Second segment of Newt and Greta
Newt Gingrich's Jan 25, 2012 space policy speech to voters
If we surrender the Moon the Chinese will colonize it and build consumer goods there that will utilize the low gravity, I cannot say what offhand but what they lack in quality they will make up in quantity, we cannot allow the moon to be turned into a Chinese labor camp.
If we had six or seven space flights a day taking off from Florida (or from Texas or some other place with suitable conditions) and an active spaceport, imagine how our economies would boom! And the mineral wealth would stimulate all sorts of other industries and provide sources that would be under our control, an important consideration.
Otherwise, they'll be under Chinese control. They have said they will get to the moon by 2020, and if they get there, you can bet they're going to take it over.
Romney’s idea of “vision” is limited to office supply chains and sporting goods stores. How terrifically underwhelming.
Dr. James C. Fletcher was adamant about the importance of seeking out and communicating with extraterrestrials, insisting that it could be “the most significant achievement of this millennium, perhaps the key to our survival as a species.”
Not to say that Mormons were always gung-ho for space exploration. Launius describes how pre-1950s Mormon apostle and church president Joseph Fielding Smith spoke out against space exploration as a waste of time — that humans should concern themselves with stewardship of Earth and that God would surely check any human excursions into space.
That phrase alone moved people it inspired them to go and seek their fortune, to live freely. They had to be self reliant, they invented ways to survive and to exploit the resources available to them.
Now I know not everyone was "John Wayne", heck even John Wayne wasn't "John Wayne" but the opportunity was there, not just children were inspired but adults who craved and knew true freedom went west, just like they will move off planet if allowed.
I have always thought we stopped moving forward for one simple reason, Power and Control.
The one thing governments have learned from the Great American Experiment, is that colonies eventually thrive and then they become independent. Look at Washington D.C. and the hall monitors that run it, heck look at your neighborhood association, bitter little people who demand you live as they say not as they do.
Space is the next frontier, the next resource to exploit, the next expansion of the human spirit and it will happen with or with out America.
Romney and people like him can't see past their own power and control for the greater good.
Damn flatlander, at least that was my initial response to his statement thursday night.
It is time for man to fix his goal. It is time for man to plant
the germ of his highest hope.
Still is his soil rich enough for it. But that soil will one day
be poor and exhausted, and no lofty tree will any longer be able to
grow thereon.
Alas! there cometh the time when man will no longer launch the arrow
of his longing beyond man- and the string of his bow will have
unlearned to whizz!
I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a
dancing star. I tell you: ye have still chaos in you.
Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to
any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man,
who can no longer despise himself.
Lo! I show you the last man.
“What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a
star?”- so asketh the last man and blinketh.
The earth hath then become small, and on it there hoppeth the last
man who maketh everything small. His species is ineradicable like that
of the ground-flea; the last man liveth longest.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
lunar missions are crazy but magical underwear is sane- got it Mitt. BTW, how many grandmothers did you have Mitt?
I’m sorry to say Newt was not on his game and could have knocked this out of the park if he had only thought of harkening to JFK’s challenge to put a man on the moon within 10 years and out having accomplishing same and then went on to list all of the subsequent inventions and benefits to mankind we enjoy today as a result thereof.
Get real.
Off the top of my head...
No solution yet to micro-gravity damage to human beings...no solution yet for long term protection from solar radiation and cosmic rays...no solution yet for Moon based food, oxygen, and water supply...no experience in mining a micro-gravity environment...no knowledge of long term impact of regolith (moon dust) on man and machines...not one of the allegedly priceless minerals on the moon has ever been tested commercially on Earth...how long before the Green Party demands the Moon be designated a pristine wilderness area?...the Space Station, in low Earth orbit, has cost $100 billion for construction and maintenance...on the Moon, multiply by 10.
I absolutely believe the day will come when man can travel Star Wars style through the Milky Way Galaxy.
But that day is thousands of years in the future.
We should be spending most of the manned space budget on robotic explorers and space telescopes.
Last August, I met with Rick Santorum personally. I explained to him two important Florida issues: The Future of NASA, and the Future of Cuba. Without getting into the blow, by blow, the case I made to Rick, was almost exactly the case presented to voters by Newt. Rick was not programmed to receive.
I support Rick Santorum because he is the most ethical conservative in the race. He is lacking in the vision thing. And I confess that I am conflicted because both my wife and I like what Newt says that much.
I was on elementry school when dogs were sent into space..
and then Yuri Gagarin the Russian and Gary Shepherd the American went ...
It was fasinating and inspiring..
Science and Math were emphsised in school as worthy and necessary subjects..
every little boy wanted to be an astronaut..
John F Kennedy had vision and imagination..
He dreamed of space ships going to the moon andf back..
Willie Mitty cant see past his comb..
The entire world is on the brink of economic collapse and the silly notion of a revamped idea of space exploration is being discussed as a sane and viable project to fund for, well, forever and without budget limits. Moon base, indeed. Time to can NASA as the political arm of the RATs and restrict space research to military purposes - and even that with restraint.
This kind of talk is symptomatic of the delusions too many seem to be under.
I know people who are out of work and are talking about buying new cars or spending credit on restaurants, etc. like this was 1999. Forget about it, Boomers. The Kennedy/Nixon/Moon dreams are gone and we have other (much more important) fish to fry.
In 1968, we actually made everything we needed right down to the rivets and bolts of the moon landers. Today, we make next to nothing and deficit spend our childrens futures on video games and mythical intellectual and service related economies. The seed corn in the barn is gone, folks.
Do we really believe our best hopes are tied to vapid and childish dreaming about the next Christmas’ wishlist? What we really need is a hard evening at the kitchen table with all the bills and we need to stay there until our income fits our outlay.
Period.
I know that grown-up talk but, really, it sounds like it’s needed around here.
Here’s a link to a NASA paper that gives 180 reason we should have a moon base:
http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/163560main_LunarExplorationObjectives.pdf
Also another article link: http://www.businessinsider.com/180-reasons-nasa-thinks-we-should-have-a-moon-base-2012-1?op=1
BTTT !
No.
I think Romney kind of stepped in it with those comments in Fla.
I thought Newt’s moon idea was a stupid idea. How much is this going to cost us? How much are we going to have to borrow to go to the moon? Only shows Republicans can’t help stop spending any more than Democrats.