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This is the international Space station. This is the international house of pancakes. The difference is after eating at IHOP, you're anything but weightless.

I have no desire to live in space. Yeah, the upside is you weigh one sixth of what you weigh on earth. That's nice, but you still wear size 42 jeans and look like an asteroid.

To me, space poses a lot of challenges. It's a fantasy to imagine us trolling the stars Captain Kirk-like. Those stars are trillions of miles away. And Trillion is a big number. Ask Obama. He's taking us there everyday.

But at least the president gets it that the space program is a luxury. Why are we sending men and woman into space to the tune of billions, when we will never get anywhere using conventional physics.

For example, if you sent a man to the next closest star, some 36 trillion miles away, by the time he arrived, all of recorded history could have been repeated a million times.

To put that in perspective, calculate the time it takes Time Warner and Cox to come and fix your cable and cut that it in half. That's a long time...

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This is the international Space station. This is the international house of pancakes. The difference is after eating at IHOP, you're anything but weightless.

I have no desire to live in space. Yeah, the upside is you weigh one sixth of what you weigh on earth. That's nice, but you still wear size 42 jeans and look like an asteroid.

To me, space poses a lot of challenges. It's a fantasy to imagine us trolling the stars Captain Kirk-like. Those stars are trillions of miles away. And Trillion is a big number. Ask Obama. He's taking us there everyday.

But at least the president gets it that the space program is a luxury. Why are we sending men and woman into space to the tune of billions, when we will never get anywhere using conventional physics.

For example, if you sent a man to the next closest star, some 36 trillion miles away, by the time he arrived, all of recorded history could have been repeated a million times.

To put that in perspective, calculate the time it takes Time Warner and Cox to come and fix your cable and cut that it in half. That's a long time...

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