Fear Accelerating Story of the Day
Just what we need.
Halliburton building bases on the moon. CACI recruits can live in them while they mine for lunar minerals and get ready to launch for Mars. MCI will get a no bid contract for communications, sorta like in Iraq, and Merck can supply the Lunarnauts with aspirin for 175 dollars a pill, so they'll get it from Canada eventually, and Philip Morris can supply the aero environment. Everyone can have their own nuclear missiles too, shipped in on Lockheed nuclear powered rockets.
And of course tax dollars will pay for it. Tax dollars pay for all privatization.
I'm remembering The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch set on the hot, hot earth with its devolving people and Gateway and Dune and Stranger in A Strange Land and Childhoods End all those other glorious sci fi novels I read by the bag full as a teen. They were far better than this scheme. And they explained people like Bush and Dick "Torquemada" Cheney.
Our species is too aggressive and far too immature to leave home. I know. I read the science fiction canon before I was old to drive.
Of course that dimwit wants to colonize space. Of course he does. The Emperor George, AKA George the Cretin.
An off world human presence will lead to even more death and destruction. Though I wouldn't mind rocketing all the neocons and corporate heads and media pigs and plug ugly, bitter greaseball Tom Delays straight to the white hot center of the sun.
NASA envisions commercial flights carrying supplies, crews
LEAGUE CITY, Texas (AP) -- NASA administrator Michael Griffin desires a greater role for private industry in space, and believes the international space station can provide incentive for businesses to get involved.
"The exploration of the solar system cannot be what we want it to be" if the cost is borne solely by American taxpayer, or even by taxpayers of nations willing to join in, Griffin told the American Astronautical Society's annual conference Tuesday.
The space station, which is about the size of a three-bedroom house and halfway complete, provides an opportunity to promote "commercial space ventures that will help us meet our exploration objectives and at the same time create new jobs and new industry," he said.
Once the nation's shuttle fleet is retired in 2010, Griffin said he would like to see commercial industry take over crew rotations and supply missions.
"We want to be able to buy these services from American industry," he said. "We believe that when we engage the engine of competition, these services will be provided in a more-cost effective fashion than when the government has to do it."
The space agency plans to begin seeking proposals this fall from industries to deliver cargo to orbit.
Griffin said the private sector could develop habitats in which astronauts would live on the moon, and develop communications and navigation systems as well as orbiting fueling depots where crews headed beyond low Earth orbit could refuel on return trips to the moon or farther.
"I think we are at the start of something big -- something akin to what we saw with the personal computer 25 years ago," the NASA chief said.
Halliburton building bases on the moon. CACI recruits can live in them while they mine for lunar minerals and get ready to launch for Mars. MCI will get a no bid contract for communications, sorta like in Iraq, and Merck can supply the Lunarnauts with aspirin for 175 dollars a pill, so they'll get it from Canada eventually, and Philip Morris can supply the aero environment. Everyone can have their own nuclear missiles too, shipped in on Lockheed nuclear powered rockets.
And of course tax dollars will pay for it. Tax dollars pay for all privatization.
I'm remembering The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch set on the hot, hot earth with its devolving people and Gateway and Dune and Stranger in A Strange Land and Childhoods End all those other glorious sci fi novels I read by the bag full as a teen. They were far better than this scheme. And they explained people like Bush and Dick "Torquemada" Cheney.
Our species is too aggressive and far too immature to leave home. I know. I read the science fiction canon before I was old to drive.
Of course that dimwit wants to colonize space. Of course he does. The Emperor George, AKA George the Cretin.
An off world human presence will lead to even more death and destruction. Though I wouldn't mind rocketing all the neocons and corporate heads and media pigs and plug ugly, bitter greaseball Tom Delays straight to the white hot center of the sun.
NASA envisions commercial flights carrying supplies, crews
LEAGUE CITY, Texas (AP) -- NASA administrator Michael Griffin desires a greater role for private industry in space, and believes the international space station can provide incentive for businesses to get involved.
"The exploration of the solar system cannot be what we want it to be" if the cost is borne solely by American taxpayer, or even by taxpayers of nations willing to join in, Griffin told the American Astronautical Society's annual conference Tuesday.
The space station, which is about the size of a three-bedroom house and halfway complete, provides an opportunity to promote "commercial space ventures that will help us meet our exploration objectives and at the same time create new jobs and new industry," he said.
Once the nation's shuttle fleet is retired in 2010, Griffin said he would like to see commercial industry take over crew rotations and supply missions.
"We want to be able to buy these services from American industry," he said. "We believe that when we engage the engine of competition, these services will be provided in a more-cost effective fashion than when the government has to do it."
The space agency plans to begin seeking proposals this fall from industries to deliver cargo to orbit.
Griffin said the private sector could develop habitats in which astronauts would live on the moon, and develop communications and navigation systems as well as orbiting fueling depots where crews headed beyond low Earth orbit could refuel on return trips to the moon or farther.
"I think we are at the start of something big -- something akin to what we saw with the personal computer 25 years ago," the NASA chief said.
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