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Saturday, January 10, 2004
MISSION TO MARS..
Oh man, this is stupid. So we're going to establish a permanent space base on the moon?!?
"I think that NASA has already proven that the moon sucks."
-G. Haddock, 12/19/2003
And now we're going to fork out tens of billions for an 'enclave' on a big, sucky rock?!? 10 years ago I might have said 'Woohoo! Let's go!' But I've since realized that we get almost no scientific knowledge from manned space missions compared with those where we send orbiters with multi-spectral scanners and things. Plus it's about a thousand times more expensive. I mean, what did we really get out of those missions to the moon, other than movies of astronauts hitting golf balls and jumping around and driving dune buggies in what could have been the Mojave Desert. Sending down those little lander units to Mars like we've been doing lately is OK, but we still get more information, much more cheaply, from orbiters. The only purpose of manned missions is to make people excited about space travel. Also, Mars is freaking far away...6 months. Think about that..that's going to mean that for 6 months we'll be watching videos of astronauts goofing off - playing with yo-yos, squirting their food across the spaceship cabin, riding exercise bikes, etc. I guess that part is cool, but still.
(By the way, I must say, though, that "Moon Fever" would make a good name for an ultra-lounge band.)
Besides, is it really in the President's job description to propose space missions? All this from a president that ran on a platform of smaller government. I could actually go along with some of the aspects of the old-fashioned Republican party (a la Lincoln), but the current G.O.P. is nothing like what they used to be. I think we need a new political party to describe Bushists who say they're for small government but by that mean they don't want any sort of government that actually helps individual people in any way, but do like big government that benefits people that already have too much money. Maybe we could call them 'Corporatists' or 'The Dollar Party (T.D.P.).' (OK, I got off-topic)
This kind of thing would be much cheaper, and much more important to us as a species.
Yeah, get back to me when we're thinking of going someplace cool. Like someplace with aliens, and stuff.
Moon enclave my ass. I can only assume he's courting the sci-fi vote.
-m
Oh man, this is stupid. So we're going to establish a permanent space base on the moon?!?
"I think that NASA has already proven that the moon sucks."
-G. Haddock, 12/19/2003
And now we're going to fork out tens of billions for an 'enclave' on a big, sucky rock?!? 10 years ago I might have said 'Woohoo! Let's go!' But I've since realized that we get almost no scientific knowledge from manned space missions compared with those where we send orbiters with multi-spectral scanners and things. Plus it's about a thousand times more expensive. I mean, what did we really get out of those missions to the moon, other than movies of astronauts hitting golf balls and jumping around and driving dune buggies in what could have been the Mojave Desert. Sending down those little lander units to Mars like we've been doing lately is OK, but we still get more information, much more cheaply, from orbiters. The only purpose of manned missions is to make people excited about space travel. Also, Mars is freaking far away...6 months. Think about that..that's going to mean that for 6 months we'll be watching videos of astronauts goofing off - playing with yo-yos, squirting their food across the spaceship cabin, riding exercise bikes, etc. I guess that part is cool, but still.
(By the way, I must say, though, that "Moon Fever" would make a good name for an ultra-lounge band.)
Besides, is it really in the President's job description to propose space missions? All this from a president that ran on a platform of smaller government. I could actually go along with some of the aspects of the old-fashioned Republican party (a la Lincoln), but the current G.O.P. is nothing like what they used to be. I think we need a new political party to describe Bushists who say they're for small government but by that mean they don't want any sort of government that actually helps individual people in any way, but do like big government that benefits people that already have too much money. Maybe we could call them 'Corporatists' or 'The Dollar Party (T.D.P.).' (OK, I got off-topic)
This kind of thing would be much cheaper, and much more important to us as a species.
Yeah, get back to me when we're thinking of going someplace cool. Like someplace with aliens, and stuff.
Moon enclave my ass. I can only assume he's courting the sci-fi vote.
-m
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