Canucks were supposed to build the European Space Agency’s Mars Rover but it looks like Ottawa has, in its Oz-like wisdom, decided against it. And I don’t think we’ll see our Prime Minister, Stephen ‘The S&M Cowboy’ Harper, jump in to save the program.
Anyway, our Rover would have had a better robotics package than the yank one. (And they’re pretty damn good!) Ours even came with a beer cooler and hockey stick just in case we found some reasonably smooth ice. This program didn’t even require additional funding. It just needed money that the Canadian Space Agency already had to be redirected.
So the problem isn’t cash. And it’s not incompetence on our engineers side. So what is it? My guess is that Mars, like Europe, doesn’t have any Christians. That’s gotta upset Stephen. For all he knows, the Martians could be a bunch of Queers who’ll want to immigrate here. They might even be brown!
2 comments
Anonymous
December 15, 2006 at 10:51 am (UTC -5)
No kidding..maybe they are female…. worse still. they could be brown, female and dykes . Glad Stevie is looking out for us . They may even be married !
Ryan Oakley
December 15, 2006 at 1:30 pm (UTC -5)
He’s such a friggin’ jerk.