Depends on your definition of important dunit.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:48, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

My opinion is that a city on the moon is more important than starving children in africa.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:52, Reply)

I don't believe you.

( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:53, Reply)

Well it's true, the progress of the species is more important than peoples lives.
The idea that we can't do anything until all the worlds problems are sorted out is also a bit specious.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:58, Reply)

Racism!

( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:01, Reply)

The moon landing was basically the start of the enviromental movement as well.
You can never tell what offshoots there will be from these massive events.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:03, Reply)

You're scaring me

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:06, Reply)

The earth won't last forever, we've eventually going to either have to move on or die.
edit: and I don't mean by the millions or billions, I mean everyone and everything gone.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:17, Reply)

When you say 'we', you're talking about people in the future
We'll all be dead anyway.
Things die. That's life.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:19, Reply)

Things die. That's life.
So who gives a fuck about dying babies eh?
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:21, Reply)

Ha!

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:26, Reply)

I don't.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:29, Reply)

Try telling that to the woman whose baby is dying in her arms.
We should fix this place first before we go off looking for adventure.
( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:10, Reply)

See what you're doing here is thinking that it's a choice between the two.
It's not don't be stupid.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:15, Reply)

Of course it's a choice.
Don't YOU be stupid.
( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:21, Reply)

Yes those rocket scientists and material engineers should be farming crops in the desert.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:22, Reply)

I'm talking about the billions of dollars spent in funding the space missions.
Are you telling me this is spare money the government has lying around?
( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:29, Reply)

regardless of where the money is coming from
if they don't use it for space they aren't going to use it to solve the 3rd world's problems.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:30, Reply)

You can't just throw money at the problem,
once again don't be stupid.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:32, Reply)

It's not 'a problem' as you put it.
It's a fucking disaster.

If the governments used a tenth of the brain power and money that they throw at shiny metal toys then we'd be on the way to eradicating child poverty. I'm all for scientific discovery and invention but not at the expense of everything else.
( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:38, Reply)

Balls.
Fixing the problems of poverty in Africa could be done very simply.
The Western governments could choose to stop raping the African economy any time they chose to. It has nothing to do with the question of a CITY ON THE MOON.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:45, Reply)

And where do you think some of that money that the goverments take from the third world countries goes?

( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:48, Reply)

Not to science and technology development
you retard.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:50, Reply)

How can you possibly know that for sure.
You pillock.
( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:52, Reply)

Why are you posting here while there are starving babies in Africa?

( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:53, Reply)

I don't like the heat.

( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:55, Reply)

Moats for MPs.
To be serious it mainly goes into the pockets of shareholders of big companies.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:50, Reply)

The African people
rape them-fucking-selves*. They've huge natural resources but so many of their governments are crooked beyond belief these resources don't benefit the people. And don't give me the 'shit deals done with Westernn governments' shit either. Shit deals, done with their own shit crooked governments. Look at Rhodesia. CUNTS.



*and other people, such as charity workers. The FUCKING CUNTS.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:51, Reply)

Couldn't agree more.
The documentary I watched about Liberia the other night was reeling off a load of statistics, such as 80% unemployment rate etc. So, with that in mind, why don't some of the unemployed set about digging some fucking latrines instead of pulling their knickers down and shitting where they stand.

All we need is a few soft focussed shots of babies with flies on their face, heart strings tugged? Farting strings plugged, more like it.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:07, Reply)

Realistically though
without first eradicating corruption which is obviously inherent in many African governments, it'd be impossible to eradicate child poverty.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:46, Reply)

the only way to eradicate corruption in Africa
is to eradicate Africans in Africa.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:25, Reply)

We spend far more on overseas aid
than we do on any government backed science and technology
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:47, Reply)

So we give up and go to the moon then?
All I'm saying is that Obama seems to have his priorities in the right order which is about time for an American president.
( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:52, Reply)

That may be what you're saying now,
it wasn't what you were saying at the start of the argument.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:54, Reply)

I was trying to make it simple for you to understand.

( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:57, Reply)

Yes, because I'm very ignorant of how the world works,
as proven in this thread.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:58, Reply)

I know how the world works.
I'm saying it works incorrectly.

You're saying this is how the world works and there's nothing we can do about it so let's all just enjoy ourselves with a trip to the moon.
( girlinthehole, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:00, Reply)

They'll get custard on their shoes

(TheColonel, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:29, Reply)

Well played.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:31, Reply)

Damn you, beat me to it

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:44, Reply)

I wish I could tell on my phone
What this is responding to...
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:13, Reply)

PsychoChomp, 13.22.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:21, Reply)

You make it sound like
a verse from the Bible of Chomp
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:52, Reply)

it's not a choice in the slightest
they are two different choices, and the governments of the world are already choosing not to help the starving babies in Africa, so they may as well decide to build a city on the moon.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:24, Reply)

Yes, because this is an either/or situation.
America can only do one thing at a time.
( Dr Preference AjcuiVd289, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:15, Reply)

Tend to agree
Not the Moon-City as such, but what it represents/is part of. The drive to look to the future and plan ahead to take the human race places it has never been, to boldly go...

not that people dying here/now isn't important, but it's a symptom of many, many fucked up aspects of politics, how people react to their fellow man and shit like that, it would, in my uneducated opinion take massive amounts to fix properly, and actually a Moon-City is probably easier and in the long run more important.

Plus, Moon-Cities are like way cool and stuff.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:58, Reply)