He wouldn't say that if he knew abortions were 100% legal on the lunar surface.

To be fair, a moon base is kinda cool.

When is newt gonna get his 90th?

Of course Newt wants to leave the planet. The earth is sick and running a fever.

On just this one issue...
There are a WHOLE bunch of issues where Santorum is cuckoo-for-Cocoa Puffs on.

Diogenes: He heard there are Amazon women living there.

I'm sad that they don't offer that on Netflix streaming.

Bush was going to get us to Mars, too!

sigdiamond2000: Hey Rick:

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YOU DON'T MESS AROUND WITH GOD'S AMERICA

Nice.

We have the technology. The time is now. Science can wait no longer. Children are our future. America can, should, must, and will blow up the moon.

God, I absolutely love all this in-fighting among the Repugs. It's a pleasure to watch them self-implode. The powers that be have completely lost control of their wild animal and they are helpless to stop it. It's beautiful. Newt is singlehandedly tearing the party apart. I hate the guy but I love what he's doing to his party. I can't believe they're not charging an admission for this. I'd gladly pay money for this kind of entertainment.

Keep it up, morons. The world is watching.

I wonder what will be the final straw. What will finally destroy this party once and for all?

link links to fark.com

anyone?

nevermind

Well fark. I was hoping Gingrich would run for President of the moon.

vernonFL: [farm6.staticflickr.com image 640x427]

nice...

If the Earth really were flat, and you launched a bunch of rockets off the very edge of one side of it, could you make it flip end over end like a flipped coin? 'cuz that would be freakin' awesome....

/ and, yet, what I said just now is still about five hundred and sixty three thousand, two hundred and ninety nine times smarter than the smartest thing any of the current GOP candidates has said this entire race....

It's perfectly realistic to suppose that the almighty and ever-living God, by whom all things were made, is intensely concerned with your choice to use contraceptives when porking your wife.

Newt just wants the moon base thing so he can fling his American wang around for being the first country to make a base on the moon. I mean does the moon have any resources whatsoever? What good is a moon base other than "Huzzah we are capable of living on the moon but it will take a long damn time to make it capable to hold thousands of people on it."?

Shaggy_C: Bush was going to get us to Mars, too!

Personally, I'm disgusted by the demise of our space ambitions, but I know this is just Newt's way of pandering to Florida's Space-based industries.

So do they.

WizardofToast: Newt just wants the moon base thing so he can fling his American wang around

If Newt can put Florida on the moon, I will consider voting for him.

WizardofToast: What good is a moon base other than "Huzzah we are capable of living on the moon but it will take a long damn time to make it capable to hold thousands of people on it."?

It is mine-able. The point wouldn't be to have people live on it, though, the point would be to make it a more effective launch station for bigger space operations. If you could get an effective colony running and mostly self-sustaining it would be a lot easier to launch longer range missions and larger space vehicles from the moon.

If the US were to build a base on the moon China would just copy it and make a cheaper on in 3-4 years anyways.

What's the problem with a MoonBase exactly?

Also, Rick Santorum has also become a master of understatement, apparently.


In addition, where is the Shadow Proclamation and their giant space rhino army when you need them? Clearly Newt must be stopped!

Does disagreeing with someone making outlandish statements actually make someone reasonable? I mean, isn't there room for Frothmaster Flash to still be unreasonable but happen to be slightly less unreasonable on this topic because he happens to have no interest in science, exploration or pandering to FL's space community?

WizardofToast: I mean does the moon have any resources whatsoever?

It may have a tremendous amount of Helium-3. Not sure what you'd do with it to recover the prohibitive cost of harvesting it and sending it back to Earth.

I honestly don't get all the hate for Newt's space ambitions. Don't get me wrong, I don't think he's being honest and I am strongly against his candidacy, but wouldn't spending a ton of money on research/science/manufacturing with all of these extra benefits to boot plus small steps towards the long term survivability of our species be preferable to like, blowing it all on the F35?

If we have to have expensive toys at least let's have expensive toys on the moon.

I know Newt won't really be good at pushing forward the space program but I do think all the breathless condemnation of spending money on a moon base or a mars base or whatever and calling it rediculous is really lacking in vision.

Splinshints: It is mine-able. The point wouldn't be to have people live on it, though, the point would be to make it a more effective launch station for bigger space operations. If you could get an effective colony running and mostly self-sustaining it would be a lot easier to launch longer range missions and larger space vehicles from the moon.

This. You have a bunch of metals and oxygen in the soil up there, and the moon could prove useful for developing better practices for extraterrestrial living. You could manufacture structural materials, water and fuel on the surface and the lower gravity makes launches much cheaper than from Earth. The point is not necessarily to go up there and mine for materials to be shipped back to earth (although there are some thoughts that rare earth minerals and helium 3 which are more abundant there than on Earth might be useful).

Snarfangel: WizardofToast: Newt just wants the moon base thing so he can fling his American wang around

I think it's because somebody told him this was real:


http://www.ironsky.net/


/'that's not a computer, ziss is!'

gtp123:
lacking in vision.

like a 2 lane highway?

gtp123: I honestly don't get all the hate for Newt's space ambitions.

The competition is trying to paint Newt as a big-government Washington insider at a time where that's especially unpopular, and regardless of the objective facts, the conventional wisdom among the Republican base is that NASA is ridiculously wasteful "when we have plenty of problems here on Earth." It's the perfect storm of gigantic spending projects with no immediate tangible benefits and a giveaway to scientists and other intellectuals, of whom conservatives are typically wary.

Rick should have a platform revolving around....that's right, Blowing up the moon.