Houston Chronicle says: "While NASA fixates on Mars, space rivals shoot for the moon"
Hmm. Let's unpack this little gem shall we? NASA 'did' the moon 45 effing years ago. Our 'rivals' didn't have a full complement of flush toilets back then. Now that they've got their plumbing straightened out they are headed for the 'ol dead rock to amp their prestige and prove their tech. Tech that we had...45 years ago.
So whyintheHell would we want to blow billions upon billions to redo the voodoo that we did do? Well Houston has this big 'ol NASA facility and there ain't enough work on this gosh darn far into the future Mars mission to keep all the chappies busy. And ever since the damned private sector got into the launch business the scope of what an inefficient and rather incompetent Federal bureaucracy can get away with has narrowed quite a bit. But the moon hell, we could do the moon in our sleep. We've already done the dad gum moon. Can't screw that one up, can we? And it'll cost a boatload. And we need a boatload to keep this carbuncle ticking.
In short: oink oink.
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