<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Dec 28, 2019, at 10:06 AM, John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 10:13 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Talking about politics as an idea or a strategy isn’t the problem. For example, there are politics of the Boeing v. SpaceX bit. Discussing that is fine, within reason, I think.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>But “big P” politics, as you put it, is boring</i></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">So you think talking about trivialities is OK but not anything big and important or heaven forbid, controversial. Sounds familiar, spoilt teenage children sometimes don't want to study math or science</font></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Space X and Boeing going to space are trivial, glad to know where you stand.</div><div><br></div><div>As far as 30m telescope, right now it’s dead in the water. But so was Dakota Access Pipeline, and look where we are now. There are other possible sites for this telescope for the telescope in the northern hemisphere as well, which you have also mentioned. </div><div><br></div><div>Not all is lost. Just delayed. It’s lamentable. The telescope could probably be finished by now. But just because it isn’t being built right now doesn’t mean it never will be. </div><div><br></div><div>Probably like the pipeline, they just have to wait for interest to die down. </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> And I never called it "big P politics".</font></div></div></div></div></blockquote>> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The P word</span><div><br></div><div>I don’t understand how saying “those barbarians!!!1!1!” for months, or “Trump!!!1!” for over a year are not trivial. We already get it and we already agree with you. You just keep getting upset because we won’t repeat you like a robot. </div></body></html>