Astrobiology has a purpose?!?

So I know I'm not the only one amazed and quite frankly stunned that NASA has (at least according to them) Found life on Saturn's moon. Haven't heard about it yet? Here this link should catch you up to speedhttp://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html. So my question is this what do you think would/will happen if we do find life? Are we going to snuff it out and take over the moon so we have a place to go if we turn earth to a crap hole? Or do you think we could be peaceful and not try and dissect the new life under the microscope of NASA and the Government.

Sure there is no guarantee or even evidence to say that this is intelligent life, and I'm not saying that it is it could be just a few bacteria on a rock that has NASA so excited. Granted any new life found outside of earth is a feat in itself. But what do we do then? Just some food for though leave some comments if you really want to

The Liberal Arts Core

As a college kid towards the end of the sememster it is tough to actually not be stressed out. What with everything due just before Thanksgiving break and all that stuff that is due on the last 2 weeks of class. Now I understand that teachers want to give you as much time as possible in order to make your papers, projects and whatever else they consider a big asignment the best there ever was. This is fine for the classes that are your major because it’s what you are going to be doing when you get out in the real world and hey if you seem to hate it you probably should think about switching to a different major. But what about those classes the college forces you to take?

Sure they say it’s to make you a well rounded individual, but wasn’t that what highschool was for? Where you have to take X Y and Z in order to graduate  and if you didn’t pass so many standardized tests for each category (english, history, math ect.) you  would have to go back and take it again next year. Now in college you get to choose what it is you actually want to do; hence why you are going to college(hopefully).

 Why take a middle school math class just to satisfy your Math requirement that the school thinks you should have. If I couldn’t have passed math in middle school how the heck did I end up here in college? I mean come on! It’s just a huge waste of my time and yours and even the professors because heck if the student doesn’t want to be there and doesn’t want to learn (or go over stuff he or she already knows) then you can’t force them to. Liberal requirements are a joke. If I had wanted to know more about science I would have been a science major. I mean where the heck is bio going to help you if you are a english teacher? Or how is physics going to help if you are a comm major? These are things you probably will never in your life use in those professions and I’m sure there are plenty more examples. But my point is this why take pointless classes when you could use that time or slot in order to graduate on time, get a minor, or if you are lucky graduate early.

College is too expensive to be wasting your time in classes you won’t ever use.