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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

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Odin2005

(53,521 posts)
Mon Aug 27, 2012, 01:04 PM Aug 2012

The anti space exploration people are so predictable. [View all]

I should have known making a post in the wake of Armstrong's death about why we weren't colonizing the solar system would have brought out the Luddites and misanthropes and turned the thread into a 500-post epic flame-war filled with ignorance and allusions to "Avatar". Why do I always make such threads hoping for educated and reasonable discussions?

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Uh........because this is the internet? dimbear Aug 2012 #1
Telling the truth is not misanthropy McGee from Muskogee Aug 2012 #2
We're coming for you! Dr. Strange Aug 2012 #3
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