Moon industrialists interested in the idea
Moon industrialists interested in the idea
I love it! We’ve got to get rid of the Obama idea that the US is finished, it’s all over, and now the Third World will ride in and take over. We’ll just quietly collapse and fade away here in the US.
The moon project made me feel hopeful, for about the first time in I don’t know how long.
At least Gingrich believes in America and America’s “can do” attitude, unlike the present occupant in the White House.
Yeah, well Romney is great at big plans. He’s got a 159 step plan to...
I love the Speakers big ideas.
I must be missing something. If the point of spending loads of money is to "create jobs", why not just hire those ten million people to dig holes and fill them back up again? Is there a point to the goal? Or is it the same as all the millions of dollars Obama spent creating jobs in solar power and electric vehicles?
The mission to land men on the moon in the 60's made sense. We needed to spend the money developing the technical ability to spy on the Soviets from space and to rain nuclear warheads down on their heads, without coming out and saying that that was what we were doing.
Unless there is some tangible point to Newt's moonbase project, it doesn't make any more sense to me than any spendthrift racking up gobs of debt on his credit cards buying pointless stuff just for the thrill of spending. I guess the one difference is that, like with all government projects, they get to have fun spending other people's money instead of their own.
Newt: NASA=To the Moon and beyond!
(And a fringe benefit is that a moon colony can house a lot of Ron Paul supporters.)
"Public funds" = my money. He can't have it - let him build a moon base with his own money.
I’m told that the debate, I didn’t watch, made Newt look like Ron Paul when talked about going to space. Romney said, “If a manager of one of my companies suggested that we should invest in a lunar colony, I’d fire him!!!”
How is that line playing in Florida, Folks, because you Newt will be the new Speaker Moombeam on Leno and Letterman tonight.
I think NEWT MUST seize on this. I heard him talk at length at Cocoa, FL and it brought tears to my eyes.
NEWT must give this message clear and confident that Space is an American venture.
GO NEWT!!!!
I’d rather Newt said we would end cancer as a better use of our money but he might be saving that for a State that does a lot of medical research.
He’s driving the narrative right now, that’s a good thing. It’s going to be a tough fight but the national polls even by libs showing Newt up give me hope. I’m actually surprised Romdog isn’t beating him in the polls nationally after all the smears and the GOPE going nuclear.
On the topic of this thread, when Newt mentioned this last night Romney accused him of pandering!!!! This coming from ROMNEY!
Building a moon base is a wonderful idea, don’t get me wrong. However, it raises a lot of questions. How are we going to pay for it? We have no money. What about treaties we signed regarding space?
In a nation preoccupied with X-boxes and American Idol while waiting for the next government subsidy, who's got the time or the vision to think about the future?
Frankly, Newt's speech was one of the most inspiring I've heard in years, filled with anecdotes, history, and vision.
Here's the link to Newt's speech on C-Span: Space Policy
‘Gingrich Moon’ would be a good name for a hard rock drummer!
There are already designs in the can. There are space stations for sale ast retail. There are ships designed.
All that is needed is a leader.
The effort need not be unilateral.
I love this idea! I especially love that he plans to free the entrepreneurial Spirit of America to accomplish this. Newt said up to 90% would be free enterprise based. Heck yeah!
Romney, for all his glaring faults, at least recognized that there is no potential profit that would motivate private companies to start moon industries. There are no resources on the moon, including the oft-discussed Helium-3, that could possibly be extracted and sold at a price on earth that could cover the cost of setting up an industrial base on the moon. With no private industries, the cheese stands alone; NASA will have to build and run the entire base. And no, the base will not “pay for itself,” or be able to produce anything that we cannot already produce on earth at a lower cost. It would be “cool,” but it would basically be a financial loss of hundreds of billions at a bare minimum.
P.S.: The private companies touted by Mr. Gingrich are currently aiming at putting satellites into earth orbit. That’s where the money is; you can make profits putting communications satellites up, but at the moment there are no profits in moon-mining.
Newt Visionary ping!
Maybe we should work on being able to send Americans up into Earth’s orbit before committing to a Moon base, just a crazy thought.
Look everybody, I’ve been reading all these posts and I have just one thing to say, the sooner we get to the Moon and dig up the Black Monolith, the better.