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| | TomDispatch - Fly me to the moon |
 | | Nothing better proves to me how pathetic our ability to predict the future is -- take my previous assessment of Kerry's presidential chances for an example -- than the fact that at 59 I still find myself subway, bus, or car-bound in the big city. |
 | | Unfortunately, when we finally reached the moon in 1969, the Vietnam War was growing ever hotter, the first pictures back looked like they were taken from inside a washing machine, and the guys bouncing around up there were about as heavily scripted for banality as the automatons in Kubrick's already released 2001: A Space Odyssey. |
 | | But whether mining the moon for a helium isotope is pure fantasy or not (Alien without the Alien, just the big, dull cargo ships plowing through space), the militarization of space isn't and our militarization of Earth is already a fact -- with, naturally, the same small cast of characters pulling more than their weight. |
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