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"A manned moon base within 20 years - Nasa's bold plan"

The space agency Nasa yesterday unveiled plans to build a permanent base on the moon within 20 years that will allow humans to live there. The base will be used as a launching site for missions to Mars, as well as for analysis of the Earth from space.

"We're going for a base on the moon," said Scott Horowitz, Nasa associate administrator for exploration, at a press briefing in which he detailed plans for the first permanent human presence on an extraterrestrial body, 50 years after Apollo astronauts walked on the moon.

These guys are obviously reading my blog. About three weeks ago I laid down the gauntlet to NASA:

One would expect to see a similar increase in our technological capability in that area, such as low cost moon missions with a high presence on the moon - a moon based observatory, some type of exploratory mining, a moon base from which to launch interplanetary missions.

And three weeks later they release a press statement promising just that. Coincidence? I think not. Let us see, let us see. A postdated cheque is no good until it clears...

In other news that proves that I know what time it is, Rolf Harris has had to publicly apologize for the "Abo" lyric in his 1967 hit song "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" after it was featured in the Red Hill Conversations Podcast last month.

Rolf Harris - back in the limelight after featuring on an episode of the Red Hill Conversations Podcast.

Folks, we're not just reporting the news here, we're making it up as we go along.