From The Telegraph:
China has declared its intent to send a man to the moon, aiming to become the first nation to reach the lunar surface since the last American mission in 1972...
Going on the dry
35 minutes ago
Tuesday 3 January 2012
China takes one small step towards solving over-population crisis
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Sod the china man on the moon, upset your local MP by stopping his subsidized boozing
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/26528
Send the crims, save on the execu-buses.
Can't we persuade them to send Grant Shapps, or Bob Crow?
They have recently started to make land private property. They wont have time to get him there before collapse.
Overpopulation crisis? The gov't sanctioned abortions have been used to get rid of unwanted girls. There won't be enough people for further generations due to the gender ratio imbalance. The men can always look to the yaks...
JH, B, I think you have to volunteer to go. In some circles, having been in space is something to boast about.
RS, so how did the USA manage in 1971?
NYSD, of course there's no over-population crisis, I made that up for the sake of the headline.
I'd love to go. Sign me up.
Regrettably, I was the one stupid enough to take it seriously. Ah, the logic ran, they're now wealthy enough to take on a full-fledged space programme, so as wealth has risen propensity to reproduce is falling. So now they don't need to have a State ban of second children.
Duh. It's no wonder Mrs FT gets so pissed off with me sometimes.
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