Gingrich Pledges To Establish Permanent Base On The Moon ‘By The End Of My 2nd Term'

[LordBrownTrout]

Space really is the final frontier. I'd love to be alive in two hundred years.

You could always freeze yourself.

Lol!! As long as I could get a slot near Disney.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

I'm tellin' ya guys... if we can send a man to the moon, we can send congress.

+1

But why stop at the moon if they're on board?

 

[Mustang]

There are valuable minerals on the moon. Not to mention launching space programs from the moon would be virtually free as compared to the cost of defeating the earths gravity and atmosphere.

I like the idea.

I've often told my kids if I'm alive when we actually start deep space exploration I would love to be one of the explorers. Who wouldn't want to be the Columbus of our times? We have an exciting future ahead of us in space. When we can afford it, that is.

I will support your application to go.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

I'm tellin' ya guys... if we can send a man to the moon, we can send congress.

The moon doesn't want them either. Maybe a gaseous planet like Jupiter.

 

[Avatar4321]

Wait, how is that possible? We've been repeatedly assured that Republicans hate science.

And it takes a lot of science to get stuff to and build stuff on the moon.

Right?

That should give you a hint about who/what Newt really is...

Nope. just tells us how you really are.

 

[Mustang]

In a speech pandering to Florida’s aerospace community ahead of the state’s primary, GOP contender Newt Gingrich made a bold pledge to establish a permanent U.S. base on the moon “by the end of my second term.” He further promised that if he becomes president, America will get a man to Mars “in a remarkably short time.” A budget-conscious President Obama ended the program for a lunar colony and moon trip after NASA reported it didn’t have the money for any part of the plan, “and even if it were to get a budget infusion, the schedule was unworkable.” Gingrich rebutted the charge that he is “grandiose” by comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln, the Wright Brothers and John F. Kennedy. ThinkProgress has previously reported on Gingrich’s curious space fetish, which has included an idea for a “mirror system in space could provide the light equivalent of many full moons” for nighttime driving.

Gingrich Pledges To Establish Permanent Base On The Moon 'By The End Of My Second Term' | ThinkProgress

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The first thing they gotta do when they get there is build an outhouse.

 

[Avatar4321]

Wait, how is that possible? We've been repeatedly assured that Republicans hate science.

And it takes a lot of science to get stuff to and build stuff on the moon.

Right?

THey do hate science and the proof is that Newt thinks a base will on the moon in 8 years.

Dumbest argument today.

 

[daveman]

Wait, how is that possible? We've been repeatedly assured that Republicans hate science.

And it takes a lot of science to get stuff to and build stuff on the moon.

Right?

THey do hate science...

Oh, stop being a fucking idiot for two minutes in a row, would you?

...and the proof is that Newt thinks a base will on the moon in 8 years.

On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced before a special joint session of Congress the dramatic and ambitious goal of sending an American safely to the Moon before the end of the decade.

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight which landed the first humans, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr, on Earth's Moon on July 20, 1969, at 20:17:39 UTC.

8 years, 1 month, 26 days.


It's certainly possible. Only someone who hates science would say it's not.

 

[daveman]

Wait, how is that possible? We've been repeatedly assured that Republicans hate science.

And it takes a lot of science to get stuff to and build stuff on the moon.

Right?

newt will use the test results of the basic research done by bill clinton (personally), claim it as his own, then will outsource construction to the chinese to build that base on the moon.

he will shut the base down, when he needs to ride in the back of the chinese/euro shuttle.

Horseshit post is horseshit.

 

[daveman]

Wait, how is that possible? We've been repeatedly assured that Republicans hate science.

And it takes a lot of science to get stuff to and build stuff on the moon.

Right?

Dave ....you have been assured by Dean Republicans hate Science.....nuff said.....and im sure he will be along with his Quote from some Right Wing Religious nut backing him up....

Closed Minded drank the Kool Aid, too.

 

[daveman]

I'm tellin' ya guys... if we can send a man to the moon, we can send congress.

+1

But why stop at the moon if they're on board?

Indeed. It's downhill all the way to the sun.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Somebody email Newt this link asap

U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time


I know Newt believes in American exceptionalism, and so do I. But we need the hundreds of billions it would cost here on earth.

 

[Ravi]

Space really is the final frontier. I'd love to be alive in two hundred years.

You could always freeze yourself.

Lol!! As long as I could get a slot near Disney.

It's an interesting question, though. Can you freeze yourself (soul, whatever) or only your body. I think it would make more sense to figure out a way to freeze the part that makes you, you.

I think creator of Star Trek was looking at it all wrong.

 

[Ed Spacer]

I say fuck the space program. Gingrich is a prog with a GOP label. What does wasted tax dollars going to the damn moon going to do to help people get jobs,start a better economy for themselves or help achieve better life for themselves?not a damn thing...just as bad as clinton having tax dollars going to the damn SETI program...

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

There are valuable minerals on the moon. Not to mention launching space programs from the moon would be virtually free as compared to the cost of defeating the earths gravity and atmosphere.

I like the idea.

I've often told my kids if I'm alive when we actually start deep space exploration I would love to be one of the explorers. Who wouldn't want to be the Columbus of our times? We have an exciting future ahead of us in space. When we can afford it, that is.

I will support your application to go.

I set myself up for that one. Lol

But seriously, you wouldn't want to go or at least take pride in those that did?

 

[Ed Spacer]

American exceptionalism is fostering the environment for free enterprise and a free capitalist market.

 

[Two Thumbs]

I say fuck the space program. Gingrich is a prog with a GOP label. What does wasted tax dollars going to the damn moon going to do to help people get jobs,start a better economy for themselves or help achieve better life for themselves?not a damn thing...just as bad as clinton having tax dollars going to the damn SETI program...

Did you know that NASA has people working there?

And that if they opened up a project to go Two the moon and stay there, they would have to hire more people?

true story, I shit you not.

 

[Kiki Cannoli]

Let's send Koshergrl. She can setup an evangelical anti-abortion kiosk and hit up all the pilgrims as soon as they disembark the space craft.

 

[Ravi]

Let's send Koshergrl. She can setup an evangelical anti-abortion kiosk and hit up all the pilgrims as soon as they disembark the space craft.

And as an added bonus the lack of oxygen to her brain might benefit humankind.

 

[Mustang]

There are valuable minerals on the moon. Not to mention launching space programs from the moon would be virtually free as compared to the cost of defeating the earths gravity and atmosphere.

I like the idea.

I've often told my kids if I'm alive when we actually start deep space exploration I would love to be one of the explorers. Who wouldn't want to be the Columbus of our times? We have an exciting future ahead of us in space. When we can afford it, that is.

I will support your application to go.

I set myself up for that one. Lol

But seriously, you wouldn't want to go or at least take pride in those that did?

What could I do there that I couldn't do here? Maybe a better question would be this: What the hell would I do there? I would probably spend most of my time worrying that the life support system would give out. And I damn sure don't plan on drinking reconstituted piss water.