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[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Pyrotex

I'm telling you guys, this is the most important presidential election I have seen in my lifetime (with the possible exception of Kennedy vs. Nixon). There is probably more at stake on this one than for any election in the 20TH Century. There is more to win and WAAAAAAYYYY more to lose if we wind up with the wrong person in charge.

We could well see the end of the "American Experiment", our citizens slowly retreating back into a state of ignorant and uneducated bliss, unable to distinguish between superstition and knowledge, between astronomy and astrology -- gullible victims of every "fat-burner pill", "perpetual motion machine", "herbal cure" and "aura manipulation" con that comes down the pike. Our technological infrastructure will slowly fall apart, and we will sink down into tribalism, book burnings and petty crusades.

And the future colonists on Mars and the Moon will all speak Chinese.

Most of the time these days I would feel lucky if there were any space colonists at all As long as it's a human language I feel it's a plus. But you are correct and not just because of the erosion of science but the religious right seems to be convinced the Earth is the only place we should be and that when god comes back all the stuff we've destroyed will be brought back and fixed. Wow, dinosaurs in my back yard! This BS must end with out a religious war that will kill us all.