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You will all be, I'm sure, delighted to learn that I'm still doing well on my WW diet. In fact, I'm doing a bit too well, as I rarely can eat all the food you're supposed to have. I can only eat so much fucking broccoli, I'm just saying. I've been doing so well all week that on sunday I'm making calimari salad. That will be just awesome!!!

I learned recently that my roomate's animal totem in in fact, the bunny. Isn't that cute...little fluffy diddy dinkums? So my new icon is of course, in honor of him in all his masculine splendor...

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I'm watching TV and learned that little Bush (dubya) wants us to explore Mars. That seems pretty silly to me, seeing as how we haven't even been to the moon yet. But I can be remarkably difficult to convince of certain things. I guess my question is, why in the world (pun) would he or anyone else think we have the right to go butting our phallic spaceships into Mars? It sounds like some kind of horrible, solar system based manifest destiny. Let's not start again with that kind of evil, no?

I'm back to work tomorrow, so I can stop sleeping so damn much. I've been having crazy nightmares, like the kind you get while having caffienne, sugar or other low level withdrawls. I wonder what i'm jonesing for, probably something my diet is keeping my from. Hmmm...

Still can't get to the information on my disk. H put all my stuff on one super big disk, and now I can't read it. it's driving me nuts not being able to get to my stuff. Not only do i seriously need to update my resume, but I need my fiction.

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I think your cynicism is unfounded.

Going to Mars is a good thing. I mean its not like we've fucked this planet up at all, have we ?

Besides the military industrial complex on Earth is due to run out of all the lovely resources that keep their various war machines and industries ticking over fairly soon, so they'll need somewhere new to strip-mine in order to keep the proles docile with big screen TV's.

Well, that's telling me!

Actually bush proposed a permanent colony on the moon, and to use that as a launching point to get to mars.

Exploration is one of the most important endeavors in human culture. The science learned and technology developed when we have a large exploratory industry benefit everybody. The scientific advancements gained from the space race, and even the arms race have impacted our lives in surprising ways. Satellite communications, GPS, cell phones, fuel cells, computers,...etc. All of these things have benefited from the space/arms race.

Of course Bush as usual is all talk and no action. He increased the 5 year NASA budget by 1 billion dollars. That means instead of getting 86 billion, they will get 87. Not much more. But we'll see how things go.

I could probably accomplish a lot with an extra billion dollars.

With one billion dollars you could build at least 100,000 new houses. You could employ 2000 people for 50 years at the cost of 100,000 dollars per person per year. You could send over 18,000 people to school at a public university for 4 years. You could insure over 15,000 children from birth to the age of 18.

As I said before NASA's budget is now 87 billion dollars to be spent over 5 years. But just so we don't get to thinking that NASA is over budget. The NASA budget is just a drop in the bucket compared to military endeavors. For example the conflict in Iraq has cost over 95 billion dollars so far. And it hasn't been a year yet.

http://www.costofwar.com/

Given the choice between spending money on warfare, or spending it on space exploration. The choice should be obvious. Experts are estimating that it will cost over 100 billion dollars to develop the kind of space agency that has the ability to keep a permanent colony on the moon. 100 billion dollars to develop new technology or 100 billion dollars to wage war on the other side of the planet.

Hey, just curious, do you buy the real bunches of broccoli, in the super-indestructable rubber bands? Me, I go the lazy route. I am a big fan of the pre-chopped, frozen, family-sized bags of broccoli. You can throw it on a baked potato and nuke, mix it in rice and pasta and such. Easy, quick, and fun for the whole family.

I buy both the real bunches, because i like the stems. And frozen chopped, because we only shop once every 2 weeks. I like to always have some veggies on hand.

Oh, that's another reason I opt for the frozen--I only go grocery shopping once a month. I take the bus to Kroger, buy about 6 or 7 bags worth of goceries, and cab it home. I drink soy milk, not from-the-cow milk, too, so that's not an issue. Then I have stuff to make lunches with all month, and so I shell out for my monthly food budget all at once, and I like that. I'm a budgeting fiend...that's how I'm able to travel as much as I do.

Now I find the answer to my question in your other post. *D'oh*

Bush is just lookin for another place to strip and mine.

I think it is ridiculous to spend that kind of money on going to another planet, when we havent even discovered everything there is to know about earth..look at how many ecosystems under the sea we know nothing about?! That and what about all the folks who cant even afford healthcare? I think we need to help our own people and get OUT of debt..not in it more...I mean, what? is he gonna colonize Mars so there is a job market there?

Bush isn't looking for another place to mine. He's not that smart. He needs something to get people interested in keeping him in office another four long terrorism-fighting years.

The moon has been explored. Whether not we want to believe it was done by us or another country or during the first mission or later than we believe. And Mars will be explored by a manned mission. and colonized. Hasn't anyone seen Total Recal???

Oh my god. Halliburton is totally going to be selling oxygen to the colonists.

Or Aliens?

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