Euro Rant of the Day
Full marks for this bit of abuse from Easterbrook:
"Meanwhile the European Space Agency announced plans to land a manned spacecraft on the Moon by the year 2033. (Today many astronauts are women, but there's just no linguistic alternative to 'manned' spacecraft.) Until recently the ESA's goal was to send a manned ship to Mars by 2030. Now the plan is for a 300,000-mile, three-day trip rather than a 50 million-mile, year-long expedition. In 1961, at a time when prototype rockets were exploding on launch pads, John Kennedy committed the United States to putting people on the Moon, and eight years later it happened. Now in 2005, when there's a large international space station in orbit and hundreds of people have been to space and back, the European Space Agency adopts the bold, visionary plan of taking 28 years to do what the United States did in eight years. Shouldn't Old Europe save its money for building pastry factories? "
posted by Anonymous at 1:10 PM
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I say, save trillions and invest in my gerbilnauts. Think of how many gerbiled space craft (balls) could be launched throughout the solar system, long before those Euro-Wussies are even close to freeing themselves from the surly bonds of their biscotti factories. My brave space corps is young, ready and cute as the dickens. If there is intellegent life out there in the cosmos, whom among them will be able to resist the gleeful, squeek, squeek coming from their little plexiglass probes. The gerbil space corps motto is "Lets Roll" and "Roll" we shall.
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