Been a while, and I'm not going to turn down any new pretty pictures or cool science.

It's just a shame the whole event is so dreadfully silly at conception. The entire endeavour is based on revisiting past glories like a faded sports-kid. At least the showing-off during the cold war was based on explaining that an arbitrary payload could be plopped down any place your adversary chose.

But we don't. Haven't so far.

Even though we supposedly landed men on the Moon.

Even though we go to war for "national defense".

The #DepartmentOfDefense is for the defense of rich people's property, not for the defense of poor people's lives.

Whether any war is won, or lost, does not matter much to the homeless person. International wars are a Weapon of Mass Distraction in Class Warfare, the war of the Rich against the poor.

The middle class are kept distracted.

Why are we feeding the Military-Industrial-Complex, when we can't even feed all our people?

What do these staged Moon missions do except tickle the fancy of the TV-addicted, sci-fi addled bourgeoisie, as they ignore the underclass of broken people on the sidewalks, in tents, who are hungry, cold, homeless, without medical care, and have no voice in the system, because of systemic hurdles that prevent them from signing up to vote?

If they could vote, they'd shout, "GIMME EAT!"

Just past the dawn of the Unix Era...