Been a while since we've done "Disney Space" stuff, so check this out.

 "The Venus Project" is an organization built around promoting Jacque Fresco's art, ideas, and outlook. The idea is basically that poverty, crime, corruption, environmental damage, and fat women are all the fault of capitalism. If, however, we can create a world that looks like a 1960s Italian SF film, or like Disney World's Tomorrowland (Before it was given that gay makeover). The whole thing started in 1975, when such garden variety suburban socialism was pretty trendy. Eventually, however, the decade as a whole sucked, and eventually people decided to just get jobs instead.

So how long does it take for a vision of tomorrow to evaporate like last night's dreams? Not long at all. Sometimes something as trivial as a president who's been unable to keep a single one of his campaign promises, and decides to randomly kill a progam so it looks like he's not a completey toothless, inefectual leader.

The bottm line, my friends, is that last month Project Constellation went from being The Future to being something no different than all those Popular Mechanics covers from the 1940s.

If you're in early middle age like me, you can probably remember NASA and the government making a huge deal over abandoning "Wasteful" rockets like the Saturn V in favor of a more "Economical" system they called "The Space Shuttle." Development started in 1973, and it was expected to go into service in 1978, but as *NO ONE* could manage to do anything right in the '70s, and as Jimmy Carter had some kind of pathological hatred of the space program, it got postponed to 1981.