Your Tax Dollars At Work

This has to be the funniest article I've ever read! It's called Mars or Bust and I'm only halfway through it so expect a part two.

Ok, ok, HA HA! Let me stop laughing and I'll explain.

Our beloved government wants to take $500 billion of your money and build a station on Mars for us to live on!

Ha ha ha!!!!

It will take 50 years but by golly, we're gonna do it!


POINT ONE
NASA says that it's not feasible for us to live out the life of one planet.

Well duh. I am a Christian so I'll explain this in a modern Christian view: We won't life out the life of a single planet. Jesus is coming back (so look busy) and the earth will be detroyed during Armageddon. God will create a new earth in which Jesus will reign on for 1,000 years (i believe that's how I understood it)

Ok, think I'm nuts? I assure you, not completely. Go read the book of Revealtions or the Left Behind books. Then we'll talk.

With this perspective, no, I don't expect the earth the last forever, especially at the rate we humans are destorying it.

HOWEVER and that a big "however"....
Don't you think that $500 billion of your money over the course of 50 years could be out to better use on figuring out how to find new resources?

Think of it. That's a LOT of money. With that much money, I am quite sure we could pay some nerd sitting in front of his computer in his mother's basement to figure out how to use wind and water (natural sources with no ill effects on the planets) to get us by in our cars and to create electricity, and so on.

We did it once. Remember the steam engine?

Ok, so why Mars?

POINT TWO
Mars has an average tempurature of 81 degrees below zero. Devastating winds kick up that are not even comparable to Hurrican Katrina. Scientists say that astronauts should be able to find a way to sustain energy and water from the planet to maintain our human race.


Sounds hospitable, eh? I've heard the claim that bacteria was found to be living on Mars. Something is alive there.

So if you find a fish to be living in the water, does that mean that I can also live under water? Ha ha! No, silly NASA scientist. Just because bacteria can live on the planet Mars, doesn't mean I can!

THERE IS NO AIR!


POINT THREE
We have neither the technology nor the means to get to Mars.

This is quite true. There is no rocket that exists to get a vehicle to Mars. What's a nerd to do? Well, lucky for us, they are figuring out a new rocket design based on the ones built in the 70's!!

HA HA HA!!!! Ok, we're gonna go to Mars on a rocket built 30 years ago. No, no, not just one, but several in stages because the rocket is too weak to carry us there for the SIX MONTH trip.

What about atrophy?

Ah yes, that is a problem. In zero gravity, the muscles don't have to work nearly as hard. The heart doesn't have to pump very hard to get the blood to where it needs to go.

So what happens when a man is in zero gravity for six months and suddenly has to get to hard work on Mars to find water and energy?

Ha ha! I guess we'll find out! Seriously, after all the muscles turning to mush, I doubt much can be done. I don't even like to get outta bed after a few hours' sleep.

Won't we all have cancer if we live on Mars?

Yes. Our planet's ozone layer protects us from cancer causing agents from the sun. The astronauts' vehicle does not have said ozone layer. And well, living on Mars puts us all that much closer to the cancer.



In short, how much money has NASA spent of your hard earned money over the years? Why, with that much money, the term third world country could be abloshished. Cancer could be abolished. AIDS could be nonexistent. Seniors could afford their meds and live out a posh life. A child needn't ever starve to death again.

But our government knows best, doesn't it?

Honk if you love Mars