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Gingrich Space Plan Promises the Moon, Literally: Lunar Base by 2020
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| 25 January 2012 Time: 07:07 PM ET
| Mike Wall
Posted on 01/26/2012 7:36:33 AM PST by The_Victor
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To: W. W. SMITH
1; helium three, immense value fuel for power plantsWhat power plants? There are no power plants that use He3 as a fuel. There are no power plants under construction that use He3 as a fuel. There are no power plants planned that use He3 as a fuel. Fusion power is a pipe dream currently. While not a bad concept, no one has come up with a way to make it work except on an explosive basis.
As to #3 this is something that goes on on a daily basis without the insane microbiologist to direct it. Deadly antibiotic resistant bacteria are constantly evolving simply because we treat people with antibiotics, and some people succumb, but so far it hasn't ended the human race. Even AIDS - about as deadly a disease as you can imagine - hasn't made that much of a dent.
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posted on
01/26/2012 8:56:09 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: Eepsy
You’re right, and I’ll bet that is why he wants it. There are long-term considerations.
To: from occupied ga
Do you have any idea of what it will cost us allowing the chicoms and the russians to have a base on the moon while we sit vulnerable and living in the 20th Century? Or perhaps going back to the 19th Century... it cost less don't you know. One can have no vision and belief in American Exceptionalism if one does not believe that this is in our best interest. Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
LLS
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posted on
01/26/2012 8:58:21 AM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(Recession: You have no job* Depression: I have no job* Recovery: obama has no job!)
To: from occupied ga
Why? And don't give me that "high ground" stuff. If that were true, then Mars would be better still, and Pluto the very best place to be (strategically speaking) No, Mars and Pluto are not in our gravity well. But the moon is. You can lob stuff from the moon to earth far easier that shooting at the moon from earth.
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posted on
01/26/2012 8:58:33 AM PST
by
kosciusko51
(Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
To: OHelix
That was one point of Moon Base Alpha:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezzsTnZX5Jg
As long as the bad haircuts are gone and uniforms lose the bell bottoms, build it. I want my Eagles, U-Shaped Energy Weapon (extension of fist if no power), and moonbuggies.
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:00:07 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
To: dfwgator
Well if newt's plan goes into effect... he said it would be an AMERICAN base. Our guys need to land and walk away into the arms of their families... not bounce around in a diving bell on some frozen tundra in russia.
LLS
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:01:12 AM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(Recession: You have no job* Depression: I have no job* Recovery: obama has no job!)
To: jpsb
H3 is thought to be the ideal fuel for fusion based power plants.What fusion power plants? When they start building fusion power plants then your idea might have some merit, but currently there aren't any fusion power plants existing, under construction or even in the planning stage.
Also, if do not know what else is on the moon
Nonsense - we have an excellent idea of what is there
except rather deficient in the heavier elements.
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:02:08 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: from occupied ga
Newt’s plan is for inner-city youth build the moonbase, thus saving money and instilling a work ethic.
To: The_Victor
Gingrich proposed to help spur spaceflight action by setting up a system of prizes. He would establish a $10 billion prize, for example, for the first company or entity to get astronauts to Mars. [...] He added that he would allocate 10 percent of NASA's budget to help fund the prizes he's proposing. I've got a better idea: cut NASA's budget to zero, let the free enterprise system provide the "prizes," and keep the feds within their Constitutionally enumerated powers.
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:05:00 AM PST
by
JustSayNoToNannies
(A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
To: W. W. SMITH
Small minded individuals with myopic vision please move to the corner and remain silent while the MEN advance the human species. A real man would use his own money, liberal.
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:07:10 AM PST
by
JustSayNoToNannies
(A free society's default policy: it's none of government's business.)
To: OHelix
I imagine the greatest value of a moon base would be as a launch platform for deeper space missions.How would that be an advantage? (Keeping in mind that everything you put on the moon would have to be shipped up from earth anyway, and then decellerated to land on the moon without making a new crater, and then have to be boosted out of the lunar gravity well to get going again)
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:07:10 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: dfwgator
Well if newt's plan goes into effect... he said it would be an AMERICAN base. Our guys need to land in a reusable vehicle and walk away into the arms of their families... not bounce around in a diving bell on some frozen tundra in russia. America cannot put a man into space today... a muslin usurper is president. THAT is not my vision for America.
LLS
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:08:32 AM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(Recession: You have no job* Depression: I have no job* Recovery: obama has no job!)
To: transducer
Newts plan is for inner-city youth build the moonbase, thus saving money and instilling a work ethicLOL
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:09:08 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: The_Victor
Would be more than a little interesting to see Newt in hyperdrive trying to out-JFK JFK, out-FDR FDR, out-TR TR, out-LBJ LBJ, out-Wilson Wilson and out-Reagan Reagan all in a single administration.
I think Silent Cal would be the only 20th Century president that he wouldn’t attempt to resemble.
To: kosciusko51
“You can lob stuff from the moon to earth far easier that shooting at the moon from earth.”
world war iii will be over long before anything from the moon gets here.
To: Leep
Give me space. Leave the liberals to destroy earth.
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:10:47 AM PST
by
struggle
(http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
To: All
Anyone know Newt’s handle of FR?
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:11:08 AM PST
by
Leep
(It's gonna be a Newt day!)
To: from occupied ga
Alaska gave us nothing in the beginning.
Oil? Not until the 20th century.
Gold? Not until around 1900.
Fir? We were not short of that to the point to buy the place.
And anything we did get out of there cost much more to ship back here then it was worth for the first 40 years. Most people wanted the government to instead rebuild the nation after the war.
No one called Stewards Icebox because they knew it was full of gold and oil.
The point is that you stake the territory, then you get what you can. Costs will fall as new methods are employed.
Or you can leave it all to other countries that will gladly sell the spoils to us at a greatly inflated cost.
To: Lady Lucky
Do you understand his remarks about prizes?And just whose pocket would the prize come from? If it were worth going there there wouldn be any need for taxpayer funded incentives. Corporations would be feverishly working to get there and make a profit. I ask again, What raw material is worth $1,783,000 an ounce.
You space cheerleaders can cheer all you want as long as it's YOUR money you're spending.
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posted on
01/26/2012 9:14:24 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
To: The_Victor
Don't mess with Newt! He is the
honey badger!
Newt takes what he wants! Newt does not give a $hit!
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