Thanks for doing the research, Z!

Thanks for the thought provoking poke Freedom, it got me thinking.

If you're interested I just posted on this very issue.

Thanks, again

http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/17....

Your right, of course.
And if given the opportunity to vote for it, I wouldn't.

But with all the money blown, I do get excited to see some small bit go to things like this.

And "small bit" is exactly right. The same $ amount spent on Science in a year is consumed by the welfare state in what... a week? A day? (I'm too lazy to figure it out right now. I should do that.)

But the amount makes no difference. You are 100% right - of course.

Sorry to be a wet blanket, but: Private or taxpayer funding?
Is the top of a volcano the best place to invest $1.4 billion ? (If privately funded, it's their concern, applause for them.)

Dr. Michio Kaku discussing LISA in 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZiROWO6i...

Well, OK, maybe not Howard Roark with all the philosophical trials and tribulations....

But certainly gifted and great engineers still live among us.

Mimi, I have no idea what to make of that.

I'm all for it, of course. No one loves scientific progress more than I. But the NASA page makes it sound like an established technology, whereas - as I understand it - we have yet to detect gravity waves.

http://www.nature.com/news/no-evidence-f...

Is LISA the next effort to do so?
That would be awesome - in the real sense of that word!

“I swear we live in the days of Science Fiction”
"We do! We do! "
No, I hadn’t seen the telescope, yet. That is so awesome! I’m all excited about LISA http://science.nasa.gov/missions/lisa/
LISA might lead to evidence of a possible multi-verse existence. I can’t wait!

Very high with crystal clear air.
Lotsa telescopes on the Hawaii Volcanos.

Appealing design.

Wondering why they didn't pick a less geologically active location however.

Beautiful too!

Nicely done.
Howard Roak is alive and well, somewhere.