Monday, November 1, 2010

Don't forget your towel!

Did you see that NASA is planning to send a ship on a one-way trip to another planet?

According to news reports, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding a NASA project to send some people on a one-way trip:
In a talk at San Francisco's Long Conversation conference, Simon “Pete” Worden said DARPA has $1M to spend, plus another $100,000 from NASA itself, for the program, which will initially develop a new kind of propulsion engine that will take us to Mars or beyond.

There's only one problem: The astronauts won't come back.

The 100-year ship would leave Earth with the intention of colonizing a planet, but it would likely be a one-way trip because of the time it takes to travel 35 million miles
Who would make the trip?
  • hairdressers
  • tired TV producers
  • insurance salesmen
  • personnel officers
  • security guards
  • public relations executives
  • management consultants
  • telephone sanitizers
Well, actually, I'm not sure about that list. That may be a list from somewhere else entirely.

But, as long as NASA is sending a ship on a one-way trip, why not use that list? Or something like it? Why not turn the 100-Year Starship into a B-Ark and include the useless third of society? I think we could include:
  • Democrats
  • MSNBC anchors
  • daytime TV talk show hosts
  • moderates
  • liberals
  • bloggers
  • community organizers
Any other suggestions?

3 comments:

  1. Don't forget your toothbrush. Maybe Sinbad can pick who goes and who stays

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  2. The Gentleman From Massachusetts, Barney Frank.

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  3. Ya' know Basil, I've been pondering all day what/who/whatever I would send on a one way trip.

    My thoughts range from Pelosi, to Lane Kiffin, to the retard that invented the snuggie, to Lada Gaga (whoever she is...I don't know, but I see pictures of her all over the web).

    But, I finally settled on cats. Yep! Load up the truck, and send every stinkin' one of 'em!

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