A presidential pop quiz on energy, water, scientific integrity, oceans, and climate change 18

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   hapa Posted 6:19 am
   02 Sep 2008

   "grand challenges"?grand challenges.
   Make solar energy economical
   
   Provide energy from fusion
   
   Develop carbon sequestration methods
   
   Manage the nitrogen cycle
   
   Provide access to clean water
   
   Restore and improve urban infrastructure
   
   Advance health informatics
   
   Engineer better medicines
   
   Reverse-engineer the brain
   
   Prevent nuclear terror
   
   Secure cyberspace
   
   Enhance virtual reality
   
   Advance personalized learning
   
   Engineer the tools of scientific discovery
   it's the hammer show! all nails, all the time.

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   Bob Wallace Posted 7:06 am
   02 Sep 2008

   Not fair to McCain...Questions should be True/False.
   And Passing should be 50%.  Just so it doesn't mess up his 'D' average....

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   Pangolin Posted 7:16 am
   02 Sep 2008

   What grand challenges?Of the list that you have there hapa I find only a few that haven't already been answered. Implementation is another story.
   Thus the important items:
   
   
   Reverse-engineer the brain
   
   Advanced personal learning
   
   Enhance virtual reality (please don't, I have trouble with the dishes as is)
   
   Engineer the tools of scientific discovery.
   
   Advanced health informatics
   
   
   I think if we understood more about how humans actually worked we might have a better lever on solving some of the other problems. The most significant to my thinking are advancing personal learning and developing better and more accurate tools for certifying that learning.
   We waste huge amounts of time and money aquiring "degrees" which are really certificates of participation since they tell us nothing about how much information is retained or integrated into a logical matrix.
   Thus you can have a B.S. in biology and be a creationist at the same time. A complete waste of four years.
   
   
   
   Put the Carbon Back

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   GreyFlcn Posted 8:26 am
   02 Sep 2008

   CarefulCareful! with the phrase "Scientific Debate"
   It gets kind of annoying when people try to equivocate Political Debate, and Scientific Debate.
   Unlike Politics, Science often isn't dependent merely on your personal point of view. And John Q Public and TV Pundits aren't qualified to create their own scientific analysis.
   
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/01/arianna-spars-wi ...
   
   -David Ahlport

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   GreyFlcn Posted 8:31 am
   02 Sep 2008

   Comichttp://dericbownds.net/uploaded_images/Doonesbury.gif
   
   -David Ahlport

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   mreinbold Posted 3:34 pm
   02 Sep 2008

   ObjectionYou are leading the witness. 14 "science" questions biased to the leftist point of view. Nice try.

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   amazingdrx Posted 4:06 pm
   02 Sep 2008

   Any doubt?Obama didn't need to consult anyone or do any extra special  research to answer these questions?  No doubt.  
   He knew every answer off the top of his head.  Could McCain or Palin do that?
   Be honest or not in your answer mcbush-licans. It is of no consequence to those of us who know the answer.
   Obama can mop the floor with almost anyone on the planet on any subject.  Without an open book.
   Who else is ready to lead in this complex and dangerous situtation that the vast incompetence and corruption of the necon bushwacking has landed us in?
   
   http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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   amazingdrx Posted 4:13 pm
   02 Sep 2008

   And furthermoreCould any other national leader ever compete with Obama on sheer knowledge and reasoning power?
   Compare the respect that Obama would have in any meeting with any leader, to Bush meetings with other leaders.  Is it any wonder why we are slipping in terms of foreign policy, trade, and all other venues of negotiation?
   McCain's many slipups in simple concepts time after time, puts him in the mental mode of duuhbya.  No wonder he voted with the administration 95% of the time.
   
   http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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   hapa Posted 9:10 pm
   02 Sep 2008

   the right wing point of view being..."science is what we say it is."

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    mreinbold Posted 11:24 pm
    02 Sep 2008

    Sciene questionWhen does human life begin, Mr. Obama? Oh, ro answer that question with specificity is above your pay grade.

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    mreinbold Posted 11:26 pm
    02 Sep 2008

    Right wing point of viewGod knows you could use just a little of it on this site.

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    mreinbold Posted 11:29 pm
    02 Sep 2008

    ObamaIs there anything this man doesn't know? Truly, he is the Messiah.

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    amazingdrx Posted 1:18 am
    03 Sep 2008

    Hmmm"When does human life begin"
    We know when a lot of young lives end, prematurely.  When Rummi's schock and awe focused on the water supply, of the nation that didn't attack us on 9/11.
    Infants and children, purportedly so precious to the GOP, were doomed from water bourne illness, in the 100s of thousands by that move.
    Haliburton was payed with US tax dollars to fix the water supply.  Instead they supplied contaminated water to US troops and even electrocuted some soldiers with shoddy electrical systems in showers.
    Has any of the damage to Iraqi children's water supply been acomplished for the 100s of billions spent on rebuilding?  That's yet to be verified.
    As the great communicator said, "Trust but verify."  is trusting Bush administration crony contracting, without verification, a sound policy move?  Not so much.
    
    http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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    Biodiversivist Posted 1:52 am
    03 Sep 2008

    Good stuff as usual, Grey"Oh come on, not dismissing people who still think the world is flat is moronic ..."
    That's what I call "a public spanking."
    
    In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

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    vakibs Posted 2:42 am
    03 Sep 2008

    it is called science debate. not scientific debate @greyflcn
    There is a minor difference between the two. A science debate is just a political debate on matters that concern science and scientists.
    By the way, I am very impressed by the answers given by Obama. He gets a 100/100 from my point of view.
    By choosing a veep who promotes intelligent design, I think I can guess a thing or two about McCain answers. But let's wait and see what he says.
    Could any other national leader ever compete with Obama on sheer knowledge and reasoning power?
    Obama is a smart guy, but here you are getting too sycophantic.. amazingdrx.
    There is no shortage of PhDs amongst the world leadership. The prime minister of my country (Dr Manmohan Singh) was working as a professor in the London school of economics before he took office. Putin of Russia has a doctorate on energy economics (as mentioned in this article). There are several smart guys on the world scene already.. It is the turn of the USA to respond in kind.
    
    
    
    Let's think in terms of eco-dollars.

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    mreinbold Posted 3:30 am
    03 Sep 2008

    Hmmmamazingdrx, you did a pretty good job of reciting the liberal talking points. Alaways good to mention Halliburton, but you might throw in Cheney's name for good measure. Couldn't hurt.

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    Pangolin Posted 8:54 am
    03 Sep 2008

    Human life begins....When you are willing to have a funeral for the life that just ended. Since conservative communities aren't taking days off work to attend the funerals of miscarriages and stillbirths I have to assume that those aren't "human lives" since they aren't so honored.
    When you have a funeral for every menstruation of a married woman, since you have to assume that it could have been a fertilized egg not implanted, then we will know that life truly begins at conception for them.
    Until then it's all BS designed to sucker the stupid with baby-killer talk.
    
    Put the Carbon Back

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    mreinbold Posted 3:23 pm
    03 Sep 2008

    Pangolinclearly answering this question with specificity is above your pay grade, too.

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