Ramblings From the Ragged Crumbling Edge Of The Reality-Based Community

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Crop Rotation In Space 

...I've always thought space exploration was a cool thing, even if it was spidery robotic minions doing the work rather than the sort of space men that I always wanted to be when I was growing up. So I'm just a stone cold sucker for headlines like this: "Martian soil good enough for asparagus: NASA"...

Maybe they can grow corn, too, or possibly switchgrass! The key to American energy independence may lay only a few months of space travel away!!

Yes, I know that there are many other splendid uses that the money spent getting the 'Phoenix' lander to Mars could have been applied to. Today, though, given the fact that the Senate just sent a $162 Billion funding measure for Iraq and Afghanistan to Gee Dub for signature - once again without any sort of "carrot and stick" incentives for the hopeless Iraqi leadership to get off the dime and get beyond traditional gripes and personal quest for power, I'm not really in all that cooperative mood for discussions about the use of taxpayers' money...
Posted by: Jack K. / 7:29 PM

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