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Newt Pledges Moon Base
JOSH MARSHALL JANUARY 25, 2012, 5:31 PM 38
Speaking in Florida moments ago, Newt Gingrich pledged to have a permanent US base on the moon by the end of his second term as president.
Speaking for myself, that sounds awesome. But I have to assume Team Romney will grab on to that and mock him like crazy. I don’t care how public/private you make it. The budgetary toll of a project like that would have to be massive. And I don’t think there are any strong near term business models for doing stuff on the moon.
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lol @ pandering to people who like to watch space shuttle launches and believe Jay Barbery is God.
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Can we send and leave him there?
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Can we send and leave him there?
lol.
If he's elected, you can give us advice on how to invest in companies that do business with NASA. Maybe able to profit on this.
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lol @ pandering to people who like to watch space shuttle launches and believe Jay Barbery is God.
Yea, the fact he is saying this now with Florida in mind is very suspect. BS BS BS... Pandering bigtime. will hardcore republicans have the balls to call him out on this lame ass crap?
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Yea, the fact he is saying this now with Florida in mind is very suspect. BS BS BS... Pandering bigtime. will hardcore republicans have the balls to call him out on this lame ass crap?
Most repubs are A B O.
by the way, personally, I favor massive privatation of space exploration.
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Most repubs are A B O.
by the way, personally, I favor massive privatation of space exploration.
Not sure I'm looking forward to the moon blinking Walmart's logo lol...
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Not sure I'm looking forward to the moon blinking Walmart's logo lol...
Why not? Would create massive jobs
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Good luck w that Hugo. Unless the economy grows massively w corporations ad business there is no way to pay our obligations.
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Good luck w that Hugo. Unless the economy grows massively w corporations ad business there is no way to pay our obligations.
I was mostly joking but there is some truth to what I said and posted that I do believe in. The place could fall to total shit and I'll pack up and we'll survive. And the second song I posted, yea that's true too. Corporations have fucked up a lot of good shit imo...
As far as space exploration, yea, let corporations get in on it if they want. That's kinda a given by many at this point... I still don't want to see the moon blinking walmart's logo... fuck that.
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I was mostly joking but there is some truth to what I said and posted that I do believe in. The place could fall to total shit and I'll pack up and we'll survive. And the second song I posted, yea that's true too. Corporations have fucked up a lot of good shit imo...
As far as space exploration, yea, let corporations get in on it if they want. That's kinda a given by many at this point... I still don't want to see the moon blinking walmart's logo... fuck that.
Private space exploration could employee millions of people.
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Private space exploration could employee millions of people.
The only two things I see that they might be willing to exploit are tourism and metal mining.
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i heard the moon had WMD.
Time to liberate em. Shock n awe.
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i heard the moon had WMD.
Time to liberate em. Shock n awe.
You trying to get SamsonJag to post again? lol....
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I wonder how GOP voters expect Newt to lower taxes and "reduce government spending to meet revenue," while he openly admits in the debates to being proud of programs such as Medicare Part D, being for government-set housing policy like Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae, and wanting to establish a permanent base on the Moon. Just the Moon base would cost tens of billions if not hundreds of billions of dollars a year. Medicare Part D already costs $50bn per year, while HUD costs another $50bn/year. Of course, he won't cut any security spending, which is about 60% of discretionary spending and it would be politically impossible to cut mandatory spending immediately (you could only reform it for the long-run).
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If history has shown anything it's that scientific research always pays off in the end...