{"id":25,"date":"2012-09-09T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T07:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2012\/09\/09\/no-wonder-we-dont-have-a-space-program\/"},"modified":"2017-04-27T02:12:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T06:12:29","slug":"no-wonder-we-dont-have-a-space-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/2012\/09\/09\/no-wonder-we-dont-have-a-space-program\/","title":{"rendered":"No Wonder We Don&#8217;t Have A Space Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who wants to go into space if all we&#8217;re going to discover is an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alien_(creature_in_Alien_franchise)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">indestructible endoparasitoid extraterrestrial species<\/a>?<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-btPmUHXg8Ow\/UOuHH0US8dI\/AAAAAAAAQAM\/fs0VponVWjY\/s1600\/home_before_after.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-btPmUHXg8Ow\/UOuHH0US8dI\/AAAAAAAAQAM\/fs0VponVWjY\/s400\/home_before_after.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Rant from Amir, a character in development:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #666699;\">&#8220;What&#8217;s with these detestable cheerful bright colors??!?! &#8216;Home&#8217; is Sci-Fi isn&#8217;t it?? Listen up: I want lasers, dark dangerous evil, ruthless aliens flying around killing idiots, lasers, people freeze-drying, brutal crazy crap popping out of stomachs, viruses, explosions, wickedness, tentacles obsessed with diving down putzes throats, death: death beams, death stars, death dearth, darth vaders, death despair, death disaster. Did I mention lasers?!? Misery entertains me! If it bleeds it leads! Outer space&#8217;s lethal man. Give me deathliness. Instantly. Immediately please not now right now. I shouldn&#8217;t have to say please because what I want is what science fiction is. Everyone knows our universe was created by malevolent obscene councils of sadistic evil demons flying around in vicious conflict with each other. We&#8217;re finished. No one wants Future-is-Great crap. It highly aggravates pisses me off as a member of The Lost Generation &#8211; a Zero without a Hero, me &#8211; to tell you, this. It hurts. For your information I grew up watching Babylon 5 Battlestar Galactica Star Wars Star Trek Starwhatever SyFy Alien Prometheus Avatar &#8211; all of it, the whole thing &#8211; I am expert on high-tech corporate body snatching straight up ass butchery. With lasers. Dig it. Get with it. Butchery \u00e0 la badass. Carnage \u00e0 la punkass. That&#8217;s la programm\u00e9. Pull it together: Zombies. Space. Lasers. Pirates. Make it happen. Insane aliens. Aliens angels fear. Aliens god is afraid of. Lasers. Mucho lasers: laser swords, laser guns, laser jails, planet destroying lasers. Everywhere lasers. Be realistic: life sucks. With lasers. On Earth, on Mars. Everywhere. Lasers. Guaranteed. Stop annoying me you offensive optimist.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who wants to go into space if all we&#8217;re going to discover is an\u00a0indestructible endoparasitoid extraterrestrial species? Rant from Amir, a character in development: &#8220;What&#8217;s with these detestable cheerful bright colors??!?! &#8216;Home&#8217; is Sci-Fi isn&#8217;t it?? Listen up: I want lasers, dark dangerous evil, ruthless aliens flying around killing idiots, lasers, people freeze-drying, brutal crazy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,64,19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-factual-fiction","category-home","category-storytelling","category-why-we-must-settle-mars"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/lighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}