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This is just so obscene and wrong 2

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When we have schools across the country struggling to make ends meet, spending $60 million on a high school football stadium is insane. 

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America's economic competitors must be delighted when they hear of our $60 million high-school football stadium. 

Everything’s Bigger In Texas, Especially This $60 Million High School Football Stadium | NewsFeed | TIME.com
High school football in Texas is no joke, especially in the Dallas suburb of Allen, which just spent $60 million on a lavish new stadium for its high school football team.


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A lot today's high technology evolved out of the space program of the 1960s but…

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A lot today's high technology evolved out of the space program of the 1960s but in many respects it has accelerated far beyond what gets used in space now. It turns out that when building the Curiosity rover that recently landed on Mars, the engineers opted for carefully tied knots instead of the zip ties favored by most of here on Earth. 

It turns out the the engineers developing spacecraft tend to take fairly conservative approaches to design and it actually makes a lot of sense. If you are developing something that is going to be shot tens of millions of miles into space where there is no opportunity to repair problems, you do whatever you can to avoid potential problems in the first place. 

Knots on Mars! (and a few thoughts on NASA’s knots)
Knots on Mars! (and a few thoughts on NASA’s knots)


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