XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism, talk.religion.misc
From: noone@home.com

"Pro-Humanist FREELOVER"  wrote in news:hno5fn
$jm4$1@news.eternal-september.org:

> ... The new alert comes days after a NASA astrobiology site
> reported that an invisible brown dwarf star nicknamed Nemesis
> may be circling the sun and causing mass extinctions of life on
> Earth every 26 million years. ...
>

Just as with every god ever invented by every clergy that ever existed,
every publicly-funded academic in every publicly-funded field in every
publicly-funded institution finds himself or herself trying to figure
out the easiest way to get access to the public treasury for as much of
its contents as they can carry off, as often as they can get away with
it.

The finest way ever invented, both by the thousands of religions and all
of academia, is to create periodic panics, real or imagined.  If there
is a real threat, it's like handing these people the keys to the master
vault.  If a real threat cannot be obtained, or if the threat is so
remote like this star "within the next million and a half years", the
treasury is not likely to open its checkbook wide enough or often enough
to create the desired new religion to support the academia desired by
its inhabitants, for a thousand years after those seeking grandeur and a
place in history have died.

In recent history, going backwards in time from today, we've seen this
phenomenon many times called many different "brand names" to "sell the
product", that keeps the money rolling in:

"Climate Change"
"Global Warming"
"Afghanistan - Taliban/terrorism/Bin Laden"
"Iraq - Weapons of Mass Destruction"
"Terrorism"
"9/11"
"HIV/AIDS"
"Global Cooling"
"Pollution"
"Ozone Hole over Antarctica"
"Nuclear Threats"
and a host of pending astronomic catastrophies from collisions and near
Earth encounters with other celestial bodies dating back a thousand
years.

Massive funding follows if the "message" can be told enough times to
convince enough people, especially ignorant politicians.

No human will ever be harmed by Gliese 710 crashing directly into the
sun.  No amount of money being DIVERTED away from real threats to
humans, like starvation, can change the outcome of the event that
matters not to humanity....so no funding should ever be granted to study
or find a solution to the non-existant problem created by the academia
who will live off it, in perpetuity.

The nonsense simply HAS to stop and those geniuses involved need to be
redirected to finding solutions to the more pressing problems of our
SURVIVAL!......especially NASA.

--
"iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!"

Larry

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