I'd prefer to be greeted by being given a hundred dollar bill. I'm not going to expect or demand that it happen.

Cory Efram Doctorow (/kri dktro/; born July 17, 1971): The "Efram" is silent.

They should have expected this. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Maybe if they believe we've never been there they'll restart the Space Race in an effort to get there first.

"We are aligning our engineering efforts and capabilities to deliver on our strategy and, in particular, our three core ambitions,"

In other words, they are bajooling in order to slatinate their gibleglopp for maximum jastoodo.

The multiplication of crimes in this manner is a way to avoid the double jeopardy provision of the Constitution.
"Well, he was found innocent of murder, so lets try him for murder while yelling a racist word. If that doesn't work, we can go with murder on federal property. If *that* doesn't work..."

It would be nice. That way our descendents four or five generations from now can think "how cute!" as they pass it in the RamJets.