Posted on 04/24/2017 2:33:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What we are reporting here isn't fake news. But it doesn't feel exactly like real news, either. It's in that foggy realm of Trump news in which everything is slightly ambiguous and wobbly and internally inconsistent and almost certainly improvisational and not actually grounded in what you could call “government policy.” What happened was: Trump called the International Space Station and talked to astronauts and, in passing, mentioned that he's going to send Americans to Mars, and soon, like really lickety-split.
Trump was marking the historic achievement of astronaut Peggy Whitson, the commander of the International Space Station, who set a record for most days in space by an American astronaut. (Also on the call from the Oval Office were Ivanka Trump, who spoke about the administration's efforts to encourage women and girls to get involved in STEM fields, and astronaut Kate Rubins.)
During the call, the president asked Whitson and fellow American astronaut Jack Fischer a question:
TRUMP: “Tell me: Mars, what do you see a timing for actually sending humans to Mars? Is there a schedule and when would you see that happening?”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I volunteer Hillary and Pelosi go first.
Maybe returning to the moon would make more sense than going to Mars.
....oh, and Chuck Schumer. Send him as well.
How about we train a bunch of liberals to go, you know, to save Mars from Martian warming or something.
No, we’ve already put dogs in space.
May we nominate who to send ?
Moon first- it’ll pay for itself.
And make a Mars trip cheaper and easier.
Trump’s chats with Elon Musk are suddenly much more interesting.
Also on the call from the Oval Office were Ivanka Trump, who spoke about the administration’s efforts to encourage women and girls to get involved in STEM fields, and astronaut Kate Rubins...
Yeah I know everybody loves her.
To me she’s another leftist feminist. A pretty one :)
SEPARATE. SPREAD HATE. GET EM TO VOTE.
Men against women.
Boys against girls.
What against black.
Etc.
HOW ABOUT JUST ####ING TEACHING ALL KIDS THE SAME AND SEE WHO DOES THE BEST?!?!?
Huh Ivanka? Sweety pie?
WHITE against... :) sorry.
Didn’t Cher volunteer to go?
Ping.
Too late. The Martians already destroyed their planet.
Should be cheap enough to do.
Not like we have a 20 trillion dollar debt or anything.
I heard obama wanted to go to Uranus.
I want that money used to remove illegal aliens from the U.S.A.
Still a lot of technical problems to overcome first.
Just what I was thinking, there is really no purpose for going to Mars other than to say we’ve been there. Plus it’s an insane amount of distance, you’d have to wait until it is in the right position, then pack enough supplies such as food, water for 9 months and that is just one way! Think how much food and water just one person goes through in 9 months. To me it would be a suicide mission unless we found some way to put a person into hibernation.
Got nauseous reading first few lines of intro :)
Did you know that the book “pokes you in the chest” with brutal questions?
I’d like to poke the writer in the face.
You have to think outside of the box and expand the horizons.........
Look what the Wright brothers did for aviation. Look what the first moon landing did for technology that allowed us to even get there and ultimately place a rover on Mars........
You can't focus on the moon, Mars is the next crucial step in ultimate planet exploration and space travel
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