Rick's Cafe Americain

Since the Bush administration is so gung ho about space all of a sudden ("Hmm, let’s see, where haven’t we totally fucked up yet?"), here’s my suggestion:  a massive generator, with a killer amp and some really sweet speakers should be set up on the moon.  The complete works of Led Zeppelin should then be played in perpetuity, as a tribute to the greatest rock and roll band ever.

Regarding space, I have to be honest and give Bush props.  I am all in favor of it.

I will admit that when I first saw stories with headlines saying Bush targets 2015 as goal for manned lunar landing, I thought that someone needed to take George aside and let him know about what happened in the 60’s.  But that was more a product of somewhat misleading headlines.  Once I realized that the 2015 goal was to set up a future Mars landing I became impressed.

Honestly, I did not think George had it in him to look at anything (other than the death tax) that would be a project for our children or our children’s children. 

To those who say now is not the time to rev up the space program, I say when is the time?  This are long term projects and we should commit to them and budget them and I applaud Bush for being willing to push something that probably does not help his re-election chances and isn’t about giving cronies big contracts (though if I find out Haliburton is building the lunar equipment ....).

I still think Bush is a crappy president, but W. I’m with you this one.

I thought you were gonna say “Dark Side Of the Moon”.

A NASA revamp was way overdue. Rick’s just jealous cuz evil Bushitler was the guy to announce it. I must admit, though, it did seem sort of out-of-character for him. What does a “down-to-earth” guy see in Mars? I would have expected some kind of giant solar-powered death ray satellite that could zap Al Qaeda guys from space.

I’m with Ferrari, though...never too soon to start inching off of this planet. I’d still like to see more practical stuff like space-based power plants, nanotube space elevators, and, well, death ray satellites.