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Trump’s Space Policy Boils Down To Going To Mars
Daily Caller ^ | 10 Nov, 2016 | ANDREW FOLLETT

Posted on 11/10/2016 9:15:10 PM PST by MtnClimber

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To: MtnClimber

By jove you are right, my bad, she IS going to Uranus.


21 posted on 11/10/2016 9:52:40 PM PST by HerrBlucher (For the sake of His sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Nonsense. Man can’t breath above a certain altitude
or underwater too but that didn’t stop us from going
there.
This is good news to me, set a goal, excel, and find
a way. Improvise, adapt, overcome!

Global warming meh.


22 posted on 11/10/2016 9:59:01 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: MtnClimber

Why do you think there’s no way back?


23 posted on 11/10/2016 10:21:33 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: MtnClimber

Could start a moon colony and populate it with Clinton moonbeams. Could also send them all the illegal drugs confiscated by the police as an incentive to go! Shoot, Hillary could be the first Moon Queen with her utopian society and they could truly live in their make believe bubble. No carbon footprint, no lunar warming, what’s to lose? Here’s my $10.


24 posted on 11/10/2016 10:27:23 PM PST by Billyv (Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
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To: \/\/ayne
I don’t think it’s worth it to send humans to Mars.

Oh yes, it is worth it ... if the people are Clintons, Obamas, or Bushes and there is no other way to get rid of them.

25 posted on 11/10/2016 10:27:40 PM PST by mvonfr
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To: rfp1234

Al Gore can be the compost toilet.


26 posted on 11/10/2016 10:45:13 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Beowulf9

I am sure in her mind, she is already there.


27 posted on 11/10/2016 10:45:45 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: RedStateRocker

Venus is,out. 800 degree surface temp and it rains sulfuric acid. No real minerals we cant find other places.

If we go we go outwards. Europa is probably the best chance of finding interesting stuff. Mars could be made a good outpost refuelling hop/stop in between. Potential there but probably not on a terraforming level, just not enough gravity to hold onto an atmosphere.


28 posted on 11/10/2016 10:49:45 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MtnClimber

Why do we want to go down into another gravity well when we have just fought so hard to get out of one?

There is lots and lots of very interesting stuff floating around in the asteroid belt. We need a big ship and a few dozen people on it to take a long tour.


29 posted on 11/11/2016 12:26:52 AM PST by CurlyDave
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To: MtnClimber

Gee going to Mrs instead of focusing on multi-sexual gendering, BLM, the environment, and Muslim relations - what does he think NASA is all about anyway???


30 posted on 11/11/2016 4:05:59 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: MtnClimber

There is no reason to go to Mars except to stoke our vain pride and say, “We did it”. There is no economic justification to offset the financial and human cost. Sending people there is not technically feasible; their muscles will atrophy in zero-gravity until they will be too weak to walk on Mars surface; they will die early deaths from radiation exposure; they may die on descent or fail to leave Mar’s surface. There is no practical way to colonize Mars. The fate of Jamestown ought to serve as a warning. Let’s prove the concept with a sustainable moon colony before attempting Mars.


31 posted on 11/11/2016 7:10:30 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and thse religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: mvonfr
Hmmm, sounds like The Marching Morons.
32 posted on 11/11/2016 7:52:40 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: MtnClimber

Remember how Australia was initially settled?


33 posted on 11/11/2016 8:12:54 AM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: Secret Agent Man

Ceres is the fuel stop.


34 posted on 11/11/2016 8:14:33 AM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: \/\/ayne

Yes, time to reread this!!!


35 posted on 11/11/2016 9:16:57 AM PST by mvonfr
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To: tet68
Man can’t breath above a certain altitude or underwater too but that didn’t stop us from going there.

In both cases, one is still protected by Earth's magnetic shield.

This is good news to me, set a goal, excel, and find a way. Improvise, adapt, overcome!

I agree. It's why I said "current technology".

36 posted on 11/11/2016 9:17:27 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Unless we have artificial gravity on board ship and in habitats on Mars, the Moon, Europa as well as protection from radiation, we will end up looking like this...


37 posted on 11/11/2016 9:28:14 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: mvonfr
I'd buy that for a quarter!
38 posted on 11/11/2016 9:52:34 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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