Barack Obama's Sense of Drift on Space Policy

On Mar 14, 10:39*pm, David Spain wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:
If he really wants to make everyone crap their pants, he should come out
and say:

"After careful consideration, we have decided to cancel the Ares/Orion,
and the manned Moon program... we shall now begin a program to solve the
United States' and world's energy problems without pollution by building
a vast constellation of solar power satellites in geosynchronous orbit.

Hrm. I thought the plan was to install windmills around Wash. DC
in 1 degree intervals for 360 degrees?


No place to put them because they have overbuilt the residential
areas. They can't build decent public transportation or a cross
county connector road, much less have room to build windmills.