Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 10/29/2010 8:15:56 PM PDT by LibWhacker
He's been smoking too much pot.
One of my favorite Sci-Fy authors: Allen Steele, wrote a series of books titled, “Coyote.” It’s about colonizing a new planet and he does a great job with the books.
No kidding! It has been 40 years since the moon landing and we have Muzzies trying to blow us up on a daily basis.
Is this part of Hussein’s Moslem outreach?
Is he planning to colonize the universe for islam?
If I knew that there was a habitable planet at the other end where my progeny would be out of reach of the socialist bastards here (and if I were a much younger man), I would sign up in a heartbeat.
Spaceship? Riiight.
I’m all for it. We gotta get off this rock somehow, some day.
“The Stars are the Styx” by Theodore Sturgeon ping.
“aims to send humans on a one-way trip to newly discovered planets across the galaxy”
Thanks LibWhacker.
I recall reading a science fiction novel that put forth this idea many, many years ago. Can’t remember how it ended, but somewhere along the way, the offspring of the many generations born during the voyage forgot what the mission was all about. The whole idea sounds implausible to me.
Waaay too much time on this government goober’s hands. Just one minor critique - is it wise, is it even prudent, to risk appearing elsewhere where our “colonists’ would possibly be viewed as would savages in a log canoe, waving stone hatchets, and advancing on the Newport News Naval base wearing war paint?
Just wonderin’.
I know when I am getting off this rock. The day Christ returns.
Not exactly. The indians didn’t cross the ocean to colonize England. ‘Twas the other way round.
I really don't recall. I was quite young when I read it - maybe late teens or early twenties - and this youngster is now seventy-four. That would be fifty-odd years ago. You think Heinlein's novel would be that old?
The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri, which is 4.23 light-years away.
This means that at half the speed of light, it is 8.1 years away.
Voyager I travels at 1/18,000th the speed of light. At this rate, a journey to Proxima Centauri would take it 72,000 years.
NASA: "The human space programme is now really aimed at settling other worlds."
Obama NASA Project To Send Americans To Settle In Muslim Countries
"Outreach is the way to peace," says White House. "We have much to learn."
I heard Glenn Beck talking about this. It seems that Obama
plans to send “disgruntled citizens” to FEMA camps sprinkled among the stars. In the White House, they refer to these poor folks as Twinklers.
Well hey, I’ll just pop on a shuttle flight to the moon and look at their scale mock up while I’m on vacation...
Oh, wait. They still haven’t managed to get next door much less anywhere in the neighborhood. And, despite what the leeches at the universities state when sucking the blood out of taxpayers, they have to make the venture profitable or it WILL FAIL.
“The closest star to Earth is Proxima Centauri, which is 4.23 light-years away.”
IIRC, for the last 50 years, the closest star to be considered
to POSSIBLY have planets is 11 light years away, and the newly discover planets of one other star are 22 light years away.
Not to worry, FR’s resident space man, Quix, thinks that
“DISCLOSURE” is about to take place.
All of the big world govments know all about them ETs, don’tcha know? The kook to kook crowd says Obammie is gona tell us all about it, and really soon.
Within a few years we will know how to be zippin through them worm holes like greezed lightnin.
With a few click of the heals, and the magic Obammie password, you be on Youranus in a New Yawk minute !!
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