You Had Us At “Robot”

While the United States begins implementing President Obama’s vision of exploring the outer reaches of deep earth orbit, the Japanese have developed a plan to build a $2.2 billion robot moon base by 2020.

You think building a robot moon base would be a complete and utter waste of money?

More like NOT building it would be a complete and utter waste of awesome!

Let’s take a look at how building a robot moon base compares with other $2 billion federal programs:

$2 Billion High Speed Rail For Between San Diego and San Francisco

Advantage: Provides residents of San Francisco a quick way to get out of San Francisco.

Disadvantage: No Robots.

$2.3 billion for children’s vaccinations

Advantage: Demonstrates that you do not hate the children.

Disadvantage: Robot children don’t need vaccinations.

$2 billion for America’s community colleges

Advantage: Will ensure that community colleges can reach parity with typical 4-year colleges in terms of bureaucratic bloat.

Disadvantage: You don't need a community college to download software.

And so we wish the Japanese well in their robot moon base project. 

I for one, welcome our new robot moon base overlords.

J.