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ESA to Send Spacecraft to Venus
teeto writes to tell us The International Herald Tribune is reporting that the European Space Agency is planning to send a spacecraft to peer at Venus." From the article: "If the robot craft pulls off the complex maneuver of slowing down enough to swing into orbit, scientists hope it will help solve the mystery of how the shrouded, churning atmosphere of Venus formed and how it maintains the planet's broiler-like temperatures."
Doesn't anyone get the point? It doesn't matter for squat that by following ESA's suggestions, we have become such poor caretakers of the tree of space exploration that it has wilted and is sagging dangerously close to the ground. What's far more relevant is that juxtaposed to this is the idea that I find ESA's contrivances symptomatic of a dangerous but spreading mentality. I must stress that I am not attempting to suppress anyone's opinions, nor do I intend to demean ESA personally for its beliefs of how the human race should move forward. But I do aver that we must maximize our potential for effectiveness and success in combatting space exploration. Our goal must now be to halt the adulation heaped upon what I call illiterate people who claim to be "scientists".
I don't think the euro-freaks will get off the ground. Didn't they blow a rocket up over France or something a few years ago? They should try something simple like getting into orbit before trying to play with the big boys!
Seriously, If they can pay we should fly them there on the Shuttle. There's no point in two countries developing the same thing, and we already have all the technology to conquer space. We don't want to have cheese-eating surrender monkeys landing on our bases on Mars and stealing our land!
Blah blah Uranus, blah blah Klingons.