Charles_Main
AR15 Owner
Newt Gingrich says that if he's elected president, by the time he ends his SECOND term, we will have a colony on the moon with enough people to make it a state.
Two questions...........think that if Newt is elected, he'd even get a second term?
And second.............how would the US pay for it if Newt lowers taxes?
Any Major space project like that in the Future is going to have to be a Joint Government and Private Business Venture. We simply can not spend the Cash it would take to do, unless there is some sort of Profit Motivator to it.
I think Newts Ideas come off as sensational and not to serious but the Basic Idea of Establishing a Base or Colony on the Moon as a stepping stone to Future Space Exploration is a very Sound and Logical one. Especially in light of the Recent Confirmation of Ice, and Other Important Raw Materials being Present.