Your base is so primitive with it's 3rd dimension. We shall order moon pizza and have it sent to you every hour, on the hour. You shall never get work done.

IM ON Yer Moon, peeping YOUR earths!

Russia to start selling trips to the lunar base in 3...2...1...

kronicfeld: I can't wait to start teaching Mike the supercomputer about jokes.

Nicely played.

/Not obscure...

I will call it "Moon Unit Alpha"

The internet connection is going to really suck up there.

Will the 'man' be alive?

That picture doesn't look like a moon base, it looks more like a trailer on the moon.

I plan to have 450 billion dollars, a harem, and world peace by 2023. TAKE THAT, NASA.

I guess "Waste of tax payer money" is too long to fit in a tag.

Shouldn't someone consult jesus first?

"NASA announces plans to have a permanently-manned moon base by 2024. "

Yes yes of course... is that before or after Duke Nuken for ever?

Hmmm, I doubt it. We keep cutting their budget, pretty soon they will have to start pawning off rocket parts to afford anything.

You know, Captain, every year of my life I grow more and more convinced that the wisest and the best is to fix our attention on the good and the beautiful... If you just take the time to look at it.

First off, I got twenty says this don't happen. Second, I really wish it would. Third foff, will there be whalers on the moon???

Joshua

That's where Cleatus is going...

In seriousness... Cut military spending, working with the international community and get this shiat going, I wanna retire on another planet!

Joshua: That picture doesn't look like a moon base, it looks more like a trailer on the moon.


Best way to finally get rid of K-Fed.

Unhip1: every Administration has cut NASA funding to make way for one of two things: Pork, or war.

NASA has largely been pork for Texas and Florida.

/I'm sorry to say; NASA would be wonderful if it wasn't for politics

IM IN UR MOON, SELLING UR LUNAR BASALTZ

Errr... is the 'unlikely' tag on vacation or something?

sweet

I ain't no libertarian. I don't mind publicly funded research, but this (like the ISS) is an industrial subsidy disguised as research. If a million dollar robot can deliver the same information as a billion dollar manned mission, send the damn robot.

PRG, you beat me to it... Man I hope She is there

What happened about our planned trip to MARS biatches?

C'mon. We all know the moon base will be total crap. Eventually it'll consist of a living structure with slightly less room than a deep sea submersible.

Bonkthat_Again:

That's only because they saw China wasn't kidding when they said the same thing.

Exactly. For all the crap that came out of the "cold war", the "space race" was actually worth while... it produced more immediately useful technology and contributed to national pride without littering the world with things that could make life suck in a heartbeat.

Competition is a good thing... war is madness. There's a very thin line between the two.

/wouldn't mind if we got into a all out economy/tech competition with china
//just leave the nukes, wmds, guns and a bazilliion ppl at home please

(Seriously though, that's what sucks... if we get into a war with China, WMDs are a foregone conclusion because of the size of their army :/)

I wonder if the moon ever gets a population if there will be as many retarded people on their internet as here.

Barbara Baine = HOT!

UFO MoonChicks = HOTTER!

Gimme some purple-haired lovin' in low gravity!

If the Military Industrial Complex MUST have its taxpayer subsidies or our whole country will fall apart, then I'd rather they get money to build useless moonbases than useless bombers.

Klyde

Imagine the money/time/fuel we could save by launching ships from the moon with limited gravitational pull. The majoirty of fuel on most rockets is to leave our atmosphere. I realize we would have to take it all up there, but if we brought it up in incremental amounts, we could greatly extend the distance and versatility of a Mars mission.

What? A moon thread with no "But we nevar went to the m00n!" people?

Oh Fark. How far you have fallen into the sad, sad realm of sanity.

Fools! Doesn’t everyone recall the terrible butchery of the Time Machine from a few years back? Once we establish moon bases, it’s only a matter of time before miscalculating engineers detonate thermonuclear weapons and asplode the whole blasted thing! You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

She comes in colors everywhere
/I'm sorry to say; NASA would be wonderful if it wasn't for politics

That is true of any large engineering project.

Have you ever read or seen Seven Wonders of the Industrial World?

The problems faced weren't so much about engineering as about politics and business.

Complete and utter farking waste of time and money, especially when there are plenty of unsolved problems here on Earth we need to focus on.

natetimm

One of the reasons they want to go to the poles, besides the solar power they mentioned, is that ice = water = fuel (or so I'm told)

nasa can't go back where it was because it wasn't. This time the studio will show them goofing around "somewhere else".

Thought it was already a honeymoon spot.

TAKE THE MOON'S MOON-GINITY AND IMPREGNATE IT WITH HUMAN BACTERIA GERMS YEAHHHHHHHH

Lampmonster: Third off, will there be whalers on the moon??

A Futurama reference. Nice. Still not as funny as PegoTheJerk's ATHF reference, but pretty funny.