Gingrich vows to establish permanent base on moon by 2020, says little about paying for it
COCOA, Fla. Newt Gingrich is promising to establish a permanent base on the moon by 2020 if hes elected president.
Gingrich, the former House speaker, told an overflow crowd gathered on Floridas space coast Wednesday that he wants to develop a robust commercial space industry in line with the airline boom of the 1930s. He also wants to expand exploration of Mars.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/gingrich-vows-to-establish-permanent-base-on-moon-by-2020-says-little-about-paying-for-it/2012/01/25/gIQAlPBLRQ_story.html
lumpy
(13,704 posts)nt
3waygeek
(2,034 posts)after all, the moon is a harsh mistress.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)nanabugg
(2,198 posts)If people can't make it here on earth, what the hell are they going to do on the moon?
Amonester
(11,541 posts)And all their other victims as well, plus their offspring down to their grandchildren, of course...
I would go as far as to bet $10K it would not be the RomNAYs Royals. (cash)
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Joe Bacon
(5,163 posts)Remember what happened the last time they went to the Moon, Newt?
patrice
(47,992 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)but Mars says OKAY
lumpy
(13,704 posts)nt
qb
(5,924 posts)They're already tight with the Bushes.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)And we would have the Superconducting Supercollider, too.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)[font size =72]LOL![/font]
They drain the treasury on wars and corporate welfare but won't spare a dime for exploration.
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tabasco
(22,974 posts)and I'm all for it.
Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)unkachuck
(6,295 posts)....we couldn't afford to put a permanent base in Toledo....but I still love that old fat fascist....
....he and his visions appear suddenly, then proceed to attack your senses like the morning after a bag of Sliders....I think we should explore Jupiter....
He has a very mysterious mind. Not even he knows what it contains or what it will expel. It makes his life an adventure.
lindysalsagal
(20,433 posts)why go to Paris when you can visit giant, cold, airless craters?
We just don't deserve Newt. We really don't.
caraher
(6,276 posts)He was the congressman representing some of the biggest military and aerospace interests in the nation; it's home to major operations for what is now Lockheed Martin. Shoveling government dollars in the direction of people who make big rockets is an old mission for Newt.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)permanent base you money wasting thief of a pig?
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,113 posts)many years. You're jumping on this bandwagon like you invented space travel. What a newtwit.
AnnieBW
(10,350 posts)Why can't we send a Newt?
DLine
(397 posts)AnnieBW
(10,350 posts)I guess he wants to fund the search for the planet Kolob.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolob
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,282 posts)and show them a thing or two about "rules of aquisition"
http://www.sjtrek.com/trek/rules/
bemildred
(90,061 posts)tinrobot
(10,848 posts)If our infrastructure keeps deteriorating, it'll be easier to go to the moon than drive across the country.
diane in sf
(3,904 posts)PuffedMica
(1,061 posts)Gingrich will never have to come through on any promise he makes; Gingrich will never win election.
MarkCharles
(2,261 posts)I'm all for it! Let's send him this year!
JHB
(37,128 posts)...strong regulation of the financial sector, high marginal taxes, higher capital gains taxes, fewer legalized means of dodging corporate (and personal) taxes, and generally encouraging the making of money by investing in people, innovation, and production, not by speculation and the liquidation and channeling of pools of wealth that someone else built up into the pockets of a few well-connected wheeler-dealers.
You know, kind of like what we had at the time of the Apollo program, during the Cold War. What today's Republicans call "socialism".
Frankly, I think a robust space industry has many potential benefits, and one that is often overlooked but is not politically insignificant is that it provides a way to channel the sort of engineering, heavy manufacturing, and research that is usually reserved for the Pentagon into less violent products.