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Posted on September 04, 2008

This article was written by Jamais Cascio in January of 2004. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.This last week, news services and blogs were filled with reports about President Bush's plan to put bases on the Moon and on Mars. This Leave No Planet Behind plan is budgeted to cost over a trillion dollars over the coming years, although the initial boost to NASA's budget is around $750 million -- that is, less than 1% of the total proposed cost. There are quite a few critics of this idea, but, perhaps surprisingly, many of the sharpest barbs come from ...

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