On to Mars

The Weekly Standard ^ | Jan. 31, 2000 | Charles Krauthammer

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...and now

...on to MARS.

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[Carolinamom]

I never miss a Charles Krauthammer column. Thanks for posting it.

[bc2]

PRIVATIZE THE SPACE INDUSTRY NOW!

firstly, space exploration is not a legitimate function of government. secondly, it is far less efficient for this to be run by the government then by private industry.

[KevinDavis]

Let's go!

[Atlas Sneezed]

How about the government offers a $10 billion prize for the first Mars rocks returned to earth?

Let private industry handle the rest, with low cost leases of NASA facilities.

[JoeSixPack1]

How about the govenrment ALLOWING the private sector to sell Mars rocks for "whatever the market will bear"?

Research and development completed by NASA is mostly unclassified and readily available to contractors if they want to step in and privatize space exploration. But fear of global dominance through orbital munitions has prevented our FEDs from allowing this. A;so recouping our tax fortunes spent on space exploration by patents created out of R&D would and could relieve tax budgeting problems. But once again, the FED is in control. Profitizing or zero cost necessity is unheard of.

There are better ways to fund this stuff without NASA or OSHA loosing control.

[Cincinatus]

How about the government offers a $10 billion prize for the first Mars rocks returned to earth?

In that case, award your money to an Egyptian dog, who was hit by the meteorite Nahkla in 1911 (and killed by it) -- that's the first documented fall of a rock from Mars.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Red MARS Rocks 4-Sale = Great Idea...

[ALOHA RONNIE]

.."KELLOG's Sugar MARS Pops, Sugar MARS Pop's are Tops"..

[JoeSixPack1]

Yeah, sure. But where do MARS bars come from???

[Jim Noble]

Do you think the sheeple will mind very much that the first transmissions from Mars Base 1 are going to be in Chinese?

[ALOHA RONNIE]

...Reports now are that the next bunch of guys on our Moon will be Communist Chinese.

UNLESS...?

[JoeSixPack1]

Hey, Mars is the "RED" planet.

Red chinese -- Red planet.....

[Anticommie]

Then, astonishingly, it took only 66 to get from Kitty Hawk to the moon. And then, still more astonishingly, we lost interest, spending the remaining 30 years of the 20th century going around in circles in low earth orbit, i.e., going nowhere.

Amazing but true statement, I am afraid tough it may take another space race to get us to Mars, if there was not for Soviet Union, we would never be on the moon, but there is no competitor now so nobody but dreamers give a damn about Mars.

[tet68]

Bump.

I'm ready, send me.

Blacksmiths in Spaaaaaaaaace!

[The Iguana]

A big Mars Direct bump.

Perhaps Robert Zubrin's time has finally come.

[LibKill]

Can I go too? Pretty please?

Even if I can't personally go, humans should go to Mars. It's the kind of thing we do.

[Eaker]

In that case, award your money to an Egyptian dog, who was hit by the meteorite Nahkla in 1911 (and killed by it) -- that's the first documented fall of a rock from Mars.

Damn Republicans will just figure out a way to screw the pooch out of the money!!!!

Stay safe; stay armed.
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