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Playing with the little president playset.
If ever entangled in an annoying debate with an America-hating international, the fail-safe closer is: “We put 12 men on the moon. What have you done?”
He will mosf likely decide .... that he is present.
Giving hundreds of billions to a bunch of corrupt blood suckers is an investment but funding high tech is a money waster? Only 3 more years until this loser is given the boot.
He’ll appoint a czar, have a summit, give a lot of speaches. Outcome: nothing.
We should concede world leadership in science, technology and space exploration.
Hand the mantle to the Chinese. /s
Do we get to nominate the humans??
Michael Moore comes to mind...
Hell, yeah! It’s worth it!
I think Obama should be the first to try it. I might even send a donation.
This isn’t a very important decision. NASA has been a can that’s been kicked down the road for decades now. They do unmanned flights just fine and there’s no real need to do manned flights.
We support a moonbase, even a well developed one, prior to Mars settlement for the very reason we have procrastinated on returning to the Moon for forty years; that is, don't extend so far and so expensively that the Left (primarily female) will argue the bleeding heart priorities-at-home rant. Start relatively close-by where the infrastructure of extraterrestrial basing can be developed with less cost, while also exploiting the Moon's own inherent benefits. The latter of which includes the low energy cost of moon launching into extended realms, although admittedly the question of energy availability on and from the Moon is an essential one.
Incidentally this latter question on energy availability for Moonbase survival will inject the thermodynamic basis of economics into its proper perspective, for which The Suntrade Institute has argued all along. Just one of the side benefits that comes from man's exploration of the extended universe.
Johnny Suntrade
“Grow or die”. Right now we’re committed to dying...
POTUS has no decision-making skills!
I don’t want another country (particularly one who is as big a threat as China) at the top of a gravity well over us. Guess I took the lessons of “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” to heart.
It’s the WATER..!!!
All my life and as a very serious sci-fi fan I have yet to see any references of an Islamic society in the future, I think the day mankind starts to seriously reach out for the stars Islam will stay behind and become a stagnant polluted cult of retroactive self destructive coalition that will restrict its followers from advancing to the future.
If by a remote chance we made first contact I swear Islam will go on a jihad against any new species, a total global Jihad as they cannot comprehend another species unlike their own kind, they cannot accept it, they must assimilate.
Islam is our Borg so to speak.
Earth’s Moon =
NASA blows 24 Gallons of WATER Ice out of a 60 foot wide Lunar crater
Gosh, if only we could figure out a way to put NASA and Obama on the same page. Maybe NASA could create a community organizer office, or start generating press releases condemning Israel and calling for the abandonment of missile defense system deployments in Europe.
Hansen et al at work here:
Space travel to save the environment makes sense in this time of climate change
San Diego Union Tribune | 11/14/09 | Kim Stanley Robinson
Posted on 11/15/2009 7:29:13 AM PST by KevinDavis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2386871/posts
Thanks KevinDavis for both pings.