I've been thinking about this, and I'm sorry, but everything this bloke says just seems to reek of bullshit. He wants to put 1 billion dollars into Nasa so that we can all get to the moon and then mars.
Now, 1 space shuttle already costs a billion a year to maintain.
This dude also talks about putting together a plan to have man back on the moon by 2020 and on mars by 2030. That's more than a whole generation away.
Take into accound these factors - JFK said he'd put a man on the moon within about 5 - 10 years. (The moon landing was faked, wake up already!) Also, If Bush were really serious about Space exploration, then why the hell did he cut Nasa's budget 2/3 in half when he took office? Hense the shuttle disaster last year.
Also, giving yourself a 20 - 30 year time table gets him what? respect? A 20 - 30 year presidency?
Which is what this is all about... re-election.
And proves a couple facts... Bush knows that no one on this big green and blue planet wants it funked up by him and his weapons of mass distruction - terrorists or not... and that people really do want to live in the star trek world... so, for the cost of re-election, he'll get us there in 30 years.
And what's say we all fall for it? What's he going to do with all that spare time in between?
This just gets better and better!
Posted on Jan 14, 2004, 6:07 AM from IP address 203.61.64.110