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Aye Pod7/12/2009 6:04:09 am PDT

I wasn’t impressed with zombies recent piece. But check this out:

news.bbc.co.uk

Dr Holdren also said that pressing demands on public finances had made it important to review Nasa’s plans to send an American to the Moon by 2020.

“The previous administration articulated a grand vision to go to the Moon, Mars and beyond, but they never produced a budget for achieving that vision.

“We live in a resource constrained world and we have to understand what our options are now,” he said.

Was there ever a time when we didn’t live in a ‘resource constrained world’? Will there be a time in the future when we won’t? I guess that’s game over for US space exploration then. Pathetic.