Courtesy long-time reader and commenter, J-lo, an update on Bush in Space:

In recent months, we have seen Bush’s presidency steadily decline from bad to atrocious, his future legacy labeled as Hoover-like, and the war in Iraq transition into something far worse than a civil war. In the hopes of truly “conquering” a foreign land and exploiting its resources, however, Bush and NASA have turned their attention to the moon.

The moon settlement would ultimately be a way station for space travelers headed onward, and would provide not only safe haven but also hydrogen and oxygen mined from the lunar surface to make water and rocket fuel.

It looks like the U.S. government will continue its pursuit on spending resources and taxpayers money on sci-fi ideas like creating lunar outposts and exploiting the moon for helium-3. I speculate with Iraq lost, Bush needs to flex his muscles somewhere and that somewhere being a distant land where the possibility of an insurgent uprising is nil! On the other hand, maybe Bin Laden escaped Tora Bora and burrowed into the craters of the Lunar Poles.

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