The first color image from Curiosity.
Imagine standing on another world: I used to hope our generation would do it. Now I can still hope for my children or grandchildren.
But at least I have seen.
The most disturbing factoid that I learned on Tax Day was that the average American must now spend a full twenty-four hours filling out tax forms. That's three work days. Or, think of it this way: if you had to put in two hours per night after dinner to finish your taxes, that's two weeks (with Sundays off). I saw a talking head economics professor on some Philly TV channel pontificating about how Americans procrastinate. He was laughing. The IRS guy they interviewed actually said, "Tick, tick, tick." You have to wonder if Governor Ruth Ann Minner and her cohorts put in twenty-four hours pondering whether or not to give Kraft Foods $708,000 of our State taxes while demanding that school districts return $8-10 million each?
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this was the first image.
$4 Trillion
That's about $12,578 for every US citizen.
.... $18,433 for every US taxpayer.
2011 subsidies to AMTRAK
1.485 billion
$4.66 for every US citizen.
Cost of Curiosity ... 2.6 billion
$8.16 per US citizen