On Space Programs 2

... I seem to remember in the 70's, watching us bounce a couple of men on the moon. Now, forty years later, we are soon hoping to repeat the feat.
... At this pace- recognising that there are no even-slightly inviting looking planets within sight of our most powerful telescopes- the interplanetary shuttles should begin departing for these imaginary, light-year distant colonies in about a million years.
... It would be a great laugh, except that we're being forced to pay for this fairy tale.
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... Attention, selected genetically-superior human specimens... proceed to your assigned evacuation sites, where you will board the shuttles, and be placed in suspended animation for thousands of years. Then, you will be revived, to spend the rest of your lives in a sterile, entirely un-natural environment, separated by a transparent shield from the lifeless, -4000 degree desert which is your new home.
... Exciting!