Moonshine

We've noticed the communications overload down there this past few weeks, about the upcoming anniversary of your first landing on the moon.

Back then it surely was a pretty amazing achievement for you - with your technology at such a primitive stage. But what's happened since?

You've built yourselves an orbiting garden shed and take turns living in it, like teenagers on a bush-tucker weekend. And we see you've just added some kind of porch to the construction - impressed we're not.

By now we had you down for regular flights to the red planet - with at least a prototype base for hydroponics and mineral extraction. How wrong could we be?

Maybe the hawks among us had it right that you needed the pressure from the Soviet Union to maintain your drive to succeed in space.

Instead, your rocket scientists set themselves challenges in the world of finance, developing fiscal structures so complex no-one could handle them - and this time it was the economy that crashed and burned.

We wonder if we can help you back on track sometime tomorrow.