I’m sure you all know by now that NASA has decided to build a moon base.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/science/space/05nasa.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Next on the agenda is the formation of a committee to come up with excuses to build a moon base.
This whole exercise reminds me of when I was 7 and I built a moon base out of legos. It had laser catapults. Yes, LASER CATAPULTS. Having watched cartoons, I believed that lasers were long, glowing objects that were fired from guns in the manner of a conventional bullet. Therefore, I equipped the moon base with catapults with which to launch said lasers against such aliens and bad guys as may attack the moon base, as aliens are wont to do.
The NASA plans may as well have laser catapults, because there is no way this thing is ever ever going to be built. At least my lego base was completed on time and on budget.
I’m not so sure about the “on budget” bit, son.
You built some awesome Lego structures, though.
Welcome back, Sonobovich!
Comment by Dad — December 6, 2006 @ 1:53 pm
You’re back! I’m assuming you have your internets back.
Comment by Katja — December 18, 2006 @ 3:01 pm
Welcome back! First off, lets not be so quick to reject this “laser cataput” idea.
And secondly, I dont think a moon base, or as I like to call it, a “moon base” is all that bad of an idea. I think the missing budgetary element is some sort of extra planetary threat. Wouldnt it be funny after all these years of cover-up conspiracy if the government faked an alien presence as an excuse to build a “moon base”? I think that would be hypocristerical! (ah ha, the latest addition to the robictionary)
Comment by Rob — January 11, 2007 @ 7:54 am
I like this new Robictionary entry and will insert it into my vocabulary at once.
Comment by Katja — January 12, 2007 @ 8:21 pm