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The New Moon Race
An anonymous reader writes "News.com has a pictoral and editorial look at the quickly-heating second race to the moon. A Japanese orbital probe is expected to reach orbit of the satellite sometime today, just one of the dozens of projects now aiming to exploit Earth's orbital partner for scientific and business gains. 'The next lunar visitor may come from China. The Chang'e-1 spacecraft is scheduled to lift off near the end of October. It is slated to study the moon's topography in 3D and also investigate its elements. Chang'e-3 is a soft lunar lander that is scheduled to fly in 2010 ... If all goes as planned, the United States and India will have astronauts on the moon by 2020, China by 2022, and Japan and Russia by 2025.'"
This is a dupe, the orginal article is from 1960.
Maybe the original set is really really dirty.
Von Braun's body lies a moulderin' in the ground so we aint got the moon no more.
The current Administration insists that it is physically impossible to secure the U.S./Mexican border, because the illegal immigrant will find a way to get around any barrier American ingenuity can ever devise. On the other hand, Americans can't figure out how to cross the Earth/Moon border any more, despite having done it 38 years ago. The New Moon Race therefore presents an opportunity to solve, at very little cost, a stunning array of problems. Instead of fences, simply place a few billboards (facing south) on the border advertising, in Spanish, the following: $100 an hour day labor jobs, a no-cost emergency room for every family, instant legal status, and a driver's license handed out to each person on arrival -- on the Moon.
Frum: Lunch Commander @ Cape
Subject: Are we go for F7 spellcheck b4 lunch?
Can I have a consonant and a vowel please Carol before we countdown?
Kinda reminds me of the "big stone head race" on Easter Island just before they ran out of trees. This planet is having a huge problem with global climate change and most rich countries are getting into a race to the moon... I hope the planet holds for another 60 years, then I quit!
I think Cheney would still be claiming that the goblins worked for Saddam and you would still be spending your money fighting the wind mills in Iraq.
"You can't allow somebody to commit the crime before you detain them." [Condoleezza Rice]