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NASA vs. PBS

Jesse Walker | 12.5.2006 9:23 AM

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As NASA plans its moonbase -- at a cost, I hear, of just pennies a day -- a well-known figure from another part of the federal payroll is speaking out against the idea.

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  1. Madscribe   20 years ago

    Funny, but sad, when the lyrics from a Sesame Street song makes more intellectual sense than yet another NASA boondoggle.

    If being on the moon is worth anything at all, beyond some vague wasteful and indefinable sense of "national purpose" and military strategy, the private sector will develop it.

    When Starbucks feels the need to put Baristas on some luna mare, then I'll become a believer ...

  2. andy   20 years ago

    When Starbucks feels the need to put Baristas on some luna mare, then I'll become a believer ...

    If you're going to use pretensious Italian words, at least use the proper plural form: bariste
    😉

  3. JW   20 years ago

    OK, several billion pennies a day, but who's counting?

  4. Yogi   20 years ago

    Ernie's main argument for not living there is that his friends couldn't come with him. Did they outlaw gay marriage on the moon already?

  5. Madscribe   20 years ago

    Andy, that's the way they spell it at my Starbucks. Blame them. I was quite content to order SMALL, MEDIUM, and LARGE without a translation dictionary.

  6. J sub D   20 years ago

    If the moon were made of gold it wouldn't be profitable to go pick up the gold nuggets just laying around. There is no reasonable purpose for a lunar colony/presence. NASA should be sent to the back of the gravy train line for this asinine proposal.

  7. Lamar   20 years ago

    When Starbucks feels the need to put Baristas on some luna mare, then ____________________.

    Insert preferred suicide method above.

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