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President Bush To Call For Return To Moon?
Brian Stretch writes " According to the National Review: 'When President Bush delivers a speech recognizing the centenary of heavier-than-air-powered flight December 17, it is expected that he will proffer a bold vision of renewed space flight, with at its center a return to the moon, perhaps even establishment of a permanent presence there. If he does, it will mean that he has decided the United States should once again become a space-faring nation.' Here's hoping. The article also includes talk of nuclear engines and using the moon as a testbed for going to Mars."
Finally, an opportunity to live somewhere that doesn't suck... not yet anyway...
Bush Phones Home
Must ... cover ... up ... economy problems ... iraq problems ... re-election soon ...
1. There are weapons of mass destruction on the moon.
2. Saddam or Osama, or both, may be hiding in a moon crater.
3. The moon is made of oil.
4. Don't want those pinko commie Chinese taking over our moon.
5. Because the Mooninites are really funny and he wants to meet them.
We always knew Bush was looney... now he's just plain lunar.
YAY! Republicans have finally left that stodgy old '50s stereotype and stepped into the 60s!
My vote is to stick 'Dubya' into a spacecraft and fire it off toward the moon. If it hits, great... if not... who cares? Either way it's one less f***ing moron here on planet earth.
That's the best idea I've ever heard! Lets rocket Bush to the Moon! ;)
Coincidentally, I just rented a couple of the Space 1999 DVDs from Netflix and all I can say is this is a bad idea. Magnetic fields will hurt the lunarnauts' brains and make them attack the other colonists!
And need I mention the Terrible Space Secret? I think not...
I will say Space 1999 had the coolest looking ships of any series. They actually seemed to be well designed and functional.
It is time to liberate the people of the moon!
Not to mention that the moon people seem a lot less hostile than the martians. Damn martians keep shooting down our probes.
He's just figuring we might find WMD there.
America proposes to send just Bush to the Moon? I'm sure such a proposal would do much to re-establish cooperation with other countries.
Nothing but more lunacy from the Bush administration.
"Why not, budget's shot to hell anyway"
I've recently decided that large sums of money are simply imaginary. The united states owes hundreds of billions of dollars(trillions?). To whom? When does it have to be paid back? Imaginary. Keep on spending.
I'm a geek
You misspelled "redneck."
Now, where did I put my deed and lunar map...
If the moon flew planes into our skyscrapers, we would have people on it inside of a week. :)
We can't allow any possibility of radiation leaking into space.
Won't somebody please think of the children?!
And in inverse: The same could be said for Ann Coulter.
Only Coulter is a lot younger and more attractive than Molly Ivins.
The key to the enjoyment of pop music is to replace any instance of "love" with "C.H.U.D."
We must reach the moon first and build a military base to prevent terrorists from using it against us!!!
The Russians are experts at getting and staying in Low Earth Attitude. I might be wrong, but I don't believe that they ever even tested a large booter like the Saturn 5.
Well, they did test one, it just blew up on the launch pad.
The crack about Congressional Democrats would likely challenge a presidential declaration that the sky is blue.
In the interest of equal time I'd like to point out any such declaration would likely contain amendments authorizing Ashcroft to eat babies of suspected terrorists, promoting Justice Scalia to Pope of the One True Faith, and paying Halliburton $1 billion to stripmine Yellowstone and sell the tailings as a food additive.
Just type in "weapons of mass destruction" and hit "im feeling lucky", a windows error screen pops up with a few funny Bush bashing statements.
If the dollar is an "I owe you nothing", then the Euro is a "Who owes you nothing." - Doug Casey
I didn't know Halliburton built space rockets.
This scored a 5: Insightful?
"Houston Astros" : Uh, get your facts straight, buddy. Mr. Bush never owned or managed the Houston Astros. He owned (NOT managed) the Texas Rangers.
You must be new here.
Mmmm.. Donuts
Bush didn't steal the election, for Christ's sake, the Supreme Court did. As was befitting the fact that elections are not fucking football games the Florida Supreme Court happilly ignored both Bush and Gore and did what they felt would satisfy them that the law was being upheld. Sadly, the Supreme Court was under the impression that elections are fucking football games in which it is the responsibility of the candidate to fight his side and tough shit for the voters if he doesn't.
Since then, of course, the numbers of conservatives in the country have exploded (I think we're down to 20-something% willing to call themselves "liberal" now) resulting in the 2002 election, and the Democratic party has splintered into Clinton vs. DLC vs. Dean vs. confused conservatives (as much to blame for 2k2 as anything else) while the Republicans have transformed into fucking Voltron or something under DeLay, crushing their enemies and seeing them driven before them to the lamenting of their women.
Ultimately, though, I think that'll be what fucks the Republicans. They aren't made for unity. It burns up all the talk-radio power just holding them together at this point. Sometime soon, sooner if Bush loses, maybe 6 months later if he doesn't, the Christan/neocons are going to have to break with the normal Republicans. Sadly, I think the real Republicans are going to get the shit end of that deal. I just hope somebody's around to slow down the flying monkeys once they shed all those damn rational people that've been holding them down.
The old fashioned way...
Yeah, I was thinking about a large sling shot too. I mean, Wile E. Coyote used several of them and they worked just find. Not counting the several times he maimed himself, but I'm thinking all the bugs should be worked out.
Think about it...
Note, IANAALS (I am not an acme labs salesman)
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
Domestic problems (healthcare, SS, etc . . .) remain neglected.
Now you're just wrong about that!
Reichsminister John Ashcroft will not neglect to secure full funding for his SS.
Of course, to do this, some luxuries will have to be dispensed with, just for the duration of the war. Luxuries like that pesky 4th Amendment. And like "designated free speech zones" for demonstrators. After all, anyone who criticizes the government is supporting terrorism.
But be confident, Citizen! We're doing all of this to keep you safe during the Permanent Crisis. We'll even tell you know what opinions are safe for you to believe!
And of course, if you disagree, we'll be happy to record your objections. Just let us see your papers, Citizen!
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
Howdie,
Has anyone recently tried entering "miserable failure" in Google?
Can you tell me what happens?
Regards,
You don't need to see my
What do you mean, 'not real?'. Next you'll be telling me the Button Moon landing was faked.
And the more accurate usage is not :
"President Bush to Call for Return TO the moon";
its:
"President Bush to Call for Return OF the moon";
Whoever took the moon had better give it back, soon.
We NEED the moon. We need it for the children. This is a war - a war on terror. A war against whoever took the moon.
President Bush has called for a return of the moon - and with good reason!
How else are we going to govern the tides? I've done it by hand, and let me tell you, this "moon" thing they came up with is a lot better. I, for one, will be glad when it's were it belongs - back in the US, and out of the hands of terrorists.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Yeah but Coulter is really a man so it doesn't count
--Residential Interior Design
For too long, the moon and Mars have been a partnership of evil in today's solar system.
It isn't?
Damn and I was looking to living in an Arco...
Did you read the report on Slashdot a few weeks ago? It said that solar farms on the moon could increase the average income of a U.S. Citizen form ~$30,000 to ~130,000. So if they are right this could be VERY good for the poor and middle class. We just better make sure that its power AND its money flow down to Earth.
Never forget the lessons Gundam has taught us. Don't try and take advantage of people living in space, its easy to drop stuff from up there.
President Bush To Call For Return To Moon
I agree, he should really return to the moon ... and stay there for gods sake.
All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be
- Hate Bush
- Love space travel
What to do? What to do?Key to financial independence: Spend less than you earn. Save and invest the difference. Do it for a long time.
Funny, sounds like your talking about the Space Elevator or the LEO Crane!
If we want to get off this friken rock the Space Elevator is the only choice. 2 ton payloads, 8 climbers per ribbon 2 ribbons. A DEAL at 15 billion. So like I've said before...
HEY NANOFIBER ENGINEERS, STOP READING SLASHDOT AND GET BACK TO WORK!!!
Hey! us right wing nuts bash Bush also!
Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian.
Right. I'm thinking he's more likely to put missiles on the moon. Besides, doesn't the US have to go to the moon to prove it was there the first time? ;)
With all these cost-cutting measures available, we could have an American moonbase for a quarter the price!