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Originally Posted by Bucco
Comparing NASA budget to wars does not seem to address the point. While it would be great to have the money to afford a program as noted, it is a larger undertaking (moon colony) than anything ever attempted and while I have no idea of how to even estimate the costs it seems to me that the cost would far exceed anything from the past !
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I'm sorry, Bucco. If you thought I was endorsing Gingrich's looney-tunes idea of establishing a moon colony, I was not. What he was trying to do was appear "Kennedy-like", that was pretty apparent.
What I meant was that way too many of us simply go along with what our elected representatives say or do, based only on soundbites of information. Seldom do people think about some of the stuff that comes out of Washington by saying, "...wait a minute, does that make any sense?" In this case, that probably goes for both the decisions made to pretty much shut down NASA as well as fighting wars.