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.Who would make the trip?
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
- hairdressers
- tired TV producers
- insurance salesmen
- personnel officers
- security guards
- public relations executives
- management consultants
- telephone sanitizers
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
Don't forget your toothbrush. Maybe Sinbad can pick who goes and who stays
ReplyDeleteThe Gentleman From Massachusetts, Barney Frank.
ReplyDeleteYa' know Basil, I've been pondering all day what/who/whatever I would send on a one way trip.
ReplyDeleteMy 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!