Yes, well, the minute GOP Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich suggested that there could be a manned lunar base which would be American, then this was going to go disputed by the BBC. I laughed at the blatant way in which the BBC sets up Gingrich in this item Of course when John F Kennedy made pretty much the same sort of speech in 1962, that is hailed by the likes of the BBC as “visionary” whereas when Gingrich makes it then it “delusionary”. But no bias, no sirreee!
ROCKET MAN…
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Unlike Obama who emasculated NASA and turned it into a Muslim outreach organisation.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/07/nasas_muslim_outreach_106214.html
Gingrich was trying to push this moon thing back in 1988, and various government types had been thinking about lunar colonies for years and years before that. Nothing new here. The only difference now is that China’s trying it on as well. But I think right now Gingrich is mostly just pandering to all those soon-to-be-unemployed NASA workers in Florida.
Funny the BBC have never mentioned the millions wasted on green enegy companies by Obama.
A ‘rip-snorter’ here from Christopher Booker on Obama’s ‘State of the Union’:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/9045657/How-I-woke-up-to-the-untruths-of-Barack-Obama.html
I’m sure Mark Mardell made sure these facts didn’t escape the public´s attention as well.
“Assuming the Chinese are serious, which recent history suggests they are, then I believe the impact could be game-changing,” said Professor Ken Pounds , a leading figure in UK space research at Leicester University.
“Modern communications will allow the experience of operating on the lunar surface to be delivered into the classroom and living room, with enormous socio-political impact around the world.”
Pounds added that the scientific – and commercial – potential of a serious programme of lunar research was likely to be substantial, and go far beyond what was achieved with Apollo.
Another consequence of a Chinese moonshot might be to reinvigorate Nasa’s vision of human space exploration.
“It is very unlikely the US would not respond,” said Pounds. “That could breathe new life into their space exploration programme, which is currently going nowhere.”
I would rather all those rocket scientists now working in finance were actually building rockets.
The space programme of the 60s and 70s were a very exciting time to live. It was not only great to watch, but it also brought many benifits to us all.
“It has been conservatively estimated by U.S. space experts that for every dollar the U.S. spends on Research and Development in the US Space Program, it receives $7 back in the form of corporate and personal income taxes from increased jobs and economic growth.
Besides the obvious jobs created in the aerospace industry, thousands more jobs are created by many other companies applying NASA technology in non-space related areas that affect us daily.”
http://www.problem-solving-techniques.com/US-Space-Program.html
“…bring it on Newt, I say.
Yes John, the lefties don’t realise that such as putting a man on the moon is/was a tangible target with a definite goal; they do not understand that this is fundamentally different from just spending money in the hope that things are discovered.
Lefties are also congenitally opposed to expanding horizons. Liberalism is ALL about limits and control.