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Funding Promised for Trips to Moon, Mars

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the believe-it-when-i-see-it dept.

image77 writes "NASA's new administrator, Michael Griffin, and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Tuesday the space agency will have the necessary funding to send astronauts back to the moon and to Mars. Delay states "We will provide the funding necessary to get us where we want to go.""

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  1. Re:who's not reading between the lines here? by Naikrovek · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I doubt he's this smart, but it might not be his idea.. either way DeLay is probably the most evil character in government today.

  2. Funding by Threat of Violence by Le+Marteau · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    We will provide the funding necessary to get us where we want to go. ... by forcing other people to give us money on the threat of sending armed men to take them to jail them if they don't 'pay their tax' to fund our fun.

    And they call ours a civilized country.

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  3. Failed sarcasm by MyNymWasTaken · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I can't tell if you're a supporter trying to be sarcastic, or a detractor trying to be sarcastic.

    Try reading Johnathan Swift's A Modest Proposal.

  4. hmm by distantbody · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "...President Bush's vision..." BAHHAHAHAHAH-HA!...HA!

    Need I say more?

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