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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

Posted on 08/07/2025 8:05:21 AM PDT by Red Badger

If the average person is just as stupid as Vladimir Duthiers, I'm beginning to understand why they think Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a genius.

CBS host questions if it is a good idea to colonize the moon because “we know how the Age of Colonialism worked on this planet." pic.twitter.com/bof7kap98O— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) August 6, 2025

Vladimir: Will [the moon] A., serve as a functional life source eventually for human beings? And B., we know how the age of colonialism worked on this planet. Should we be trying to colonize and saying there's a keep-out zone that no other countries can participate in... ?

This dude seriously asked if humanity colonizing the moon, an empty space rock, might be bad because of the "evils" of the past colonial age. (Woke Mind Virus: Level 100)

Even hard-left atheist goober Neil DeGrasse Tyson was flummoxed.

Tyson: 'The real problem with colonization history in Western civilization is that there were people already there. There are no moon beings that are being displaced...'

Vlad: 'As far as we know.'

You know it's really bad when Neil is the one making sane points like, there are no native moon people. 🤦‍♂️— Freedom Rings (@fr33domR1ngz) August 6, 2025

He wrote out this idea pre-show, thought it over, and went with it live on air, all the while thinking he was going to score a woke point or two pic.twitter.com/ULa2aIJDRY— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) August 6, 2025

How do people like this have high-paying jobs on national TV?


TOPICS: Astronomy; History; Military/Veterans; Travel
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To: TangoLimaSierra
They're talking about moving to the moon, not moving the moon.

Exactly. They're talking about one thing and ignoring that any change to the moon's mass will affect its orbit.



41 posted on 08/07/2025 8:39:03 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Red Badger

To many black Americans EVERYTHING is rooted in racism, right down to the most innocuous experiences.


42 posted on 08/07/2025 8:39:04 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger

Them sharks they are a jumpin’ at SeeBS!!!!


43 posted on 08/07/2025 8:40:29 AM PDT by central_va (The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: V_TWIN

Thus, they invented ‘Microaggressions’............


44 posted on 08/07/2025 8:41:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: bray

Well, the moon is white after all.....so therefore it MUST be racist.


45 posted on 08/07/2025 8:41:29 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: PIF

Another forgotten bit of space history:

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


46 posted on 08/07/2025 8:41:39 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

There was some idiotic movie in the early 2000s (I think “The Time Machine”) where they built condos on the moon. This caused the moon to disintegrate and ruined life on Earth for a few millenia.


47 posted on 08/07/2025 8:42:47 AM PDT by rbg81 (=)
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To: Uncle Miltie; All

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

Talk about government waste.


It is not as if the Moon is the military “high ground” which can be used to dominate all of earth.../S

Low Earth orbit and Geosynchronous orbits are the current high ground. Both sides have access to it in the Russian/Ukraine war.

Only one side had usable access in the start of the Gulf wars.

You don’t actually have to “win” the war, but you can prevent the other side from having exclusive access.


48 posted on 08/07/2025 8:43:52 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: BenLurkin

49 posted on 08/07/2025 8:47:17 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: PIF

COMPLETE waste of resources. It’s a rock, without air, food or water.

Probably a trillion dollars to establish a geodesic dome for 6 people.


50 posted on 08/07/2025 8:47:17 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (What do Nitzy, Angelino97 and Liz have in common?)
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To: Red Badger

This is the same idiocy that led some developers to stop using the term “master bedroom” in the BLM heyday


51 posted on 08/07/2025 8:47:55 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: GingisK

And breaking windows with hammers keeps glaziers employed!


52 posted on 08/07/2025 8:48:58 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (What do Nitzy, Angelino97 and Liz have in common?)
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To: T.B. Yoits
They're talking about one thing and ignoring that any change to the moon's mass will affect its orbit.

You think we will pile enough mass to alter the orbit of the moon? Seriously doubt it.
Anyway, since the moon is gradually moving away from us, maybe a little more mass would help keep it around.

53 posted on 08/07/2025 8:50:07 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Red Badger

Reminiscent of the guy on CNN who pondered whether missing Flight 383 may have been sucked into a black hole.


54 posted on 08/07/2025 8:50:39 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Red Badger

And microaggressions are anything “they” say they are....which makes it a convenient universal bolt on excuse to perpetually have a grievance.


55 posted on 08/07/2025 8:52:06 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

We’d have to go at night when it’s cooler!


56 posted on 08/07/2025 8:53:01 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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To: TangoLimaSierra
You think we will pile enough mass to alter the orbit of the moon? Seriously doubt it.

Any mass will affect its orbit. It's current mass has been altered by asteroids, comets, and meteoroids but who knows what "straw will break the camel's back"?

57 posted on 08/07/2025 8:57:35 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: PIF

And I am a brain surgeon/rocket scientist.


58 posted on 08/07/2025 9:04:23 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: Red Badger

1000 times harder to colonize the moon or Mars than Antarctica. So I suggest they start there first!


59 posted on 08/07/2025 9:04:32 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Red Badger

Ming might have something to say about it...


60 posted on 08/07/2025 9:05:53 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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