Posted on 08/13/2012 6:20:58 PM PDT by TaraP
In a phone call with the team that brought Curiosity to a successful landing on Mars, President Obama is very clear that Martians, should they exist, would be a top priority.
With the Olympics still in midstride, and with the arrival of the always exciting NFL exhibition games, you might perhaps have missed that a spacecraft landed on Mars a few days ago to express our human curiosity.
President Obama, however, has made it very clear that, should little beings be found out there, they will immediately become his top priority.
Indeed, in a phone call today with the Curiosity team, the President revealed that the first question he is being asked about the mission is whether Martians have already been found.
One can imagine that, even if they had been found, it is unlikely that the President would say: "Oh, sure. They're coming the White House for tea next week."
But, in praising the work of all those who were part of the Curiosity rover project, the President was keen to make them understand that he would not sit idly by, should otherworldly life be found.
“in space, no one can hear you scream”
Probably get special endangered species act status.
shucks ... and I was hoping NASA would pressurize the cabin at least till he screamed.
LOL. Even that would be too much work for Dear Reader.
It’s the thought that counts
My gosh - President of the US and he doesn’t even know how to contact me?
Right up there with whatzerface McKinnon and the flag “on Mars”
Yes, the absentee ballots for Mars are on the way. Those for our military are stuck in the post office back rooms and may not make it on time for our troops to vote, tough.
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So in addition to everything else, he’s retarded?
0bama does love the illegal aliens.
Due to NASA cut backs during the Obama administration they had to eliminate the spare oxygen generators. Oops sorry about that Mr President! Fade out with David Bowies “Major Tom”
Obviously, Martians don't pay their fair share in taxes.
LOL ... maybe NASA does have a sense of humor.
I wonder why he did not ask if they saw the American Flag that the astronauts left there when they landed years ago.
Bammy just wants to make sure he will be the first to take a real live martian to introduce to his old “Choom Gang” buds and the Boyz at that Chicago bath house.
I’ll bet that Obama had something personal placed aboard Curiosity, and he probably included a pic of himself.
“President revealed that the first question he is being asked about the mission is whether Martians have already been found.”
Are they sure he said “Martians” and not “Muslims”?
In all seriousness, if NASA had been cut as much under a Republican (regardless of whether or not cuts were necessary) we’d be hearing stories about how the GOP is gutting the space program and ceding leadership in space to the Russians, Chinese, and Europeans.
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