So does this Iran stuff mean we're not going to Mars anymore?

[slybacon9]

well, shoot.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1123470,00.html

[Duer 157099]

1. ..or maybe faster than we expected n/t

[Zhade]

2. No, we'll get around to invading there soon enough.

Just as soon as they find oil.

[jrw14125]

3. maybe we already went and u missed it. that's how decisive he is!

[gratuitous]

4. Mars, bitches!

Only because someone had to say it.

[slybacon9]

5. oh no you dint

[mr_hat]

6. Well, it doesn't make it any easier. But then,

we're going 'cos it's hard.

No wait... that was somewhere else.

[meegbear]

7. Of course we will, we just make some more tax cuts for the wealthy ...

and we'll be drowning in the moolah.

[newswolf56]

8. The exhaustion of petroleum supplies means the age of flight...

is ended forever. It never was anything more than a hugely expensive folly -- with space flight as the ultimate phallic fantasy: "my erection can reach further than yours." That is all it was -- and think of the public transport system we could have built with all that squandered money: a public transport system that would have gotten us to work when the oil runs out and would have guaranteed we can feed ourselves, a public transport system that now will never be built precisely because the money that might have built it was thrown away and now there will never be such money available again.

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Edit: tense problems (not enough coffee yet).

[enid602]

9. true

True, and you better believe they'll try to earmark every drop of petro for defense purposes. Nothing left for civilian.