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Wingnut and former president Baby Bush used to say that we needed to go back to the moon and build a base there in order to go to Mars. Huh? That’s like saying you need to go around the world in order to visit your next door neighbor. Even for a certified moron, that’s quite a remarkably dumb idea. But, in fact, Baby Bush was practicing the ancient art of misdirection.

What nobody wants you to know (and which I’ve been telling you for years), is that there is in fact a secret U.S. military base on the moon. Now, for the first time anywhere, we get a picture of it, hidden in a cave. This photo was taken by an Indian space probe.

The secret U.S. moon base is in the hole. Really.

Here’s from a clueless post by Dvice:

Discovered by the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, this chamber is more than one mile long and 393 feet wide. There would be lots of benefits of building a moon base in there, mainly for protection from the nastiness of the surface of the moon. It’d provide a nearly constant temperature of -4 degrees Fahrenheit, unlike the surface, which fluctuates between 266 degrees and -292 degrees. And it would provide protection from radiation, micro-meteor impacts and dust.

So, what’s the holdup? Let’s get building! I want to visit a hotel in a moon base sometime in the next 20 years, please!

Hello, Earth to Dvice (make that, Moon to Dvice): the base is in there. Really. I should know. I was abdicated by the lunar kings and banally probed without mercy until I let go my own top-secret knowledge of just about everything worth knowing.

The threat of an asteroid crashing into Earth has captivated the imaginations of movie audiences for years. Now, however, Russia is working to develop a very real plan to counter such a threat.

The Russian space agency says it is working to prevent a large asteroid from colliding with Earth.

Without giving many details, a spokesman for the agency said it is working on a way to divert the path of the asteroid, named Apophis, without destroying it.

NASA’s latest calculations put Apophis at having only a one in 250,000 chance of hitting Earth by, or during, the 2030s.

via Russia, US at Odds Over Future Asteroid Hit | Science and Technology | English.

There’s more! Russia’s Armageddon plan to save Earth from collision with asteroid

OK, people, let’s cut the crap. You’ve heard about the Bush Administration’s Big Idea: we’ll go “back to the Moon” within 10 years. Why? In order to build a base on the Moon that will serve as a jumping-off point for a “manned” (their sexist language, not mine) trip to Mars.

Can we talk? If the U.S.–or anybody else, for that matter, wants to send a human’d flight to Mars, OK, that’s one thing. But why do it from the Moon? Why go all the way to the Moon–which takes 3 days and billions of dollars–to then take off for Mars? Read the rest of this entry »