{"id":1242,"date":"2006-12-09T08:28:04","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T13:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/mars-bitches\/"},"modified":"2006-12-09T08:28:04","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T13:28:04","slug":"mars-bitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/mars-bitches","title":{"rendered":"Mars, bitches!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gregg Easterbrook writes about the incredibly misguided lunar base initiative<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In deadpan style, the New York Times story on the NASA announcement declared, “The lunar base is part of a larger effort to develop an international exploration strategy, one that explains why and how humans are returning to the moon and what they plan to do when they get there.” Oh — so we’ll build the moon base first, and then try to figure out why we built it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gregg Easterbrook writes about the incredibly misguided lunar base initiative: In deadpan style, the New York Times story on the NASA announcement declared, “The lunar base is part of a larger effort to develop an international exploration strategy, one that explains why and how humans are returning to the moon and what they plan to … <\/p>\n

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