Ret. General Robert Spalding: Moon Landing Couldn’t Happen in Today’s Deindustrialized America

Breitbart ^ | July 20,2019 | ROBERT KRAYCHIK

[IrishBrigade]

‘Didn’t he shoot an elephant in his PJ’s?’

you bet your life...

[bassmaner]

How he got in his PJs, I’ll never know ...

[AnotherUnixGeek]

We also learned by 1970 that — in retrospect — a manned lunar mission was an enormous waste of money and was a luxury that no normal civilization would ever embark on.

This is exactly what every nation that was not capable of going to the moon said in 1969 - if you can't do what others can, tell yourself it's not worth doing. We can all recite it when China sends astronauts to the moon to set up a permanent lunar base in a few years.

[IrishBrigade]

‘They are high-diving each other in their walled/gated mansions by the pool’

well, if they’re high diving, the pool is the place to be...

[AnotherUnixGeek]

It’s not like India or Zimbabwe is ramping up for a manned mission to Mars these days.

India nixed it's launch of an unmanned moon mission last week due to a technical glitch. China has already done an unmanned moon mission. China has put astronauts into earth orbit since the early 2000s. India is planning manned space flight by 2022. They both have ambitions in space, and money to do it.

[Despot of the Delta]

The scale of Los Alomos, Hanford and Oak Ridge projects at the same time and completed in that time frame, is really good reading.

[rottndog]

We also learned by 1970 that — in retrospect — a manned lunar mission was an enormous waste of money and was a luxury that no normal civilization would ever embark on.

This is exactly what every nation that was not capable of going to the moon said in 1969 - if you can't do what others can, tell yourself it's not worth doing. We can all recite it when China sends astronauts to the moon to set up a permanent lunar base in a few years.

Considering the state of modern robotics and AI...manned space flight is not needed for anything other than studying the biological effects of long term weightlessness and radiation on humans. How much of the cost of humans in space is just for life support? How much more exploration and technological advancement could we achieve without that cost?

[Alberta's Child]

Can you think of any other exploration venture in the history of mankind that was ended as quickly as the Apollo program?

There was a reason for it. It was an enormously expensive undertaking that could not result in any long-term human settlement except in completely artificial environments.

[wildcard_redneck]

It is taking at least 8 years to design and build the prototype replacement of the SR-71 an airplane that was designed, built, tested and activated in about 5 years using sliderules, paper and pencil.”

Well there is a lot of truth to what you say, supersonic flight is a tricky, tricky thing to master and the margins for error are slim.

[shanover]

All America can do today is reminisce and superimpose the Apollo rocket onto the Washington Monument.

[Brian Griffin]

My trade proposal proposed that:
1. building components subject to building codes be US made
2. the motor vehicle trade be financially balanced

[Hugh the Scot]

“except in completely artificial environments”..

Like where we all live now.

[Brian Griffin]

It sounds like AOC’s Green Deal remarketed to me.

[dp0622]

LOL

I’m 51 and I have been a fan for AT LEAST as early as my early 30s and maybe more.

20s, I think.

But I am trying to remember how I started watching them.

Dad didn’t watch their movies and no one else did either in my family.

Abbott and Costello and The Honeymooners I saw because pop was watching them. I don’t recall with the Marx Brothers.

Anyway, i have, I’m pretty sure, EVERY ONE of their movies on DVD.

“Remember, you’re fighting for this woman’s honor, which is probably more than she ever did”

lol

[right way right]

I don’t even think they could pick what kind of people to send.

Too many people can’t pick a restroom.

We have become babbleland.

Not unless Trump goes himself.

“They” would gladly help him go.

I guess I am referring to congress.

[Sequoyah101]

No doubt about it being tricky but so were all the things the SR-71 did when it did them.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Without faulty auto-correct, our posts wouldn’t be half as good...

[semimojo]

When you look at America today, we have no telecommunication equipment manufacturers left that are American companies.

Cisco sells over $50B of telecom equipment annually and is the second largest producer in the world.

This guy is an idiot and thank God he’s retired.

[Hot Tabasco]

Ret. General Robert Spalding

Where do these guys come from and who finds them???????

[Midnitethecat]

The African explorer?