In Obama’s new space plans, we’re going to skip landing on the moon again, instead land on an asteroid, and then, in the 2030s, land on Mars.
Yeah, I don’t seen any of that happening (except for the skipping landing on the moon again part). We just have no motivation to really get out there in space and take risks. A hundred years ago, we had to show the Soviets we owned space, and that’s how we got to the moon on a giant rocket that no one expected to work. So what’s going to motivate us to explore space now?
Oh. Maybe Obama does have that covered. His horrible plans and huge deficits should make Earth unlivable. We’ll have no choice but to try to escape to space and set up some uber-libertarian colony on Mars which first rule will be: “No Obamas.”
The hope is eventually private companies will take over space exploration motivated by profit instead of… well, whatever motivates NASA today, if anything. But with the creeping socialism here on Earth, you may have to escape into space to have a private company.
So that’s how we get motivated to get back to space: Make Earth unlivable. Obamas doing his part, and I’m going to pollute more.
NASA is actually planning a 5 year mission to explore the space between Obama’s ears.
-ls
It’s 5 year mission: to go where no thought has gone before.
NASA would be in much better shape if it had allowed the UAW to organize at its facilities.
I thought the mission of NASA was Science!
The perspicacity of your post is stunning, Frank.
Personally, once the Earth is unlivable thanks to Obama and his hoards, I plan to grow gills and flippers and live in the ocean. (Ok, maybe on top with dacron sails.)
I was just looking at The Moon through my backyard observatory telescope (doesn’t everybody have one of those?) and saw a Nobama sign in Tycho Crater. It was huge, too. No wonder Obama doesn’t wan’t to go back there. Must be a bunch of waaaaacists living on the Moon.
There is only one reason to return to the mon. To determine the best aim point for the nukes.
BTW, can we leave that big eared moron there?
No motivation to really get out there? Do you realize how many aliens are going without health care? Not to mention the tax revenues….
True! NASA is rocket science. What if rocket science is too hard for us? Do we fall back on our lead in brain surgery?
“NASA is actually planning a 5 year mission to explore the space between Obama’s ears.” -Laurence Simon
“It’s 5 year mission: to go where no thought has gone before.” -Burmashave
Neither of these will work because….
“He’s dead, Jim.”
Politically speaking, of course.
Did you catch him saying he plans on being around for the Mars landing? Ya think he meant as dictator?
Obama’s space plan is to circle the seventh planet seeking Klingons.
We could launch all the ;iberals to the moon and do a Space:1999 where they get blasted out of the solar syustem We have the Science! to do it. Plus we get lots of moon nuking.
Equate his (the man with many names oboma) space program to his tax plan. First he says he wont increase taxes on us downtrodden poor folks just as he said he will cut space funding. THEN, he raises all kinds of taxes that affect the downtrodden bottom feeders and suddenly has a space plan out of no where! I was no fan of “W” when he was in office, but wow, BarryO takes the cake. If he ever writes a new book, it should be titled “Politics for Dummies: How to fool America and get elected president.” Mr. I dont wanna be a superpower would triple his profits then…
I was wondering why my cuz quit NASA. Now I know…he was next up for a moon landing.
An asteroid?!?!? What, did O-bah-muhh just watch ‘Armegeddon’, and thought, “That looks cool! Let’s land on an asteroid!”?
Our only hope is ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’
Has everyone forgotten the lesson of Avatar – that alien worlds exist to be strip mined? When private enterprise realizes there is no OSHA, EPA or IRS in space, watch out – the strip mining will begin!
“The Moon is lost”. — Harry Reid
Be careful with that rule, if we say “No Obamas” then technically we can have one, and we don’t want the Barak one to get in. Clearly we will need a libertarian sacrificial lamb who will change his name to Obama, so when Barak Obama tries to get in, we’ll be like, “Sorry, we already have one Obama, and you’d make it Obamas and that would be against our constitution.”
And then he’d say, “Well, I hate constitutions.”
And then we could show him the amendment that voids the ban on cruel and unusual punishment for people who make fun of the constitution.
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