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Bush To Announce Manned Trip To Moon, Mars
edmunz writes "Foxnews just placed an article on their website saying that Bush is expected to make an announcement towards the middle of next week, proposing a manned mission to Mars as well as a return to the moon. Bush hopes to spark a renewed public interest in space exploration. No mission would happen any time soon, rather a preparation of over a decade would take place before the first men/women set out to explore Mars."
It's too bad there isn't a "Survivor" series in the works: "Who Will You Vote off the Planet?"
"Survivor Planet Wide Edition"
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Cue flood of "Bush Invades Mars" and WMD jokes in 3...2...1...
So did we find oil on the moon and on Mars or something?
"Hate bush so much but want to find hot alien babes someday..."*head explodes*
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
now bush plans to invade the moon and mars... tsk tsk tsk...
We could have made a little commado raid to Iraq, grabbed Sadam and spend the remaining $B179.99 sending him to Mars.
Halliburton has just started a new manned-space-exploration division.
Didn't you get the memo? "All these worlds are yours except Europa."
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This plan will be called "No Planet Left Behind".
It will be an unfunded mandate that NASA must establish a base on the moon and Mars, or lose its funding.
- The Sigless Wonder
The Democrats succeeded in convincing us that the solution to all problems is to throw more money at them, and that the measure of our concern over an issue is how much we spend on it. Plus, we Republicans are all old farts and realize that when the bill comes due, we'll be dead and the young liberal kids are going to be stuck with the tab, so IT'S PARTY TIME! Give me my medicare, free drugs, and senior citizen discounts!
I got first dibs on the cryo-unit next to Sigourney Weaver!
"HAL." :)!
"Yes Dave."
"Tell Houston we're a little behind."
Stuff that matters.
Someone told him that the Martians have WMDs and oil, right?
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(after Bush is re-elected or someone else is elected)
I think you mean "after Bush or someone else is elected."
You need to be elected at least once to be re-elected.
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You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
A new epoch is about to begin.
:)
Bring it on. This current epoch is getting old.
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Frink: Nice try floyd, but you were designed for scrubbing, and scrubbing is what you shall do.
Information points to Osama hiding out on Mars. Martians believed to be unwilling accomplices. Operation Martian Freedom is in the works.
Yeah, and then two of of these married couples who are not married could have a bastard son and name him Michael. Then, when the mission falls apart and everybody winds up dead, the boy will be raised by Martians and eventually return to Earth to bring us back to God, Martian style.
Fun with Anagarams! LADS HOST, SHALT DOS. HAS DOLTS. AD SLOTHS, HATS SOLD. ASS HO, LTD.
We have proof that the Martians have extensive Weapons of Mass Distruction programs that pose an IMMEDIATE threat to the US, therefore we must go there and disarm them before they can harm us.
Windows is not the answer.
Windows is the question.
The answer is "NO."
I don't know what Bush hopes to find on Mars, but he wants to go back to the moon for the green cheese.
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To my knowledge, nobody has built a functioning Crushinator yet.
I'm just taking a real wild guess here. You're not married, are you....
Wait, how does this work, we like Nasa, and like people who support Nasa, but we don't like Bush...I don't understand?
--Joey
Put 'em right beside the telephone sanitizers.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Good idea - you should write a book.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
It's refreshing to see great minds at work at Slashdot foreseeing future complications in space travel.
Unprofessional attitudes are certainly a threat to any mission's success. But never fear, with married couples coexisting in cramp quarters, such problems will easily be avoided. No arguments as to who prepares the freeze dried dinners. Issues of professional competitiveness will be done away with as more wholesome, productive concerns such as spousal jealousy or when Betty has her special time the month complete with a homicidal fit.
Well, at least we'll have the comfort knowing we'll have advanced technologies at our disposal such as plasma drive systems, antigravity, replicators, Vulcan science officers, and possibly even Seven of Nine.
Get out some, boy. That thing called reality is calling again.
As soon as you're 18, you're out the airlock!
...if he just condensed all his recent "victories" into one large slogan, ie
Saddam Hussein to pilot specially-crafted WMD to Mars, thanks to tax cuts and a reduced deficit! Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!
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Forget the flamewars! What about the smell! OW, THE SMELL!!!
He's run out of places in Iraq to search for all those weapon's of mass destruction.
George Bush + Linux = "I will not let information get in the way of the fight against Windows"
Okay, you first. I promise I'll stomach your sacrifice.
Rename "Europa" to "Hoth" - an ice planet people HAVE heard of !! It would fit in nicely with Bush' pressure on Australia to join the Star Wars program.
z3ngine.
PS: yes, I realise Europa is a moon and Hoth is a (ficticious) planet.
I therefore think I am.
get along or be married couples because you cant have both.
Well I doubt it'll happen soon, but I think he's referring to volunteers (and I don't doubt that there'd be *lots*). So we're not grabbing a bum off street and strapping a rocket to his ass and saying "have a nice life".
That said, I'm 23 now and *really* hope to see us set foot on another planet in my lifetime (whether it's under the Bush administration or anyone else). It doesn't get much cooler than that.
Bush has no interest in men on Mars, this is a political statement designed to make him look "presidential" in the JFK way
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Well, JFK didn't really mean it either. He had no interest in the moon, and it never would have happened except for one thing: he got assassinated.
So here's the deal. Those of us that actually want to see a Mars mission, let's wait. If Bush makes his announcement, we ice him a few months later. The nation can then spend the next few years trying to "honour the vision of a slain president".
And hopefully, it'll give you something to smile about, instead of whining about every possible thing you can think of
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
The reason the mission ended (and the reason that the Spirit and Opportunity missions will end, if everything goes well): dust gathering on the solar cells until they can no longer provide enough electricity for the vehicle to function.
So we can create robotic hands that search for life, but we can't create a robotic hand that would wash solar panels clean?
Or it that the reason why we have been searching for water?
Spain reluctantly sends Columbus to America.
No, they sent him to India. He just mistook America for it..
Perhaps the Mars explorers will bump into some other, currently unknown object, and colonize that with much resulting merriment.
It would be even better if both would be possible, although I do appreciate how difficult that would be to find!
and hastily write the Versailles Treaty which causes WWII
Yep, that about sums it up for WWII.
Gotta love the attention to detail on that conclusion.
You can't have my moon base! Where else could I hatch my diabolical schemes in peace?
If you try and take my moon base, I'll shoot you down with my "laser".
Does my bum look big in this?
I'd say we send him!
Now!
Please?
Repeat after me: We are all individuals
You are completely stark raving sane! How did you find your way to slashdot?
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
Yea, we really need cable internet here on Mars. You can't imagine how slow this internet connection is! And the phone bills I get from Marscom....
I have a life. I really do. I've just chosen to ignore it.
The greatest human endeavor in a five hundred years is about to be announced, and almost every message is griping about cost and how "impractical" it is.
What great human endeavor happened in 1504? Googles... Ah, this:
1504 - Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians.
Apparently you mean this is another case of an aggressive authority figure using smoke and mirror acts to impress Americans.
Good idea - you should write a book.
Nah, that's a stupid story. I predict that any book with that story would just be long, especially boring, and far more controversial than it's worth the time to read.
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No sarcasm intended, simple statement of fact. Stop five people on the street and ask them where or what Europa is. Go ahead, I'll wait.
While you're at it, ask 'em where or what Europe is. I bet you get the same answer...
I, for one, wouldn't want to make decisions by polling random people on the street.
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1. land and draw a line in the sand.
2. drill for natural gas and oil. No environmentalists here.
3. make a home movie proving we landed there this
time.
4. recruit all the old people from the past to run the campaign since we don't trust anybody that didn't do it before.
5. Build the spaceship by foreign companies and label it "Made in the USA".
6. import cheap martian workers to work in the US.
7. steal someone else's quote saying "one small step for man, and one giant leap for mankind!" while campaigning for votes.
The sitting President of the United States of America announces a manned-mission to the Moon, and a manned-mission to Mars, and the majority of SLASHDOT thinks this is a bad idea!!! AM I IN SOME EVIL ALERNATIVE DIMENSION WHERE EVERYTHING IS OPPOSITE OF WHAT IT SHOULD BE!? If so, WHERE'S ALL THE SEX!?!