A levy on science fiction is the way to solve NASA’s budget crisis. So says Michael Williams, a Republican running in Huntsville, Alabama, for a seat in the US Congress, who wants NASA’s entire funding to come from a 1 per cent tax on all merchandise relating to sci-fi or space, such as books, comics, toys and games. He also believes that everyone on Earth should have the same basic rights that Americans are afforded by the US Constitution, but only when more than 30,000 colonists have settled or been born “on the Moon, Mars or any other celestial body besides Earth”.…
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