Zan Forms An Ice Crumb
Posted on | June 21, 2008 at 11:20 am | 5 Comments
What’s the big deal about there being ice on Mars? It’s not like we don’t have enough water and ice here on Earth (3/4ths of the world is covered with it!). Call me back when they’ve found dinosaurs or my missing Major Matt Mason dolls. I just hope they engineered that Phoenix Lander so it can whip up a good cocktail using that ice. Any Martians it may meet will probably be better disposed to this little invader on their soil if it offered them up a good old Harvey Wallbanger. Those guys must be pretty thirsty after a hard day fishing in the canals. And since there doesn’t appear to be any type of Martian Club Med, they probably don’t have much fun with leisure time or on vacations. But I digress. No actual Martians have been found yet.
So, really, wouldn’t all that NASA money be better spent making things better here on our home planet, in the good old U.S. of A? Instead of building drink-making technology into robots that travel to other planets, couldn’t we instead make a robot bartender that didn’t expect to be tipped and didn’t spill drinks all over me? For the price of sending one robot to Mars, you could probably put me in a really nice mansion filled with robot bartenders and other automated helpers. I’m not sure exactly how that would benefit the economy or the country, but I’m sure the Republicans could explain it to you.
Or maybe that money could be put to better use resurrecting old game shows with modern celebrities and sensibilities, like they’re doing with the new Sarah Silverman version of Match Game. Who wouldn’t want to see a new Let’s Make A Deal with Justin Timberlake as host? That would certainly be more interesting than some silly rustbucket digging up ice cubes on some world I’m never going to go to.
This post has been all over the place and I don’t really know what I’m trying to say. Oh wait, yes I do… they found ice on Mars… cool!!
Latre.
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5 Responses to “Zan Forms An Ice Crumb”
June 21st, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
> wouldn’t all that NASA money be better spent making things better
> here on our home planet, in the good old U.S. of A?
Short answer, no.
June 21st, 2008 @ 11:20 pm
But I want my robot bartender!!
June 22nd, 2008 @ 4:33 pm
Just who do you think’s gonna make you one, the Department of Homeland Security?
There isn’t an area of the economy that NASA research spinoffs hasn’t advanced, made cheaper or faster or less polluting. For about the cost of a month’s Iraq money per year, the U.S. gets a huge dividend and always has.
June 23rd, 2008 @ 11:19 am
But what does Australia get?
June 23rd, 2008 @ 5:38 pm
In movie terms, this.