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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (23678)1/10/2004 3:59:10 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 793673
 
My initial reaction is that Bush has lost his mind. It's time for the XXVth Amendment.

Let's see. We've had a tax cut bill passed and have a ballooning deficit. We have an expensive but indeterminate cost war going in Iraq with real potential for a widened conflict.

But we're going to spend $1T to go to Mars. Right.

I believe Derek said Mars could be done for $100B. If he really believes that, he should step up to pay the excess over $100B, including selling his wife and children into slavery if necessary. I think he needs to re-study and refamiliarize himself with Murphy's and Brook's Law. And Long's Law, which states that to estimate the cost and schedule of an engineering project, take your worst, worst case estimates and triple them and you might be in the ballpark, although possibly still low.

The upside may be technology developed as a result of the effort. Still, $1T is a whole lot of technology. I have seen statements that the Apollo moon effort more than paid for itself with technological spin offs from the space program, although I have yet to see any calculations to prove that statement. I suspect they fail to take account of the fact that the technology would have been developed anyway later without the program and their supposed credits should stop at that point. The technologies I have heard mentioned are Teflon, solid state electronics, and communications and weather satellites. THese actually could amount to $1T or more- -assuming they wouldn't have been developed till much later anyway. How do you prove history that didn't happen?

And, of course, there's the Beat the Kennedys theory: JFK did it. Why not me?

Maybe GWB should take a closer look at the Kennedy clan. He might change his mind.
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