Glenn Urges Direct-to-Mars Trip

Geno Z Heinlein writes "Reuters reports that astronaut John Glenn testified March 4 before the President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond, saying that Bush's plan 'pulls the rug out from under our scientists' and that 'It just seems to me the direct-to-Mars [route] is the way to go.' Referring to the Moon as an 'enormously complex' Cape Canaveral, Glenn said that NASA might spend all the money getting to the Moon and never get to Mars."

Comments

Re:Hero Gone Politician

[Bendebecker]

Better than Gus Grisom who is now just another speck of dust in Cape Caneveral. At least they got a much better actor to play him then that dude they got to play Glenn. I think we have to remember, this dude and the others had the guts to get on top of a rocket that could possibly explode and to go into space knowing the probablity of dying was only slightly lower than the probablity of sucess. But they all did it anyway. They had guts, something the modern space program is completely lacking. Scientists are great to send into space, what with triple phds and stuff, but they don't seem willing to take the risks normal ppl would. Remember the geeks in high school who had so little guts that they were scared shitless of even talking to a girl. Now we got them in space. We need to get the ppl who had the guts back up there to takes the risks.

Re:I fear that's the whole point

[torpor]

Yeah, those peace mongers won't give a shit what we do to the moon. *rolls eyes*

Have you ever heard of Greenpeace protesting about whats going on in Area 51?

No. Because they don't know.

You think that condition is going to get any better when there's a base on the dark side of the moon, protected by "Military Secret" doctrines of the Pentagon?

No.

Anyone that thinks the primary motive for going to the moon is military dominance should put away their UFO cover up books and read a history book instead.

Who said it was a primary reason? I'm only suggesting that there are 'good reasons' for doing so, were one to be militarily inclined.

There are just as many good reasons to have an open colony on the Moon, populated by members of every country on the planet. Hell, maybe "Moon City" would be the ultimate peace weapon, eh? An International, Human Presence of such nature would probably be the best War Deterrent one could create ... but do you think anyone in current power has the balls to attempt such a thing?

Nope. Too busy living their one little life, making historical events for themselves ... swimming in hubris.

As for Bush, I do hate him. I think he's scum, and I think that Americans who support this man are ignorant and, above all, disgustingly decadent in the face of an International reality.

I am slowly formulating the opinion that Ignorant America deserved 9/11, whoever really perpetrated it, for letting Bush hi-jack their government, letting him wreck the Kyoto accords, letting him foist un-fathomable depravity on his subjects in the name of Big Business and Special Interest. 3000 New-Yorkers died. Big Deal. Bush was the worse disaster to happen to the USA.

I've seen worse events than 9/11 occur in smaller states, where the population recovered quickly, and I can list a number of State Systems wherein the populace would never have used such an incident as a justification for futher agressions against ones fellow man like Bush and his CFR friends have done ...

Huge economic gains, confidence, nationalism, technological leaps ...

That's a good thing, is it?

My, how Americans love their television-fed stigma, it seems that it gets them out of bed in the morning. Good for the hubris sores I guess ...

Re:Muh?

[torpor]

I think you're about to discover that the Pentagon committed a gross failure by allowing those planes to hit their targets.

They could've taken them out, they had fighters scrambled, but they didn't. Why?

To me, that's a failure to keep your hill safe from moles.