science for sissies

Further proof that we still know so little about our own planet. Why bother spending billions of dollars trying to get to Mars when there’s plenty of kooky lifeforms at the bottom of our oceans?

I can’t remember his name, but an oceanic archaeologist recently said that one year of NASA’s budget would fund ocean research for 1,000 years. But it’s not in humankind’s nature to look down into the murky depths of our own world for knowledge, enlightment, and salvation. Instead we look out and up into the heavens, looking for something outside of our own world to give us an answer to that age old question: Is the grass greener on Gliese 581 c?

Instead of looking up into space in hopes of seeing into the eyes of God, I’d rather look down and see into the eyes of one of those barreleye fish. Because I have a feeling that we have a hell of a lot more in common with those fishbulb-headed freaks than we do with anything in the cosmos.

(via Huffington Post)

science for sissies