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Neil deGrasse Tyson urges America to challenge China to a space race
Houston Space Examiner ^ | May 28, 2015 | Mark R. Whittington

Posted on 05/28/2015 3:58:37 AM PDT by Marcus

According to a Tuesday story in the UK edition of the International Business Times, Neil degrease Tyson, the celebrity astrophysicist and media personality, advocated a space race between the United States and China. The idea is that such a race would spur innovation and cause industry to grow. The Apollo race to the moon caused a similar explosive period of scientific research and engineering development.

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: Government; History; Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; bush41; china; cosmos; georgehwbush; nasa; neildegrassetyson; sendneiltomars; spacerace

1 posted on 05/28/2015 3:58:37 AM PDT by Marcus
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To: Marcus

Is he going to pay for it?

Otherwise, he’s just another liberal idiot.


2 posted on 05/28/2015 4:01:58 AM PDT by JJ_Folderol (Diagonally parked in a parallel universe...)
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To: Marcus

We’d staff it with 50% Chinese nationals who would steal the work and send it home. Or we’d forget to secure the communications network and they’d waltz right in. Or they’d make a “donation” to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation and Hillary would have us simply hand over our work in exchange. Jonny Chung would return to his nefarious deeds for the Chicoms.

Seriously, this worked in the 60s, but would be a total disaster fifty years on. The author is an uninformed idiot.


3 posted on 05/28/2015 4:08:22 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: Marcus

We would lose the race. The National Muslim Outreach Agency no longer remembers how to put payloads into space.


4 posted on 05/28/2015 4:08:56 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: Marcus

China would win.


5 posted on 05/28/2015 4:10:12 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Marcus

He’s so friggin ‘progressive ‘. Cosmos so politically bogus, I went from thinking ‘this guy is ok’ to hating the guy.


6 posted on 05/28/2015 4:10:50 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Marcus
NASA's busted. Somebody should tell that supersmart nitwit Neil that his boy took all the money and wasted it.

The Obama Legacy in Planetary Exploration

It is frustrating, at a time when other nations are in ascendancy in space, that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama seems committed to undermining the nation's own solar system exploration program...Over the course of the current decade, most operating NASA planetary missions will come to an end. Under current administration plans, the U.S. footprint in the solar system will radically shrink, and the nation's capability to resurge when, and if, resources become available will be crippled, perhaps permanently. This will be the legacy of the Obama administration — the loss of a crown jewel of American science and technology.

7 posted on 05/28/2015 4:17:01 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Marcus

No way. Not unless we can build solar and wind-powered boosters.......


8 posted on 05/28/2015 4:31:25 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (I wish someone would tell me what "diddy wah diddy" means.....)
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To: Marcus

Having more technology for Generation XBox to worship isn’t going to change human nature.

Getting into a techno pissing contest with the Chinese won’t solve anything.


9 posted on 05/28/2015 4:39:41 AM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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Space race? NASA doesn’t even have an operational manned launch vehicle.


10 posted on 05/28/2015 4:42:17 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: Marcus

Why did Nixon advocate Apollo-Soyuz?

11 posted on 05/28/2015 4:44:25 AM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Demagogic party spokesman Neil deGrasse Tyson also says private enterprise won't get us to Mars.
12 posted on 05/28/2015 5:10:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: Marcus

Once the Dem’s figure out how to register Martian voters....


13 posted on 05/28/2015 5:15:44 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: Marcus

We can’t, we have no money. People think this guy is smart.


14 posted on 05/28/2015 5:50:45 AM PDT by Sea Warrior (Who's the enemy?)
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To: SunkenCiv

Nice collection, thanks for posting.

Ever notice that progressive buzzwords and bullshyte don’t launch manned spacecraft into orbit?


15 posted on 05/28/2015 5:57:50 AM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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To: Sea Warrior
 People Progressives think this guy is smart.

There.  Fixed it.


>>We can’t, we have no money. 

"from each according to their ability, to each according to their need"

Shut up and shovel, it's for the good of the collective.

16 posted on 05/28/2015 6:01:39 AM PDT by HLPhat (This space is intentionally blank.)
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To: Sea Warrior
We can’t, we have no money. People think this guy is smart.

That's the trouble with gurus: everyone thinks his guru is smart.

One of the pieces of blather I read in this article is that he would hope such a space race would spur industry. What a crock! Leftists never hope for that; they hope for government expansion, period. Now, in parentheses, somewhere before the period (or inside one of those bubbly clouds they use in cartoons to show the guy's secret motives), it should say: "I would hope that this would help us find LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE, maybe twice as fast". Finding life out there is the humanist's ultimate pipe dream. You'll notice the phrase inevitably occurs in any rationale-statement of these agenda-scientists.

Most of these guys aren't fully-fledged scientists at all. They are mainly propagandists.

17 posted on 05/28/2015 6:08:27 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Marcus
Space race??? What planet is this lightweight living on? If we're gonna challenge China to *any* kind of race it should be to an aircraft carrier/advanced fighter jet/nuclear submarine race.
18 posted on 05/28/2015 6:16:20 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama;America's Ambulance Chaser-In-Chief)
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To: Marcus

19 posted on 05/28/2015 6:41:28 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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