08-24-2006, 02:08 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/24...topstories
If you ask me, it's just like a lot of reasearch, perpetuating the need for their work and writing themselves into job security.
So does this mean that all the models and maps of the solar system in every elementary school class now needs to be replaced? And a new round of science textbooks are to be produced? I remember back in my early elementary days (late 80's and early 90's) still having world maps that had not been updated since the division of Russia. Whenever we looked at the map the teacher would remind us that it was no longer the USSR, but Russia and several other new countries.
If you ask me, it's just like a lot of reasearch, perpetuating the need for their work and writing themselves into job security.
So does this mean that all the models and maps of the solar system in every elementary school class now needs to be replaced? And a new round of science textbooks are to be produced? I remember back in my early elementary days (late 80's and early 90's) still having world maps that had not been updated since the division of Russia. Whenever we looked at the map the teacher would remind us that it was no longer the USSR, but Russia and several other new countries.
