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Enrique

(27,461 posts)
Thu Jan 26, 2012, 10:22 AM Jan 2012

Bush still working on Mars mission quietly in his spare time

http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-still-working-on-manned-mission-to-mars-quiet,18154/

DALLAS—Speaking from his home in Dallas, former president George W. Bush told reporters Tuesday that when he's not busy giving lectures or writing his memoirs, he spends most of his spare time working on the manned mission to Mars he proposed in January 2004.

"This is genuinely important to me," said Bush, looking over sketches of potential rocket systems he had drawn up while waiting for his oil to be changed at a service station earlier this week. "I wasn't kidding when I announced a plan to get us to Mars, by God, and I intend to finish what I started. That's why I try to carve out a little time before lunch and after dinner to work on this important interplanetary initiative."

"It's a big project," Bush added. "Lots of little details to work out."

While in 2004 many critics suggested Bush's call for a mission to Mars was little more than political theater, the 43rd president has called those claims "ridiculous." Bush said he has spent many hours scouring the web for information about space travel and Mars, in addition to checking out "a bunch" of books on the subject from the local library and regularly e-mailing contacts he still has at NASA to ask their advice on his plan.

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Bush still working on Mars mission quietly in his spare time (Original Post) Enrique Jan 2012 OP
I'm sure everyone at DU wants to help him. izquierdista Jan 2012 #1
Maybe he thinks that... MarianJack Jan 2012 #2
Just what we need: Bush fucking up another planet. baldguy Jan 2012 #3
mental image: phantom power Jan 2012 #4
Let's all get together and help send Bush to Mars! MineralMan Jan 2012 #5
+1000 LiberalEsto Jan 2012 #9
Shhh! The Martians aren't too keen on that idea, according to their ambassador... pinboy3niner Jan 2012 #12
Gotta love the Onion Sherman A1 Jan 2012 #6
George W. Bush, rocket scientist. PA Democrat Jan 2012 #7
He should go out into the backyard CanonRay Jan 2012 #8
If it was good enough for frogs...n/t Mnemosyne Jan 2012 #11
I didn't know you COULD get that drunk!!! HopeHoops Jan 2012 #10
 

izquierdista

(11,689 posts)
1. I'm sure everyone at DU wants to help him.
Thu Jan 26, 2012, 10:25 AM
Jan 2012

And if we can't get him to Mars, at least we can kick him into a low-Earth orbit.

 

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)
10. I didn't know you COULD get that drunk!!!
Thu Jan 26, 2012, 10:49 AM
Jan 2012

I'm sure NASA has a special round chrome file box they put all of his ideas into.

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