[QUOTE=David Jamieson;711628]now now, an art degree is valuable as is astronomy or any other.
why be down on an arts degree? it’s probably the most well rounded degree you can get and you’ll find taht more people in positions of management possess a liberal arts degree than any other type.
of course, there is a shift towards the mba following that these days, which of course makes sense seeing as business and science are two worlds of thinking apart.[/QUOTE]
i never said liberal arts. liberal arts is useful. im tlaking an art art degree/ its useless. i know a couple people with them and they are working at a grocery store. astronomy is almost useless, can get a cool job if you want.
[QUOTE=Shaolinlueb;711637]i never said liberal arts. liberal arts is useful. im tlaking an art art degree/ its useless. i know a couple people with them and they are working at a grocery store. astronomy is almost useless, can get a cool job if you want.[/QUOTE]
You know nothing about astronomy. A degree in astronomy or astrophysics, is a degree in physics. You can get many jobs in science and technology with that degree. Astronomy is not just looking in a telescope. That is a small part of an astronomer’s job.:mad:
[QUOTE=Shaolinlueb;711594]i feel Asian Studies degree are about as valuable as astronomy degrees and art degrees…
go back to college and keep believeing what those books tell you. :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
Theses days, an Asian Studies degree is actually pretty valuable. China is the number 2 political and economic power in the world now. Korea is a hot topic. Both govt. and industry are scrambling to keep up to speed on the region.
[QUOTE=Flying-Monkey;711642]You know nothing about astronomy. A degree in astronomy or astrophysics, is a degree in physics. You can get many jobs in science and technology with that degree. Astronomy is not just looking in a telescope. That is a small part of an astronomer’s job.:mad:[/QUOTE]
like i said, useless unless its like star trekk out there.
That struck me as either a really dumb, really ignorant or maybe just a really sarchastic thing to say but at the time you posted it I couldn’t think of the counterexamples off the top of my head and didn’t feel like googling but since a tangentially similar subject came up on another forum today and in a way that was relevant, I’m going to cut and past a parts of 2 different peoples posts there in response to the idea that astronomy is useless “unless its like star trekk out there.”
…high energy physics is practical . . . what I mean is stuff like: atomic clocks have allowed GPS to come about which in turn has allowed people have those cool GPS units that tell them where the nearest Starbucks is …
- Fission reactors which supply over 16% of the world’s electricity
- X-ray imagining used everyday in hospitals around the world
- computed tomography (CT) scanners
- heck many offshoots of nuclear medicine in general used to detect cancers/tumors, bone fractures, blood clots, heart conditions, internal bleeding, etc, etc, etc…
And before you get your proverbial panties in a bunch, be aware that high energy physics IS part of astronomy, a big part.