[hellbender]

Do you have any idea how much it would cost to establish you on the moon with your rail gun or whatever, compared to what that expenditure would yield in terms of earthly weapons? We can't even afford to eliminate some towelheaded barbarians here on earth. We sit by while the Russians design advanced aircraft in cahoots with India. We sit by while Iran develops nuclear weapons, fearful that stopping them might cut off our oil supply. Our antimissile defenses have been gutted. Our advanced aircraft have been cancelled. Yet you expect us to play around exploring Mars?? Get real.

Our junket to the moon, wonderful as it was, was a classic fascist venture designed to glorify the state. It was started by a spoiled rich playboy kid (JFK)who never did a damned piece of real work, yet pledged billions to that project, while betraying the Cuban exiles, thereby setting up the closest we have ever been to nuclear war. The priorities and the issues are the same as they were then. It astounds me that so-called conservatives think billions spent on space are somehow justified.

[GraceG]

>> Our junket to the moon, wonderful as it was, was a classic fascist venture designed to glorify the state. It was started by a spoiled rich playboy kid (JFK)who never did a damned piece of real work, yet pledged billions to that project, while betraying the Cuban exiles, thereby setting up the closest we have ever been to nuclear war. The priorities and the issues are the same as they were then. It astounds me that so-called conservatives think billions spent on space are somehow justified. <<

What we really need are solid property rights defined on other planets and private enterprise can do the rest.

[PIF]

Wonder what you’ll say to the Chinese when they are in that position? Or the Russians, or the Indians?

I think you are just another progressive troll with absolutly no sense of the future. Keep studying your navel, maybe you’ll find some more lint to pick.