This CBS host's objection to "colonizing" the moon was so dumb that even Neil DeGrasse Tyson was flabbergasted

Not The Bee ^ | August 07, 2025 | Harris Rigby

[Uncle Miltie]

Billions of dollars wasted going to places that do not support carbon and water based life forms.

Talk about government waste.

[cgbg]

“Billions of dollars wasted going to places that do not support carbon and water based life forms.”

The government is going to beat that for waste.

They will spend the money and still not go there.

Much of the money will be spent on propagandists and graphic artists.

Is 2025 fun or what?

[butlerweave]

Neil DeGrasse Tyson = ROFL

[bobbo666]

Why any surprise a’tall? CBS.

[jroehl]

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a complete media creation. Completely without merit. A 100% DEI celebrity.

[T.B. Yoits]

Yeah, messing with the only moon we have, potentially affecting gravity, tides, and menstruation cycles.

Sounds like a plan. What could go wrong?

[ClearCase_guy]

We should play it safe and colonize the sun instead.

[cgbg]

I enjoy NGT as comedy—definitely better than late night TV.

[Uncle Miltie]

For $288,000,000,000.00, we got Tang, pretty pictures and bragging rights?

“ a reasonable figure for the total cost of U.S. moon exploration (Apollo, Gemini, and robotic lunar programs) in today’s dollars (2025) is approximately $280–$300 billion, with $288 billion being a frequently cited value for the combined efforts.” - Grok.

[simpson96]

Only leftist parents would name their black child “Vladimir”.

[BenLurkin]

Is he trying to say that colonizing is a bad thing?

[cgbg]

By 2030 AI graphics will be good enough that they can fake all of it and nobody will be the wiser.

That would save us a lot of money.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I once saw a cartoon that had astronauts finding Alice Kramden there. She would probably enjoy the company of the “colonists”.

[smokingfrog]

As a white person, I just have to say that I don’t care if carbon based life is there or not. Even if there is a small chance of some life form being there, I want to steal their land from them just to prove my racial superiority.

[Red Badger]

[CandyFloss]

Let’s test whether robots can survive and reproduce there first. Exclusively tapping the resources of the moon and the sun. Then the question is how can we tax them, generating a profit?

[Red Badger]

He’s saying that there might be Moon beings there that would object....................

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_the_Lifemaker

[bray]

This is unfair to the indigenous people of the moon.