Posted on 01/26/2012 7:36:33 AM PST by The_Victor
The United States will have a permanent manned colony on the moon by 2020 if Newt Gingrich is in charge, the Republican presidential hopeful announced today (Jan. 25).
Gingrich laid out this goal during a speech in the city of Cocoa, on Florida's Space Coast. He also said that near-Earth space would be bustling with commercial activity by 2020, and that America would possess a next-generation propulsion system by then, allowing the nation to get astronauts to Mars quickly and efficiently.
"By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American," Gingrich said.
The former Speaker of the House made no apologies for the boldness of his amibitions, which depend primarily on the emergence of a vibrant commercial spaceflight industry. He said the U.S. space program needs a kick in the pants like the one President John F. Kennedy gave it in 1961, when he promised to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Your point being? As I recall Verne's moon expedition was shot from a giant cannon - a process which would have turned to paste any multicellular organism. As I remember he also had air and inhabitants on the moon. Are you claiming that Verne's/Heinlein's fictional plot devices are at some point in time going to turn into reality? Because if that's the case, then suddenly you're going to need a lunar atmosphere and lunar native inhabitants which is no more absurd than Heinlein's self sustaining lunar colony.
Edgar Rice Burroughs had John Carter on Mars with a breathable atmosphere and somewhat humanoid inhabitants. Does this mean that they're four armed Martian princesses?
“Your point being? As I recall Verne’s moon expedition was shot from a giant cannon - a process which would have turned to paste any multicellular organism. As I remember he also had air and inhabitants on the moon. Are you claiming that Verne’s/Heinlein’s fictional plot devices are at some point in time going to turn into reality?”
The details of how to accomplish the feats mentioned will of course differ from how such feats are actually accomplished, but that’s missing the forest for the trees. Verne was fiction, yet we went to the moon. Your inability to acknowledge the strategical importance of the moon as pointed out by Heinlein’s story is both short sighted and dangerous.
“Your point being? As I recall Verne’s moon expedition was shot from a giant cannon - a process which would have turned to paste any multicellular organism. As I remember he also had air and inhabitants on the moon. Are you claiming that Verne’s/Heinlein’s fictional plot devices are at some point in time going to turn into reality?”
The details of how to accomplish the feats mentioned will of course differ from how such feats are actually accomplished, but that’s missing the forest for the trees. Verne was fiction, yet we went to the moon. Your inability to acknowledge the strategic importance of the moon as pointed out by Heinlein’s story is both short sighted and dangerous.
Well, the Russians and Communist Chinese are planning this. Now, what do we suppose such bases will be used for by our enemies, hmmmmm?
LOL - you really f.....g believe that! Tell me, please, have you ever had even a college level course in physics, or chemistry? You space kadets' inability to distinguish reality from fiction is pathetic and indicative of a complete lack of analytic or quantitative ability.
"Strategic importance" pointed out in Heinlein's FICTION - y'all really amuse me in a sad sorry sort of way
Note: this topic is from January 2012. Thanks The_Victor. It's obviously not unconstitutional, as it has to do with the common defense -- radio telescopy from the back side of the Moon would yield a complete inventory of Earth crossers and other space debris, and do it faster.
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