A sad day when Gingrich is riduled for moon colonization

[occupied]

With our current technology it would cost several billion dollars a ton just to ship material there, not to mention the MIC charging us a trillion dollars just to plan the vehicles and habitats. We need practical people in charge not BS artists blowing smoke up our collective asses. The time for such a dream was before we spent trillions fighting useless wars and bailing out the banks of the world. All of this is sad for a space nut such as myself to say but we've all had to face some hard realities lately.

 

[knuckles]

I still think Romney is the best person to go against Obama..

But to criticize Newt for forward-thinking is unfair....

As someone who watched neil Armstrong take the first step on thelunar surface....

(and Walter Cronkite - "Boy!!!!!!!)

The Newt is so out of step with this. People are not pining for the moon..... they're pining for a job and groceries on their table.

 

[ginscpy]

So it was ALL FOR NOTHING........................

The Apollo Space Missions - andGemini before that

Astrauts like Guss Grissom died to get to the moon...................

 

[Dot Com]

We can't afford it!!!

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Oh brother.

Noot doesn't have Idea One about our economy or jobs but he wants the 51st state on the MOON?

He's an idiot.

 

[CaughtInTheMid]

You fucking Liberal turds laughed at JFK too.
Can't wait to see you asswipes go down in flames on election day.

Hope and Change, my ass.

many people, who held the same views as JFK, would now be in the republican party and are referred to as neo-conservatives.

i will have to say that i'm for taking the money that we waste on wars and baby sitting other countries and colonize the moon. that's much more constructive.

 

[ginscpy]

Ain't that the truth.

JFK was farther right than Nixon.

The 60s Reagan.

 

[candycorn]

I still think Romney is the best person to go against Obama..

But to criticize Newt for forward-thinking is unfair....

As someone who watched neil Armstrong take the first step on thelunar surface....

(and Walter Cronkite - "Boy!!!!!!!)

That's what I thought. It's a sad day in America when a Presidential Candidate is dismissed and Ridiculed out of hand because of suggesting a Bold Step in Exploration of one of the last Frontiers left.

How far we have fallen from the Day JFK announced we would go to the moon with in the decade of the 60's and the whole country not only responded Positively, But were sure we could do it.

Today a combination of Greed, Big Government Socialism, and Failed Leadership by Both parties, Plus Criminal Negligence on the part of Voters who's Apathy has allowed it all to happen. Have conspired to take us from Thinking we could do anything, to making crude jokes about how stupid someone is for Daring to think we could do something like a Base on the Moon.

If he does have these big ideas...it would be nice of him to make the statements (which I agree with by the way) in a forum where it doesn't look so much like pandering to the Space Coast.

He's really not that effective a politician. Sort of like Perry with a competitive streak.

 

[candycorn]

Even the most ardent space haters have to admit that spending money to have some sort of permanent habitation in Space isn't the worst case scenario of government waste. We had that in Iraq.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

We can't afford it!!!

Sure we can.

First, we fire all the janitors and then hire children at a fraction of the cost. Its not like they need to be in school anyway.

Then, we open soup kitchens to replace food stamps and unemployment. Float a potato in some hot water and throw in a saltine cracker. The poor bastards will be thrilled to get it.

We'll be spending gobs on all the wars he wants to start, but not to worry ... we'll just raise the taxes on the poorest of the poor, raise taxes on the working class and heck, we won't even notice that he's lowered taxes on the 1%, yet AGAIN.

See?

We're the United States. We can do anything as long as we don't expect the wealthiest to do anything but collect their interest from the Caymen Islands and the Bahamas.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

So it was ALL FOR NOTHING........................

The Apollo Space Missions - andGemini before that

Astrauts like Guss Grissom died to get to the moon...................

And exactly what is wrong with postponing the most expensive and least practical until we can once again afford it?

Even so, what Noot suggested is just plain stupid. 51st state? While he's against Puerto Rico? Oh, wait, he was for Puerto Rico being a state before he was against.

Is he currently for or against it?

I can't keep up.

 

[candycorn]

We can't afford it!!!

Sure we can.

First, we fire all the janitors and then hire children at a fraction of the cost. Its not like they need to be in school anyway.

Then, we open soup kitchens to replace food stamps and unemployment. Float a potato in some hot water and throw in a saltine cracker. The poor bastards will be thrilled to get it.

We'll be spending gobs on all the wars he wants to start, but not to worry ... we'll just raise the taxes on the poorest of the poor, raise taxes on the working class and heck, we won't even notice that he's lowered taxes on the 1%, yet AGAIN.

See?

We're the United States. We can do anything as long as we don't expect the wealthiest to do anything but collect their interest from the Caymen Islands and the Bahamas.

Grow up some.

We "can't afford" anything....we're in debt. Should we just stop doing everything until we're out of debt?

The lefties (and a lot of the wing nuts) love to lampoon one another. It would be helpful if we could 1) stay topical, 2) maybe just discuss the topic in a vacuum instead of dragging demagoguery into every post? K?

 

[Truthseeker420]

I still think Romney is the best person to go against Obama..

But to criticize Newt for forward-thinking is unfair....

As someone who watched neil Armstrong take the first step on thelunar surface....

(and Walter Cronkite - "Boy!!!!!!!)

Well..it's hypocritical to cry about a poor man getting a dollar of taxpayer money to feed him then wanna give trillions of taxpayer money to a few rich people for a space oddssey.

 

[Dot Com]

We can't afford it!!!

Sure we can.

First, we fire all the janitors and then hire children at a fraction of the cost. Its not like they need to be in school anyway.

Then, we open soup kitchens to replace food stamps and unemployment. Float a potato in some hot water and throw in a saltine cracker. The poor bastards will be thrilled to get it.

We'll be spending gobs on all the wars he wants to start, but not to worry ... we'll just raise the taxes on the poorest of the poor, raise taxes on the working class and heck, we won't even notice that he's lowered taxes on the 1%, yet AGAIN.

See?

We're the United States. We can do anything as long as we don't expect the wealthiest to do anything but collect their interest from the Caymen Islands and the Bahamas.

 

[candycorn]

I still think Romney is the best person to go against Obama..

But to criticize Newt for forward-thinking is unfair....

As someone who watched neil Armstrong take the first step on thelunar surface....

(and Walter Cronkite - "Boy!!!!!!!)

Well..it's hypocritical to cry about a poor man getting a dollar of taxpayer money to feed him then wanna give trillions of taxpayer money to a few rich people for a space oddssey.

Developments in Space helps all of us (for now). Your cell phone and possibly this Internet would not exist without the exploration of Outer Space.

And those of you who can't understand the "why", let me suggest that at some point, the usable resources of this planet will be exhausted. What then?

 

[Big Black Dog]

I like Newt and I hope he gets the GOP nomination but to tell you the truth, he is nothing more than another politician that has promised me the moon in return for my vote.

 

[Lakhota]

I want some of those "space mirrors" that Newt was talking about.

 

[occupied]

The Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies which we have signed and ratified forbids any nation from claiming the moon or any planet as sovereign territory. I wonder if Newt knew that when he suggested making it the 51st state.

 

[ginscpy]

I hated the space shuttles and the space station in retrospect..

cleaningsolar panelsand toilets.

freakingboring
what next..................................

 

[francoHFW]

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