrible. The Milkyway is no stellar system, let alone our solar system, it is the galaxy we live in. The newly discovered planet is assumed to be in the habitable zone but has yet to be confirmed. The planet nicknamed “Goldilocks” is a planet discovered in the 90s. It was then thought that it may be in the habitable zone of its star but later, more precise research showed that it is in a highly eccentric orbit around its star and thus not habitable. Besides, that one is 80 lightyears away from us as opposed to 20. By the way, it assumed that the planet, Gliese 581 g, is bound in rotation, what means that always the same side faces its star, so that one side gets heated up insanely and the other is freezing cold. Because of that I do not really think that there is any possibility of life. The reason this finding is interesting is that it was found so soon and close. This gives hope that lifebearing planets are not uncommon und our galaxy, let alone in our universe.
And not to comment on the rest of that … column.
I think space exploration is very important. I’m a huge fan of Carl Sagan and wished he could have lived to see humans, at least, reach Mars or something (maybe not even in my lifetime )
Regardless, my solution for space travel? Privatize it! Actually it seems as if private space travel companies are extremely more efficient than NASA has ever been and it’s interesting to read about them.
Eric, that is one of the best quotes I’ve ever heard. So creepy sounding and literature-like.
bump for being annoyed again.
This kid just asked me why I hated government, and I told him I couldn’t possibly answer that question within a few sentences. Then I asked him what he thinks the government does well, and he said:
“But since you ask, it does the things that people have no incentive to pay for (the free rider problem). Like public services/goods/safety. It creates money and regulates t.he economy to ensure fair trade.”
That makes me so goddamn mad. He says that public services fixes the free-rider problem? And then the government creates money… as in wealth. What do you do with this kind of person? This was what I responded:
“The free rider problem is created by public services/goods because people use them and don’t pay for them. If people have no incentive to pay for something, then they don’t want it. And you can’t regulate the economy to make it fair or free. It’s those things by itself. And it creates paper money which just inflates. It doesn’t create wealth at all.”
But, seriously, is it best to ignore these people or what? His mindset is completely ass-backwards and it annoys me so much.
sounds like a chop to the throat is all you can do at that point…
Funny thing is, I thought that was your response. All of the arguments he made above can easily be seen as negatives of government intervention. (According to mainstream notions of ‘fair trade’)
I’m seriously considering it.
Haha, it would fit. I’ve been reading his answer over and over again and can’t understand why he talked about the free rider problem in the context of how public goods/services stops it from happening. Either (1) he has the definition of ‘free rider problem’ completely backwards or (2)… I don’t know. If he really thinks that the government should buy things people have no incentive to buy, the government may as well purchase me up a bunch of Justin Bieber concert tickets.
That’s the cognitive dissonance of someone who has never critically though about the state.
They claim there is an externality. Then they claim the state is necessary to address that externality.
By creating another, or embellishing the previous, externality.
It’s sorta like saying, “The house is on fire, don’t bring me water, I need more gasoline.”
I feel like I have read the above post before.
If we ever get there, I too suggest “regulating” that planet. However, I suggest we completely ban government.
My first thought upon reading that article was that she couldn’t be serious and had to be writing this as a parody. However, after clicking on her name and reading some of her other articles, I think she really is as stupid as she appears.
The original post, the kid’s first response, or liberty student’s post directly above yours?
She is that stupid. The opinion section of our newspaper is pathetic. If you just read her column on the volume regulation bill, that should give you the basic idea of the grand thought patterns flowing through to student readers. I’ve been writing the phrase “the State” so much more in my newspaper columns without realizing it since joining this site. Thanks, Mises.
hi,
“She thinks that the Milky Way is a star system.”
She must be a huge fan of Alice..(Alice In wonderland–Novel)
In that novel, one story, it is written…that
Alice grew larger when she ate the cake? … The bright stars of the Milky Way lie in intertwined spiral arms. … as stars and star systems are born and die, often violently. … we must now accept a more humble place in the grand scheme of things. …
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