Pork, pork, pork All this could be done for 10th or 100th the cost with a robotic mission. This is all about directing pork to congressional districts, but science.

Too bad. It was the most terse language ever created.

So we can find work for more unemployed physicists and engineers...but don't expect it to really work...

Because they get gummy and black with congealed hacker sweat--saw this at Brown where we had these glorious keyboard but they were filthy

Aren't there continuous low-grade wars in 1984 to keep the people scared?

Perfect for the greedy CEOs of tech companies

The linked article is stilted and brain dead. It did not discuss the real science at NASA, i.e. the unmanned robotic probes that have been so successful such as the Voyager and Mariner missions and Hubble. There was (and still is) almost no scientific returned from the manned spaceflight missions. Almost all the discoveries and science come from robotic missions. Yes in spite of that, the unmanned directorate had to (and still does) fight for its life as the manned missions people who run NASA are always trying to steal their funding. That is why Carl Sagan started the Planetary Society; to stop the poaching of funds my the manned spaceflight pork-masters.

The next Netscape 6. C++ killed Netscape and will kill this idiotic project

Do the Hollywood moguls really run the country? Of course they do...

For sure. They are watching us.

That is Boston and its beloved, if cretinous, mayor, Mumble Menino so don't project this city to the whole country. Not every city (except Providence) promotes its barely literate chauffeure driver to Mayor, but we had someone smart in there, they might uncover the dirt.

Mine for what? There is almost nothing there. There are no plate tectonics or much in the way of hydrothermal deposits to concentrate minerals. Forget minerals such as copper or other metals except iron. There is no oil or coal or nitrates. You can have all the sulfur you want if you need sulfuric acid...

I will stay here on the Green Hills of Earth

is just too good to say no to...

Thank you!