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Michael Crichton once wrote that if you told a physicist in 1899 that within a hundred years humankind would, among other wonders (nukes, commercial airlines), "travel to the moon, and then lose interest... the physicist would almost certainly pronounce you mad." In 2000, I quoted these lines expressing Crichton's incredulity at America's abandonment of the moon. It is now 2009 and the moon recedes ever further. - Charles Krauthammer, The Moon We Left Behind |
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Next week marks the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing. We say we will return in 2020. But that promise was made by a previous president, and this president has defined himself as the antimatter to George Bush. Moreover, for all of Barack Obama's Kennedyesque qualities, he has expressed none of Kennedy's enthusiasm for human space exploration. |
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America's manned space program is in shambles. Fourteen months from today, for the first time since 1962, the United States will be incapable not just of sending a man to the moon but of sending anyone into Earth orbit. We'll be totally grounded. We'll have to beg a ride from the Russians or perhaps even the Chinese. |
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A vigorous young president once summoned us to this new frontier, calling the voyage "the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked." And so we did it. We came. We saw. Then we retreated. How could we? |
![]() Not Shakespeare, Barnes, I'll admit it, but abundantly more eloquent than 'How could we?'. Let me offer you another quote, you insufferable moron, one that you might do well to ponder the next time you consider making one of your ham-fisted edits. To paraphrase what the great American fictional icon Ralph Kramden often said when his wife Alice would blithely insert herself into his business, "One of these days, Barnes... POW! To the moon!" |
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