Halliburton & Mars: "an unprecedented opportunity"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

You just cannot make this stuff up, folks.

"Industry hopes soar with space plan: Lockheed, Boeing, Halliburton interested"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3973018/

Sample quote:

"Steve Streich, a veteran Halliburton scientific adviser, was among the authors of an article in Oil & Gas Journal in 2000 titled, "Drilling technology for Mars research useful for oil, gas industries."

[Loonman]

1. Avoid Derelict Spacecraft

[FlaGranny]

2. Yes, I heard

Randi Rhodes mention it day before yesterday and made a post on another thread about it. Bush may want to go to space for military reasons, but you can bet that Halliburton's (Cheney's) interests are a very close second. You see, we taxpayers foot the bill, Halliburton gets the oil (if there should be any - that's certainly not a given) without taking any financial risk, brings back the oil, and charges us through the teeth for it. Sweet.

[OneTwentyoNine]

3. I'd bet anything that Halliburton will HAVE to be the prime contractor..

You know,all those pesky security,terra issues that could twart a new space mission-uh huh...

So..Halliburton is the prime and they sub everything out to people who ACTUALLY know how to build space craft. But thats OK,Halliburton will scrape a billion or so off the top for being the prime contractor. Do nothing and make a billion,just another day in the Republican owned US.

David

[Lone_Wolf]

4. this is just the beginning

The infrastructure to commercially exploit space will be funded with public dollars. Once this is built, you can be pretty sure that that companies like Koch Industries and other mining & mineral companies will be the biggest beneficiaries.

However they try to package this, it is nothing more than corporate welfare for Bush's friends.

[jokerman93]

5. This is another way

This is another way to pillage the tax base to pay for R&D on advanced drilling technologies to be used here on earth.

The Mars thing is is red herring. And Bush can now lay claim to the "vision thing".

IMO

[Faygo Kid]

6. New "Scientific Amer." has ad for space missile defense

from Lockheed-Martin, full page - the same company that on Thursday also took out a full page ad praising the president's "vision." This will not be just missile defense (exploration? a smokescreen). This will be implementation of the ultimate neocon dream: A space based offensive weapons system.

[oasis]

7. kick

[Must_B_Free]

8. I bet Neocons would all love to go live on Mars,

and build weapons, so they could destroy the earth completely.

[Kool Kitty]

9. I remember reading something that quoted

Rummy saying something about avoiding a "Pearl Harbor-type" incident in space. (And this was from an interview done in the late 90s.) So you just knew this was about weapons and money. They don't go around the block for anything else, let alone fly all the way to Mars.