[Newsbot]

Title: Experts say Gingrich moon base dreams not lunacy
Category: Science
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2012-02-04 00:42:57

[Scape]

Not at all!

[raydan]

Another bunch looking for research grants.

[Canadian_Mind]

Scape wrote:

Not at all!

YES!!!

[saturn_656]

Leading nations of the world are too busy fighting idiot cavemen in the desert to worry about interplanetary colonization.

[Lemmy]

Ah, Newt, your little scheme is so 1990s.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

A dream of a moon base is not lunacy. Thinking it'll be good to go in 20 years is fucking balmy.

[Proculation]

PublicAnimalNo9 wrote:

A dream of a moon base is not lunacy. Thinking it'll be good to go in 20 years is fucking balmy.

But it WILL be the 51th State of the Union !

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Proculation wrote:

PublicAnimalNo9 wrote:

A dream of a moon base is not lunacy. Thinking it'll be good to go in 20 years is fucking balmy.

But it WILL be the 51th State of the Union !

Puerto Rico has better chance of becoming the 51st state than there is of a moon base in 20 years

[DanSC]

Obviously it could happen. The technology to send people to the moon is over 40 years old, and we've been living in space long-term for decades. Because there is no atmosphere on the moon, having a moon base would just involve landing something like the International Space Station on the moon. Expensive and complex, but not exactly groundbreaking.

I personally don't see any benefit in a moon base. Anything we need to do in space can be done for far less on a space station, and a centerfuge on that space station can take care of any experiments requiring the moon's gravitational acceleration.

[Thanos]

The idea isn't lunacy. It's that it's been forwarded by such a bogus and generally despicable person like Gingrich that makes it ridiculous. Anyone else I'd listen seriously too. Gingrich though, the wannabe king of the Know Nothing Party? No damn way.

[Lemmy]

What I don't get is why Newt, if he was trying to jerk-off Florida voters with the promise of space-program dollars, chose a Moon-base as his project. Why didn't he announce a manned Mars mission? That's at least a dream-large fantasy that could rally some Kennedy-esque support. But the Moon? The Moon's old news. Hell, even a re-vamped, next generation shuttle-type program would be more likely to generate support than for a Moon-base. Republicans are tight-fisted and you might sell them on a dream but you'll never sell them a white elephant. A base on the Moon just sounds useless and silly, a project without a purpose.

[BRAH]

[Brenda]

The idea in itself is not lunacy. The fact he thinks he can do it by 2020, is. Then again, he is a lunatic, so what exactly did we expect?

[Thanos]

He's not a lunatic in the same vein that Perry, Santorum, and even Ron Paul are. Gingrich is more of a corrupt egomaniac than anything else. The effective result of a Gingrich presidency, once it was all over, would be that the US would have had to endure through the most corrupt and scandal-ridden administration since Nixon, or even Warren Harding.