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This is a joke, right? You got this off the onion, right?

I know that NASA has historically been used as a political tool, flexing our know-how and whatnot, but this is so patently absurd that I can't even wrap my head around it. What could they possibly contribute??

I guess Hamas is ready to stop shooting little rockets at Israel and go for the moon, instead. Hezbollah might be ready to join the 21st century too. Iran is at least well into the 20th century of rocketry. We might as well make nice before they go kick moon dust up on our flags without us because clearly that is important to the regime right now. To be serious: Do any nations based on the Sharia even have any real interest in space travel aside from Iran? I don't know.

What I really keyed on is the idea that we can't make it to mars on our own. Whatever happened to that "yes we can" diatribe we were fed? If Obama were really concerned about kids getting into science and technology, he'd make a mandate to get us to Mars and fund it. If he had any sense (or patriotism) about him, he'd throw more money at kids not only to get them interested, but also educated on science and technology fields. That's an investment in our future, and change you can believe in. Push our youth into research and development and keep the US advancing the envelope of knowledge and jobs will stay here, not go overseas as foreign technology and capabilities catch up to us. Instead, that clown wants everyone to catch up to us because somehow that translates into good foreign relations, or whatever it is that goes through that brain of his.

We need another sputnik. And a president who will act on it.