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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."
Where is Bush, or Congress, or the Senate, or any federal elected or unelected official granted any power to do this in the Constitution? This is complete cronyism focused on a few priviledged companies who are close to those elected. Anyone who doesn't vote NO on this idea is just as guilty.
I have a business to run here, actually two. I have bills to pay, right here in the Chicago area. I have some great ideas that I'd like to risk my money on, in order to help myself and my family. I have some long term things to purchase that will make my life better. I could care less about Mars or the Moon or higher orbits. None of that affects me, except in a negative way.
These tyrants (Bush, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, whatever Statist is focused on by the media) want to take YOUR money and give it to their friends. Don't believe it if you think they will do exactly what you want them to do with Mars. It will be immensely over budget. It goes directly against the Constitution's limit on federal government's powers. It will continue the slippery slope towards more lost freedom.
I'm sick of it. My money is MY MONEY. Your money is YOUR MONEY. The feds have no power to spend it unless we continue to allow Statists in office. None of them care for you, your family, your community, or your morals and values.
This is bad for capitalism, and bad for almost every citizen except for those few who directly work for a company involved in this scheme.
you're aware that the UN was started by the US, right? And that we're its primary financer? And that the building is like...in NYC?
And you're aware that this all means crap as long as you don't play by the rules? If you choose to ignore the UN whenever you see fit, why not forget about it and dismantle it? Countries can meet whenever they like with whoever they like and do whatever they want. Why have all those councils and votings if no one does what is decided there anyway?
Its all hypocracy anyway.
Get a clue. Go to high school, you uneducated trailer trash piece of shit. You might actually learn something besides flag waving and masturbating on Bush propaganda. See, if you were only polluting and ruining your own country, I'd say let the idiots drown in their own shit. But unfortunately, your actions have consequences for the whole planet.
The promoters of it care for nothing other than widening the trade deficits in the US, bleeding us dry until we collapse. All about jealousy.
Never mind. You're going down someday anyway. Nothing is forever.
The Moon would act as a great shield, true. But your baseline would only be the Lunar diameter. Making radio 'scopes and positioning them around Earth orbit would also be a worthwhile project.
... perhaps resolution of individual planets in other systems. {pant, pant}
Myself, I'm jonesing for placing a large optical scope at the solar focus position, which is about 3 times farther from the Sun as our farthest probe (Pioneer 11?). The massive amplification power at the focus (provided by the Sun's mass bending an enormous volume of light around itself) should provide incredible visible observations
[You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]
What's wrong with Cuba??
;)
I was just there... great place! Nice weather, wonderful people, no Americans.
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