If spending $50B on a moon base could reduce by $50B the money spent on some of the worse government programs, that would be a net win even if the moon base efforts proved totally worthless. Letting the money stay in the hands of the productive citizens who earn it, or letting it remain available for investment elsewhere, might be even better, but Democrats certainly wouldn’t want that.
If we could get the “stimulus” (slush fund) money back from all the Obama friends that it was given to, we could build a base on the moon and probably Vesta too.
Obama has single handed killed the US space program and help fill our schools with mediocre union teachers more concerned with political correctness, the pseudo science of global warming and making sure that kids never have to compete least they "feel bad" than teaching them math and science.
Since Liberals are so good at targeting specific taxes at groups whose interests they want to attack, and they see that as a legitimate use of the government’s taxing authority, then lets take a snap shot of the nation’s registered voters, as of November 2012, and place a $50 billion tax on all registered Democrats, apportioned “progressively” based on income, and fund the moon base project with it - from each according to his ability (Democrats hold more wealth in the nation than Republicans) to each according to his need (none, they’re useless).
Newt was right when he said US should put up a prize and private companies would compete to achieve success in space. The remark “No success no prize. Nothing lost!”.
This is what he meant.
http://www.xprize.org/
http://www.virgingalactic.com/overview/
http://www.space.com/1226-rutan-white-knight-carries-37-space-plane-aloft.html
1961 JFK’s speech would be enough for Robamney to have fired him if he was CIC. Those with no eyes to the future are not what we want leading this country.
Not to be picky, but to equate the title incorporating a $50 billon dollar price tag with a colony on the moon is downright ludicrous.
Who is it?
Nobody knows, or if they do, they are not telling.
The Japanese launched three satellites to orbit and photograph the moon in 2007. Google launched "Google Moon" shortly thereafter where you can view these unadulterated images.
In one particular spot, there appears to be some kind of mining operation going on... see the images as released by the Japanese Space Organization that took the pics and released them and shared them with Google.
Somebody is up there doing something.
One thing you could assume, that would make sense, is that a body like the moon would be a great place to mine asteroids, as they would strike and be easy to recover. The moon has no erosion, no rain or elements that can corrode recoverable resources - so a rare-element asteroid that crashed into the moon would be recoverable billions of years after it first struck.
So all of these images occur around craters, as if some valuable mining/recovery process is going on.
Don't believe it? Take a look. Look up the images by their coordinates on Google Moon or on the photos released by Japan's space agency.
Any explanations?
we have our heads crammed way to far up our collective fundaments...
unless we get a ‘LEADER’ soon we will be the new 3rd world.
Space exploration and scientific endeavors are for advanced prosperous societies with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are not that country anymore.
Read that. Newt's right. There is this much[-]room between Obama's health care policy and Mitt's health care policy, and I suggest between their space leadership too.
Voters need to read this and then think of how Newt is campaigning and how this can succeed if enough of the “silent majority” rallies from their funk and acts now!
The GE Years: What Made Reagan Reagan [Newt said this book explained Ronald Reagan's leadership]