Dolphin says he will no longer post. Dolphin's gokunming posting behaviour was better than that of most of those who responded to him. He complained of personal attacks in his last(?) post. My sympathies are entirely with him, although I wish he were not so sensitive. This has nothing to do with my own very frequent and very fundamental disagreements with him.
Gee, congratulations folks. My thumbs-down to all involved - ridicule rather than reason, information, or anything else useful. Personalities and egos rather than pretended topics.
And I'm not pretending to be completely innocent of anything.
An astronomical monster grows in Guizhou
发布者@bilingualexpat:I wouldn't call trickle-down 'long-term foresight' - yeah, it happens, but it's pretty minor in comparison to both needs and the amount of capital that comes in.
@cloudtrapezer: the 'thing' I was referring too was the radio telescope, not the hyperloop, which I agree could be called a white elephant. I wouldn't call the radio telescope a white elephant', although its construction, despite the fascination of expanding knowledge of the universe, doesn't represent the very reasonable priorities of most people
Original watercolors for sale at charity auction for Heart to Heart
发布者Good, that. Guess it's not too easy to sell art in Kunming.
An astronomical monster grows in Guizhou
发布者This thing may well contribute to the solution of serious problems on earth, but I have a strong feeling that the really serious problems will be given a rather low priority by those who have the power/influence to assign priorities.
Report: Outside of humans, Chinese shrews only mammals to enjoy spicy food
发布者People are mammals too, but some climb down the tree and become rodents..
Report: Outside of humans, Chinese shrews only mammals to enjoy spicy food
发布者A squirrel is a mammal, of the rodent variety.