Bush Boldly Going Where We Went Decades Ago

[pinto]

great article on "Moon Plan"

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1209/p11s01-coop.html

[mikehiggins]

1. Another example

of Bush mooning the USA.

I never thought I'd oppose any initiative to get us back into space exploration but if Bush's stamp is on it I want no part of it.

Anyway, like his AIDS initiative or the hydrogen car, its all bull anyway.

George Bush...if his lips are moving, he's lying. And sometimes even when they aren't.

[Festivito]

5. Yes it's bs, except for more MILITARY control.

Bush wants a centralized, imperial government. And, he needs more military input into NASA. And, he realizes he'd better be ready to own the moon should another country start making claims that would offend his greed.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. No Objections to a New Moon Program, Plenty For Bait & Tank

I've no objections to a new US effort to go to the moon, however, I object to classic GOP bait and tank.

The problem facing NASA and space enthusiasts with a Republican/"conservative" administration is that the space program is Big Government. GOPsters love having such things as a moon rocket or the Space Shuttle as background props, but when it comes time to pay for such proposals, the GOP quietly cuts off funding. At least two of the Saturn Five displays at Houston and elsewhere are there because the Republican Nixon adminsitration cut off the money for further Apollo landings.

There has been a recent spate of books concerning US exploratory and scientific efforts during the early Nineteenth century, when the US government willing paid for surveying efforts of the North American continent, a round the world scientific expedition, and mapping of the ocean currents. Compared to these earlier administrations, Dubya's committment to scientific inquiry is pathetic.

[Martin Eden]

3. Scientific inquiry

is a danger to Bush. It reveals that global warming is real and creationism is false.

The Union of Concerned Scientists are mostly unified in opposition to Bush.
http://www.ucsusa.org/index.cfm

[tom_paine]

4. Agreed. And the Busevik "to the moon" is a Soviet-style lie anyway

However, bulding the Potemkin Moon Base will provide MANY opportunities for fraud and theft by Imperial Friends...

[Martin Eden]

6. Potemkin moon base

Yeah, the potemkin president's corporate cronies would profit handsomely from the delivery of a potemkin turkey to the moon.

[zbdent]

7. Well, you know, if a certain unnamed stoner on the radio says

that we never went there, you know that the liberal media will start forgetting that we ever had a space program.

NASA Glenn Research Center in Ohio will be renamed the Ronnie Reagan Moon Mission test facility.

Any references to the moon missions will be drowned out by the screams of "Did you see 'Capricorn One'?"

Tom Hanks will have one less movie to his list of credits.

All references to Reagan's tearful speech about the Challenger disaster will be erased from the media and libraries.

Old copies of the newspapers from Feb 2 of this year will disappear from the microfilm archives, as will a lot of editions from the late 60s and 70s.

[Demonaut]

8. Oil discovered on moon

appears the moon rover left during the Apollo era still has oil in it's transmission............weak I know. Just another expensive program we can't afford and even if we dont go back shrub will still gain brownie points "off Jack Kennedys idea" for having a bold vision.