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Defense Department wasted 100K on study of Klingons
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Klingons Credits: startrek.com
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The nation is headed for a fiscal cliff and is going broke, but a report by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) says the Defense Department spent nearly $100,000 to study Klingons, a fictional alien species, Breitbart.com reported Thursday.
According to Coburn's report, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, "paid nearly $100,000 for a strategy planning workshop on the 100 Year Starship project last year (that) included an interesting discussion involving the Klingons, a fictional alien species who were villains and then later allies of humanity in the Star Trek series."
According to Coburn's report, the workshop included something that would normally have groups like the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the ACLU up in arms.
"The session entitled 'Did Jesus die for Klingons too?' featured philosophy professor Christian Weidemann of Germany’s Ruhr-University Bochum who pondered the theological conflict to Christianity if intelligent life was found on other planets."
"This September," Coburn said in the report, "the 100-Year Starship organization spent $21,000 from the Pentagon to host another gathering for space travel enthusiasts."
According to the report, the focus of the meeting was to discuss ways to get a manned spacecraft to another solar system within the next century.
Breitbart's Jaci Greggs explained that the goal of the 100-year Starship Project is to "foster a rebirth of a sense of wonder" to "make interstellar space travel practicable and feasible."
"So far," Greggs said, "the 100 Year Project has consumed more than $1 million."
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