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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."
I vote George W. Bush! What about you?
Maybe the Pentagon saw a turban poking up behind a boulder in one of the Sprit MER pictures?
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
Soon to be announced from the white house and George bush in the comming months
- Going for forgive 3rd world debt
- Pollution is blocking the radiation from the sun spots
- no more taxes.. FOR ANYONE
- logging of all the trees in alaska to print money
- Free Beer
and finally just before november George W. Bush will announce to the world
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The More Knowledge you have the Luckier you Get- J.R. Ewing
Why stop at the losers? All people who enter American Idol should be sent into space as test crew for any new NASA spacecraft. Some may survive, let's hope many do not...
If I point out that you are incorrect, making me a foe does not make you any more correct.
I am really curious to see how many people will fall for that blatent election whoring.
This sounds very much like some "let's do like we did in those old good days, where we were so happy and we sent people to the moon". Never mind that those days were not so sweet, memory blurs the bad stuff.
I am not american, but should I be one, I would prefer a future candidate to speak about the big balance problem rather than some funky imaginary mission to mars. Specially since it's not the first time a US president smokes some crack, tells people "we go to mars", then do squat. Who did that first, Reagan, Bush Sr ?
I would like to believe that this sort of stupid blatant election whoring only happens in a corrupt democracy like the USA has become, but hey, democracies in Europe are as corrupts. And even if they don't speak about Mars, Europe's policians are very good too with election whoring.
Damn it, I'm ashamed that democracies have come this low. Chirac declaring war on unemployment, Bush talking about Mars, Blair struggling with public opinion about his lies, is there still a country where candidates are serious and not stupid whores ? They look like fools trying to get the Lie Of The Day that will make them more popular with some uninformed and unintereted elector.
Are we so dumb that we let our democracies become that ?
I really feel insulted when they try tricks like the three mentionned do.
Why do we need to spend billions and trillions of dollars, just so that people can dream the "dream" and be inspired? This goes WAY beyond science or investment - this is ridiculous. Science much better served by deciding what we want, sending probes, deciding if anything useful can be gained by sending live human bodies to a hostile world, then deciding the best way to spend resources. This plan is like saying we should build open-air condos on the Mars without even thinking of terraforming it yet. Mars holds far more mysteries than what's going to happen when a size-9 space boot displaces some dust.
Yes - we should develop technologies that will eventually allow us to have longer-term access to extra-atmosphere environments, etc. But that's just a small part of the research we should be doing... instead, we're going to end up spending almost all our research expenses on doing exactly what is needed for this trip (which other have mentioned is almost all old technology), and even further ignoring almost all other research avenues.
If you want an adventure of the imagination - try imagining bigger! This is a prime example of how a mild imagination will make a trip to Mars seem like the pinacle of human possibility.
Ryan Fenton
P.S. Can you imagine the backlash from those opposed to science-related philosophies if this mission ends up as dissapointing, much less a large failure. "Man on the moon" was a spectacular achievement, what happens when "Man on Mars" ends up a joke? Not intending doom and gloom - just an issue of priorities with our explorations and asperations.
You're not pay attention. This is not even remotely something Dubya cares about, or probably even fully understands.
No, as with everything in the Dubya's life these days, it's either a noble goal that Congress won't permit to happen calculated for maximum political gain, a neocon imperialist fantasy, or a baldfaced lie, often all three and worse. That's what happens when you don't think for yourself, fail to read books or newspapers or even magazines, and instead filter everything in your worldview through the bent minds of frothing religious lunatics. Take heed, and watch for Ashcroft's brown shirts in the meantime.
Tinfoil hat? No, thank you for asking, I've just been reading the news reports for the past four years.
Q: What do you call 10 gay niggers on Mars?
A: A problem.
Q: What do you call 100 gay niggers on Mars?
A: A problem.
Q: What do you call 1,000 gay niggers on Mars?
A: A problem.
Q: What do you call all the gay niggers on Mars?
A: Problem solved.
I guess Bush hasn't heard of this "budget" thing, because last I heard we were running a deficit of $400 billion a year. The last thing we need is more spending. I'm really disappointed by the Slashdotters that think "That's cool!!" without any idea of the money involved. I hope you don't run your personal lives that way. If there are people that are excited about this they should raise their own money to do so. Bake sales for Mars are fine with me, but don't ask for my money. "Adventure" is not a sufficient reason put the country into even worse debt than we are already in.
Anything is small compared to US defense budget ..
Lately, it would be more appropriate to call it the US ATTACK budget
to answer to the one that says 20 Billions is a lot, well, not exactly, compared to the 180 Billions the war on Iraq has required so far.
TBD:
1. Plant flag
2. Setup embarkation office and make sure any Chinese or European visitors leave fingerprints and photo
3. Ensure that there will be no queing in front of the toilet by foreign passengers while flying over American territory (Moon, Mars, Universe)
4. ?
5. Profit!
605413? Yes, it's a prime.
What makes you think the votes will be counted this time?
I know this is a troll.
The Economy 'Sucks' (Actually the growth in the last few quarters has been better than at any time during the Clinton admin) because of 9/11, Corporate scandles (which happend under Clinton but were caught under Bush), and outsourcing which has to do with the weak trade barriers that both parties put into place.
Lets see what the taxcut has done... The amount of Tax receipts pulled in by the US Government was 1,827,454 Million Dollars last year it was 1,853,173 Million, oh yea that tax cut killed our revenue (and this was after 9/11 and the economy that 'sucks'). Now where any problem lies it with the fact bush spends money like a liberal (education is more than 65% up under him, the only things down is transportation. If Bush did not spend money like Ted Kennedy on a bender the problem of deficits would not be there..
JFK committed America to landing a man on the moon within a decade, and sure enough, it happened. Now, GWB is making a similar claim. But there's no analogy. The space race was initiated in the 60's to beat the Russians in the Cold War. We don't have that war now. Today's war is the so-called "war on terror." And the enemies in this war are generally people sick of our meddling in the affairs of their oil-rich countries. The solution? A visionary president right now would commit us to developing complete energy independence in the next decade. Beat terror by getting the heck out of the oil business. Save the earth while your at it.
There's nothing so refreshing as a right winger talking about how illiterate the unwashed masses are. Anyone who reads what this moron posts will laugh because he can't usually spell things correctly, or use punctuation properly.
This is America, damnit. Speak Spanish!