Mars biatch! We're goin to mars!

So, a Republican Presidential candidate is proposing something like a trillion dollars of new spending.

Interesting.

Why waste energy during your space travels entering and exiting the gravitational field of the moon when it is no more difficult from a technical perspective to simply build a permanent space station. Yet more evidence that Gingrich's mind is stuck in 1950's cartoon land.

Lionel Mandrake: If elected, Gingrich promised, "by the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American."

Why?

So you have a place to go after Newt destroys America.

Sounds like another small government idea to me!

Totally consistent with his platform up to this point.

Yeah, Newt is a romantic, alright.

"suck my cock or lose your job, biatch!"

RexTalionis: It's easy to promise a permanent moonbase. It's hard to solve the real problems, like how to deal with lunar regolith, which is terribly abrasive stuff, from gumming up and wearing down any machinery with moving parts on it.

That's personally why I think NASA is such a great idea. Put a bunch of really, really smart people in a room and give them really, really difficult goals to accomplish and they will accomplish astounding feats in the process. And people think that Steve Jobs is an innovator of our time. What about the, often times nameless, innovators that led to these:

Nasa Invention Spinoffs (new window)

Having been to Kennedy Space Center, there is something truly awesome and simultaneously depressing about seeing the Vehicle Assembly Building, designed to construct 6 Saturn V's at a time, being nothing more than an overgrown garage.

That said, manned rocketry is waste of time, effort, and money. Nasa's other missions are far more scientific and important.

Let's spend a trillion dollars to go to the moon! The reason....because we can!

Lionel Mandrake: If elected, Gingrich promised, "by the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American."

Why?

Because the mothership promised to come back for him some day, but only if they could pick him up from the moon.

While I think that going to mars is probably a good idea because of reasons outlined by Neil Degrasse Tyson, I find it hard to believe that many Americans actually care enough about it to decide to vote for Gingrich. The man is tone deaf.

Hey Gingrich!

Sybarite: Lionel Mandrake: If elected, Gingrich promised, "by the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American."

Why?


Googlephonic stereo with a moonrock needle.

Yeah, I suppose if you're gonna go the budget route.

moops: Let's spend a trillion dollars to go to the moon! The reason....because we can!

Yes, but when we get there, we can have all the pulverized glass and igneous rock our hearts desire!

Answer me this: when was the last time you saw Newt Gingrich and Dr. Evil's Big Boy shuttle in the same place at the same time? Hmmm? Exactly.

vernonFL: This is like a Gil Scott Heron poem.

Haha! Nice.

It's a pity none of the Republican farktards on that stage knew the difference between grand and grandiose:

grand [grand], grand·er, grand·est, noun, plural grands for 13, grand for 14.
adjective
1. impressive in size, appearance, or general effect: grand mountain scenery.
2. stately, majestic, or dignified: In front of an audience her manner is grand and regal.
3. highly ambitious or idealistic: grand ideas for bettering the political situation.
4. magnificent or splendid: a grand palace.
5. noble or revered: a grand old man.

gran·di·ose [gran-dee-ohs]
adjective
1. affectedly grand or important; pompous: grandiose words.
2. more complicated or elaborate than necessary; overblown: a grandiose scheme.
3. grand in an imposing or impressive way.
4. Psychiatry . having an exaggerated belief in one's importance, sometimes reaching delusional proportions, and occurring as a common symptom of mental illnesses, as manic disorder.

Where's he going to get the money for that?

/I know, I know, somehow it will be tax cuts

Well, since there's not a chance in hell Gingrich will get elected in 2012, the end of his second term will not happen for at least a decade and a half.

So who knows?

Diogenes: Fine. Vote for Diogenes and I promise I to replace half of our country's energy with cold fusion by the end of my first term.

Wow! That was surprisingly easy.

It sounds like Phineas and Ferb should be running for President.

Gingrich/Spongmonkeys 2012

And here's the head of security at Moonraker, I mean Moon Base

Looks like he's already started.