Candidate Gingrich Pushes a Moon Base, Other Space Initiatives 602
New submitter thomas.kane writes "Newt Gingrich announced yesterday, while visiting Florida's Space Coast, a visionary plan for the future of space travel. He suggested a combination of the current private incentives and a government funded section, developing a moon base, commercial near earth orbit, and continuous propulsion systems to better reach Mars." "Visionary" seems an awfully positive spin on it; Gingrich is not the first President or presidential candidate to propose revisiting the moon — and the moon seems like small potatoes, by some measures.
New Secret Service Code Name (Score:5, Funny)
Newt Gingrich's new Secret Service code name:
MOONBAT ALPHA
Re:Going to the moon, with what money?? (Score:4, Funny)
Gingrich's real plan (Score:4, Funny)
After building a base on the moon, he will point a giant "laser" at the Earth, and threaten the rest of the world with annihilating a major city every day unless the world pays the US (evil pinky finger) $10.5 trillion. Then he will use that money to pay off the national debt (except that which is owed to Social Security), and thus balance the budget.
Of course, the whole thing will be stopped when a spy with bad teeth shows up.
Re:Nutcase (Score:4, Funny)
I have only one question (Score:3, Funny)
If I sign up, do I get an awesome evil henchman future-suit?
Re:Going to the moon, with what money?? (Score:5, Funny)
You know, it says a lot about this country when someone with a history like Newt's can be a serious candidate for president. Vote Cthulu for 2012! It will be the lesser evil!
Re:Going to the moon, with what money?? (Score:5, Funny)
US to get to the moon using private industry incentives
If the moon were made of solid gold, it still wouldn't be anywhere close to economically feasible for private industry to bother. And, as it is, it's just made of cheese, which is a lot easier to get out of cows.
Re:Going to the moon, with what money?? (Score:5, Funny)
The beauty of the idea is, that you do not need any money, you just use all the US debt certificates and stack them. That should be enough to reach the moon and build there a station out of the remaining notes. And if it isn't sufficient. New debt can easily be produced. For example, wage another war. Let say against Pakistan. Er no they have the bomb. Well let see, how about Norway. They have oil and they do not have any nuclear weapons. True they are allies, but who cares? Who will stop us? The British will not, if BP can get some of the oil.
Re:Going to the moon, with what money?? (Score:5, Funny)
As opposed to the Free Market Space Cadets, who will live in a perfect market economy selling vacuum to each other? How dare "We the people" be concerned about fellow humans! Space rocks! That's what counts!
Re:Going to the moon, with what money?? (Score:2, Funny)
...the choice of candidates will be between a douche or a turd.
Gingrich is the turd from 1997 that didn't fully flush. Long live "Floater" Gingrich!
Re:New Secret Service Code Name (Score:3, Funny)
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