Mooned... with aplogies to Neil Armstrong

Mother of tides

The great white kite

Floats gently cross the breathless night

Giant leaps are soon forgotten.

David Seaton

US base on the Moon... Sandino, where are you, now that we need you?

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The old Nicaraguan Sandinista fighting song, refers to confronting the "yanqui, enemigo de la humanidad". The first time I heard it, I felt hurt and offended, excluded and discriminated against... As years past and by the well-worn method, of "walking a mile in another man's shoes," I got an inkling of what they were talking about. In Iraq and the Middle East, it doesn't take much imagination to answer the question, "Why do they hate us?". But, until today, I really didn't feel fully part of the "humanidad" that the "yanqui" is an "enemigo" of. If we are "yanquis", and want to be part of the "humanidad" and not some aliens from outer space set on world conquest, then we must locate and identify these "über-yanquis" from outer space in our midst, so that once identified we can exorcise them and join our brothers and sisters of the human race. Because I can see, by looking in the mirror, (try it) that this is my birthright too. DS

US plans permanent base on Moon - BBC News

US space agency Nasa has said it plans to start work on a permanently-occupied base on the Moon after astronauts begin flying back there in 2020. The base is likely to be built on one of the Moon's poles and will serve as a science centre and possible stepping stone for manned missions to Mars. The US has already said it plans to build a new lunar spacecraft to succeed the last Apollo mission in 1972. Funds will be moved from space shuttle flights, due to be scrapped in 2010. The structure of the base and the exact duties of the astronauts stationed there have not been decided. READ IT ALL