Galt's Gulch

O The Legacy Declares Glorious Mars Mission By The 2030s

Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago to Humor
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Yes, I put this in Humor.
O says our government will "cooperate" with private enterprise.
Hopefully, that's just to let them rent the use of Cape Canaveral.

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  • Posted by wiggys 7 years, 6 months ago
    Interesting how politicians "declare" something even though they may not be around to see it; i.e. Kennedy's mission to the moon. as for mars maybe we should give the fool a mars bar as that is as close to it as we will be with humans.
    I want to know what this fool has ever done that has been positive for humanity on earth/ please list these accomplishments.
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  • Posted by diessos 7 years, 6 months ago
    Spoken by the man who cancelled NASA's Constellation program. If it continued we would be close to returning to the moon and testing out all the technology that would make a Mars mission possible. We are still years away from being able to send our own astronauts to the ISS.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago
      Oh, my goodness! Are you saying the most transparent president ever for a Liar-In-Chief could actually be a hypocrite?
      Look out. Someone may pull the race card on you.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 7 years, 6 months ago
    This is beyond laughable. If, by some miracle, the government actually manages to do something constructive toward space colonization, I have no doubt that he-who-is-a-legend-in-his-own-mind will declare himself the hero who got it started. Why not? After all he got a Nobel prize for doing absolutely nothing.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago
      Years later Father Mars (as his humongous statue on that planet shall be named) tried to prove he was a worthy President Of Peace by pulling too many troops out of Iraq.
      O's responsibility for creating the vacuum from which ISIS sprang is besides the point.
      Besides, Bush occupied Iraq so whatever happens there later is all Bush's fault anyway .
      O's White House help may now dust and polish that Peace Prize on the mantle with pride.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 7 years, 6 months ago
    He is an idiot. He killed this mission of NASA in his first term, and then left their budget in place. Lot's of wasted $, but no objective.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago
      You're supposed to forget that like a nice little low information sheeple, who you can bet your bippy are now saying, "Oh, isn't O the Great and Powerful so wonderful! He's gonna gift us with Mars!"
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  • Posted by ProfChuck 7 years, 6 months ago
    I am always amused when I see politicians pretending to be scientists. When was the last time you saw a scientist pretending to be a politician?
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago
      Maybe one who says manmade climate change is real so that he or whatever he represents may receive government funding.
      That way he becomes an actor just like any lying politician.
      Not that me dino is putting down actors. An actor is at least up front about letting the audience suspend belief when he or she performs a work of fiction.
      Yes, lots of actors are libtards but that's not the crux of what I'm talking about here.
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    • Posted by $ CBJ 7 years, 6 months ago
      Various scientists proclaiming "we must do something about climate change" comes to mind.
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      • Posted by ProfChuck 7 years, 6 months ago
        Most of the scientists of my acquaintance feel that the jury is still out on AGW. There are a few, however, whose grants are federal largess and they don't want to honey to stop flowing. My position is that AGW is useful as a political tool, the reality of it is irrelevant. But to the extent that it does pose a global threat politicians are the least qualified to confront it.
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        • Posted by TheRealBill 7 years, 6 months ago
          I used to be in the "plausible" camp. Then I did more reading, a lot more reading, and still more reading. Now I view it like religion. Specifically in how you convert out of it. It has been said the quickest way to covert a believer is to have them actually read the Bible themselves. Everyone I know personally who has taken the time to go through the CAGW holy words has come to the conclusion that it isn't a concern. Some have gone further to suggest or suspect we are worrying about the wrong thing and are going to have some hard lessons in humility coming - but not because "humans" did something. Rather it is because humans are refusing to see what is going on and getting prepared for it.

          They think we are actually going in the opposite direction. What is more, is that colder is more dangerous and difficult to deal with than hotter.
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  • Posted by ohiocrossroads 7 years, 6 months ago
    Don't forget that early in his reign, Oblabla changed the primary mission of NASA from space exploration to Muslim outreach.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago
      Me dino covets "Oblabla."
      Me dino may steal your Oblabla, flee with it deep in the jungle and conceal it for my own larcenous use in some future writing.
      Oblabla me Golem precious. Me precious. Oblabla is mine. All mine. Me dino loves me precious Oblabla me precious mine.
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      • Posted by ohiocrossroads 7 years, 6 months ago
        Use it only for truth and for good.
        I originally used Obamao, but it got bleeped by too many websites.
        There are so many distortions of the name that are possible, there should be a website.
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        • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago
          Some I've come up with on my own are O the Great and Powerful (that Oz flick is pretty good), Oblamer, Obozo, Oblather, Ocommie and stuff without an O like Liar-In-Chief but there are times I can tell someone else has independently come up with a duplicate of one of my creations.
          Think I may apply Oblabla somewhat along these lines~
          "Then the Liar-In-Chief spoke his usual Oblabla on about Manmade Climate Change."
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 6 months ago
    Well Dino,
    now he the great and powerful O will get credit for any landing on Mars. When in fact him and the rest of the looters put up roadblock after roadblock hindering any incentives to develope The technology to advance and enhance our lives.
    What's next will he take credit for the sun rising
    What's his tee time isn't he late already. BTW he could use a good beaning by the late Gerald Ford.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago
      Merely the sun rising? Au contraire mon ami!
      Alas, his majesty shall be the very sun!
      O the Great and Powerful shall be a far finer and far more far-famed as The Sun King than King Louis XVI of France could have ever hoped to be.

      https://www.google.com/search?q=the+s...

      That French looter "The Sun King" wound up guillotined by those he oppressed.
      But babies don't you fret. Such won't ever happen in what used to be the home of the brave and the land of the free.
      Yet then again there's all those unvetted Muslims he and his evil hag successor to be wants to pour in all over us citizens here.
      Radicalized Muslims are not really into using humane decapitation devices.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 7 years, 6 months ago
    I believe everything Obama promises about Mars just as I believe everything he has promised in the past. Oh, wait a minute, I didn't believe anything he promised in the past.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 7 years, 6 months ago
    He's a hypocrite. He dismantled NASA's last capability for sending a crew into space. Now he's talking about a mission to Mars in fourteen years? Forget that!

    More to the point: let's ask whether anyone thinks sending a crew to Mars serves a legitimate and foreseeable military purpose.
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    • Posted by $ CBJ 7 years, 6 months ago
      If we don't do it then the Martians have already won!
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      • Posted by Temlakos 7 years, 6 months ago
        Ha, ha.

        Naturally I don't imagine for a moment that anyone--and I mean any intelligent beings capable of reason, as human beings are supposed to be--actually lives there. I was speaking more of whether Mars is a valuable military prize for human beings right here on Earth to contend with.
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        • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago
          Having seen the Disney flop that I thought was pretty good, I know that John Carter is back with his Princess of Mars by now. They or their descendants should be able to field a formidable army with at least two species of Martians.
          Me dino read lots of that Edgar Rice Burroughs stuff as a young teenager. Those paperbacks came with great Frank Frazetta covers.

          http://frankfrazetta.org/paintings000...
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          • Posted by Temlakos 7 years, 6 months ago
            My first introduction to Mars was the George Pal adaptation of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, with Gene Barry and Anne Robinson. (Universal Pictures, 1959?) I never read anything by Edgar Rice Burroughs except his Tarzan stuff, and not many of those novels, either.
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            • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago
              Most of those novels are really spliced together serial adventures for magazines so readers would buy more magazines to see what happens next. It's a reason why those "novels" are so cliffhanger action-packed.
              Film serials like several of Flash Gordon were made to compel viewers to return to theaters mostly during the Depression.
              I saw an episode of maybe the last of those things during the 50s as a little dino. To this day I wonder what happened to a blonde lady tied to a tree that an upright unconvincing gorilla came along to put its hands around her throat.
              CONTINUED NEXT WEEK! DON'T MISS IT!
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          • Posted by TheRealBill 7 years, 6 months ago
            Analyses I've seen indicate the name was a terrible choice in the states. It did a lot better where "of Mars" was left in the title.

            Anyway, I thought the movie was pretty good too, Dino.

            So did my daughter, Dejah Thoris.
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            • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago
              I read that Disney originally intended to entitle the movie "A Princess of Mars" but SYFY got the jump on them title-wise with a cheaper version.
              It was first seeing the cheaper version that led to me doing a computer search whereas I stumbled upon the above information.
              Later I learned Disney changed the title to "John Carter" I'm pretty sure as a result.
              I agree that "John Carter of Mars" may have given the movie a better chance in theaters.
              I've always enjoyed Frank Frazetta illustrations of Edgar Rice Burroughs paperbacks.

              https://www.google.com/search?q=a+pri...

              It was not school but the Frazetta exhilarating cover for Carson of Venus bought during a family vacation in the Smoky Mountains that turned 13-year-old or so me into an avid reader first of such silly stuff and then of all kinds of stuff.

              https://www.amazon.com/Carson-Venus-F...
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 7 years, 6 months ago
    I don't trust BHO. I would rather see corporations compete for Mars exploration and eventual industrialization. I'm a fan of scifi writer Ben Bova, and in his novels demonstrates what happens when govt's get involved. He makes a case that planetary colonies are better off to develope by themselves than have an Earth centered govt meddling in such affairs.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 6 months ago
      Space colonization (location diversification) is mankind's best chance of prolonged survival and each home for a planet or large moon should govern itself as an independent republic
      Oops, non-globalist republics would be an even better idea, that fractionalization likely assisted by oceans and other natural barriers.
      Socialism sucks no matter where it's tried.
      Now will someone break that annoying light speed barrier, please?
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