HBO’s Bill Maher decided he would be the one to ruin the whole country’s fun on Friday’s episode of Real Time by trashing NASA’s Artemis moon mission that concluded about an hour after he started taping. Maher reached the rather sad conclusion that the moon is just a pile of rocks and that the money used on the program should be spent elsewhere.
During his monologue, Maher admitted to not seeing what the big deal was, “At a time when there’s a lot of tension going on here on Earth, this is the feel-good story that has everybody excited. Everybody, wherever I go, ‘Bill, did you see the photos?’ Yeah, I saw them. Earth as I have always seen it. I’m sorry. I don’t mean to be the wet blanket on the moon. I just don’t get it. I mean, everybody’s like, ‘You know, if we are on the moon, we can get to Mars.’ I didn’t want to go there either. Okay, there’s nothing out there except other rocks.”
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