Reality is more absurd than any joke. Russia’s program to protect against space threats estimated at 58 billion rubles
The ten-year Federal Target Program to protect Russia from space threats, including meteorite impacts, is budgeted at 58 billion rubles, RIA Novosti reports, citing Lidiya Rykhlova, head of the astronomy department at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Astronomy (INASAN). According to her, the program has been approved by Roscosmos and is now “sitting on the desk of (Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry) Rogozin.” http://www.gazeta.ru/science/news/2013/02/18/n_2760417.shtml
I’m proud of Russia. It will become the first country where even a rock falling from the sky turns into a pretext for a mega-project designed to siphon off a few dozen billion. Fix the roads in Chelyabinsk, for crying out loud. The potholes there cause more damage in a year than a hundred meteorites. I’m sure that if toads started falling from the sky, and a giant scarlet message appeared in the heavens saying "STOP STEALING," it would only lead to three things: A government Federal Target Program called "Anti-Toad Laser Defense," costing 45 billion rubles. An emergency no-bid procurement for R&D titled "Cutting-edge technological solutions for preventing extremist messages in the sovereign airspace of the Russian Federation," followed by implementation of the proposals for 51 billion rubles. The allocation of 2 million rubles to Kurginyan so that he can tie white ribbons (under cover of darkness) to the toads’ legs, followed by an exposé on Channel One (Russia’s main state TV channel) of the pro-American white-ribbon provocation.
Tags
Places