{"id":10463,"date":"2007-01-09T22:57:57","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T05:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/01\/09\/as-long-as-they-dont-start-storing-nuclear-waste-there-were-cool.html"},"modified":"2007-01-09T22:57:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T05:57:57","slug":"as_long_as_they_dont_star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/09\/as_long_as_they_dont_star.html","title":{"rendered":"As long as they don&#8217;t start storing nuclear waste there, we&#8217;re cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/6246513.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Britain plans a lunar probe<\/a>, with an intent of contributing to a moon base by 2020.  Only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space1999.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">twenty-one years late<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Of course, if they&#8217;d formed a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ministry_of_Space\" target=\"_blank\">Ministry of Space<\/a> in the 40s &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogula-rasa.com\/2007\/01\/09\/space-2020-only-21-years-late\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ginny<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain plans a lunar probe, with an intent of contributing to a moon base by 2020. Only twenty-one years late. 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