What's Wrong With This Picture? (Spirit Mars Rover Shutdown)

[mik3cap]

We spend a trillion dollars to murder a half million people and destabilize much of the world.

Yet we can't find a couple million dollars to keep exploring Mars... to fulfill the President's own objective of going to Mars!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080324/ap_on_sc/mars_rovers;_ylt=AjirvfT0cEHmK5kyVt51AUGs0NUE

http://www.planetary.org/image/mro_home-plate_anim_200801.gif

EDIT: I know this sounds a little crazy... but I just sent a suggestion to Google via their "contact us" link, selected "business proposal" and told them to buy the Spirit Rover from NASA.

It makes perfect sense for them - it's a huge PR win, they already have a partnership with NASA anyway with regards to imaging, and they already have Google Mars, so there's a plenty good business case for them to continue its operation.

If anyone has any pull with Google... try and make this suggestion to them!

Comments

[rotting-orange.livejournal.com]

wait, dude. remember how during Bush's first term he totally wanted to bring back Star Wars? whatever happened to that?

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

He decided to line his buddies' pockets with war profits instead of aerospace contracts.