Moon Base FTW

[Ghryphen]

NASA plans to construct a solar-powered outpost at one the moon's poles, officials with the U.S. space agency announced today.

The lunar base is expected to be permanently staffed by 2024. The moon base will allow for sustained human presence on the moon's surface and help the agency prepare for future missions to Mars and beyond...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...moon-base.html

[RazemDog]

Sweet, I should be ready for a second career by then.

[Ardamir]

We are still missing flying cars and genetically mutated sea bass with lasers attached to their heads.

[TimberWolf]

Well, at least I know my dream job will be there by the time I get done with school.

[RagingSamster]

also linked in in that article:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...gue-photo.html

December 6, 2006—It's enough to give Gene Simmons (inset) appendage envy. Despite a '70s rock rumor, the Kiss bassist did not have his tongue surgically replaced with a cow's. But could Anoura fistulata tempt him to go batty?

A. fistulata (shown lapping sugar water from a tube) has the longest tongue, relative to body length, of any mammal—and now scientists think they know why.

"This bat was just discovered last year, and now we've observed a very unique relationship with a local flower," said Nathan Muchhala, a University of Miami Ph.D. student whose team's findings are to be published tomorrow in the journal Nature.

Found in an Andean cloud forest in Ecuador, A. fistulata (aka the tube-lipped nectar bat) evolved mutually with an extremely long, bell-shaped flower, the team says. In fact, armed with a tongue that retracts into the bat's rib cage, A. fistulata is now the only animal that can pollinate the flower.

National Geographic using Gene SImmons in a graphic = lolz