I'm scared.

[c9]

US President Bush appears to be planning to announce a new space mission / goal, possibly a return to the Moon for NASA. I'm scared, because it's the first time he's ever done ANYTHING I agree with! If he actually does it. I believe very strongly that as a species we need to explore, and exploring space (hopefully not fighting over it, but I suspect that's inevitable) is one way to a) annihilation-proof our species, b) gain access to new resources, and c) bump into the other species that live on other planets somewhere. My way of thinking is that if life evolved on Earth in so many ways, there have got to be other planets out there with life too -- especially considering how many planets we keep discovering at a distance.

Anyway, Buzz Aldrin has written an Op-Ed about the idea, and ways to improve it -- interesting reading for any geeks out there.

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Ugh, yeah. I hate that this might allow them to stay in power. Hmmm. I might even reconsider my positive spin. I hate that something so fundamentally positive (in my mind) could be used a) to distract from something negative (Iraq), and b) negatively in and of itself (space wars with China)