Gingrich: "I will establish a colony on the Moon"

Not the government's job. The government's job is to make the conditions favorable to high employment. The moon will be the key to security in the future, it is vital that we maintain a presence there before China exploits it themselves.

He wouldn't do it with JUST government but he wouldn't do it WITHOUT government either. Kind of like it wasn't JUST the government that resurrected GM but they would be dead WITHOUT government intervention. Big government is big government no matter how one chooses to frame it. I do not like big government.

Integrated circuits for starters. Not to mention the launch vehicle technology that got the GPS satellites in the sky so they can find the bar that they are planning to hit that night. Should we even get into materials technology?

Last Edited by Project_Deimos on 01/25/2012 10:27 PM

I wish I can believe him, but it sounds like he's saying what he has to say dependant on the audience pure an simple.

They need to do something about space junk debris though. It's getting worse everywhere. If they don't do anything, we won't be able to launch anything up there.

That is a veritable GOLD MINE. The first successful retrieval company will make billions. EVERY bit of metal sent to space is worth bringing back.

Last Edited by Project_Deimos on 01/25/2012 10:30 PM

No one said, or even implied, it was totally "government exempt" except you.

NASA is a government operation.....or maybe you missed the memo on that?

You didn't listen to the debate apparently either.

Last Edited by Useless Cookie Eater on 01/25/2012 10:31 PM

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now i remember you.

you were the one who stood on the shore with columbus and laughingly told him that if he sailed past the horizon,he would fall to oblivion, because everyone knows the earth is flat and besides, you know darn well that god doesn't want us to learn anything new.( yeah thats right i'm that old, i was there}

One day it will be big business to "mine" the space junk and bring it back to earth, or to orbiting factories, or to bases on the Moon. All that "junk" is loaded with valuable metals such as gold and titanium to name a few.

fuckers nuts!

Let's let China open a few WalMarts and send their specially selected folk there for a couple bucks an hour. At least WalMart Earth pays minimum wage.

Kind of like Australia back in the day. (no offense, Aussies...the US is a bunch of Fleeing Euro Mongrels, too)

What is it exactly the Moon has that we don't anyway? There are millions of acres of US earth spaces that are vacant, especially in California and Texas and Nevada et al. Then there is Canada and The Americas and probably still room in Australia. And Asia, too.

And, what if there really are Moon People and they don't want immigrants?

We must be practical.

already bases on the moon -

already paid for by your hard earned dollars -

what benefits have you recouped so far from your prior investments in same?

didn't think so...

carry on

Hopefully they will mine Helium-3

IT IS ONLY TO GET THE FLORIDA VOTERS!
They were promised that Nasa would get funding, then layoffs.

This is to get the florida vote, then.............no!

Do a search dumb ass

Well lets see. Medical technology spun off from space technology has saved several family members and friends lives over the years. Products I use daily spun off from space technology make my life easier and safer.

Hmmm.....nope nothing good at all. I will join the sheeple now......

No real nazis left so jewish hollywood has to resurrect them yet again to remind us cattle on how evil us whites are .

something else occurred to me, you should probably put your tongue back in your cheek. that way you can suck on a rotten tooth as you tell the wright brothers that if god had wanted us to fly he'd have clad us in feathers and strapped a motor to our arse! hyuk hyuk hyuk

That is probably THE MOST IMPORTANT resource on the moon.
One dump truck full of that stuff can run THE ENTIRE COUNTRY for 1 year.

The 1960s space race was bogus. The American public was scared, using the prospect of a Red moon, into supporting massive funding for NASA, which was really just a clever way for the US military to divert R&D costs from its budget. We never trailed the Soviets in any meaningful technology. In fact, we led the way on ICBM technology, satellite photography, surveillance, i.e., anything that mattered. The Ruskies splashed a worthless beeping probe into semi-stable orbit, then followed with men, but their efforts were basically stunts, and their actual capabilities were far less impressive. And declassified records show that Eisenhower and Kennedy knew this, but could not reveal what they knew, for this would have shown our space-surveillance hand.

Another sham, empty gesture of the PR era. As Gerard DeGroot basically says in his book DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, the only real thing that's come out of the space program, besides the MIC tech weapon grid and a lot of lost cash, is the knowledge that everything in the universe worth having is right here on Earth. As John Glenn not-so-famously said when he stepped out of the LM onto the lunar surface after Armstrong, "Magnificent desolation."

Thanks for proving you have no idea how the economy actually works.

Too much retardedness to even respond to fully.



Last Edited by Useless Cookie Eater on 01/25/2012 10:59 PM

Delusional thinking. Cargo cult mentality. Technology won't save us.

Fucking moran! Pull your head out of your ass and do a search to see what all technology in use on a daily basis has come from the space program.

On second though go back to the flock like a good little sheeple.....

Does the government create jobs? Yes or no?
Is it OK for the government to create jobs under some circumstances but not under others? Who gets to make that call?

I am well aware that NASA is a government operation. I am also aware that the government is broke. Should we really borrow money from China or Saudi Arabia to colonize the moon? I think we have more pressing matters here on planet earth. Does the deficit matter sometimes but not others?

I listened to the debate as much as I could stomach. My gut seems to have a limited capacity for hypocrisy and inconsistency. So no I did not hang on to every word. And for every one hundred words I did hear I believed exactly zero.

Why? Why do people climb mountains? Cross oceans? Because we can! Also, a colony could start mining Helium 3 and would be good practice for future colonies on other worlds.

maybe someone will believe the old bastard there. somewhere where they might not be familiar with his work.

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