NASA's gonna extend the Mars rovers for another 18 months, but then they're gonna do something stupid like this -
In a cost-cutting move prompted by President Bush's moon-Mars initiative, NASA could summarily put an end to Voyager, the legendary 28-year mission that has sent a spacecraft farther from Earth than any object ever made by humans.
The probable October shutdown of a program that currently costs $4.2 million a year has caused consternation among scientists who have shepherded the twin Voyager probes on flybys of four planets and an epic journey to the frontier of interstellar space.
C'mon guys, I piss away 4 million bucks on hookers a year and I don't get as much satisfaction as defining the heliopause, Well, maybe I do, but her ass is not as big.
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