Posted on 10/08/2011 6:15:07 PM PDT by decimon
You lie.
This is pretty funny!
The PLA will be the ones exploiting the find. Maybe they will sell us some.
But you could almost kick them into orbit.
They announced a few years ago that the nearly identical make up of the lunar surface proves that the Moon was previously a part of the Earth. So what does this do to that theory?
Could you imagine the nightmare of who would tax the moon? The owner of Moon Mining Intergalactic, who was born in Russia, raised in Britain, lives in the Caribbeans, America runs the transport, and China processes the metal.
If you’re talking about Lewis & Clark, they were sent to explore land just purchased by the United States. And the expedition was dirt cheap compared to space exploration. And the govt. actually happened to have the money at the time. Nice try.
Please show me where in the Constitution it allows the govt. to spend to buy/steal land from France, Spain, Russia and Mexico for new states?
Please show me where in the Constitution it allows the govt. to spend to buy/steal land from France, Spain, Russia and Mexico for new states?
Please show me where in the Constitution it allows the govt. to spend to buy/steal land from France, Spain, Russia and Mexico for new states?
Please show me where in the Constitution it allows the govt. to spend to buy/steal land from France, Spain, Russia and Mexico for new states?
Spin is not what conservatives are about. You’ve been beaten in the argument. Man up.
The Constitution provides for admission of new states. The land from France & Russia was bought. That from Spain & Mexico was...liberated. But don’t worry. Mexico is getting it all back through illegal immigration, while you want to spend billions we don’t have on the moon. Great sense of priorities. Or maybe you anticipate sending our millions of illegals to the moon? I could go for that, if it weren’t so expensive. After all, the Brits sent their criminals to Australia and Georgia.
Please show me where in the Constitution it allows the govt. to spend to buy/steal land from France, Spain, Russia, Republic of Hawaii and Mexico for new states?
“Titanium is not that hard to find on earth. It’s the most common white pigment in paints and other white colored things.”
You’re suggesting we mine paints for titanium?
He he...
Once upon a time, in a kingdom by the sea, there lived a little princess named Lenore. She was ten years old, going on eleven. One day Lenore fell ill of a surfeit of raspberry tarts and took to her bed. The Royal Physician came to see her and took her temperature and felt her pulse and made her stick out her tongue. The Royal Physician was worried. He sent for the king, Lenore's father, and the king came to see her.
"I will get you anything your heart desires," the king said. "Is there anything your heart desires?"
"Yes," said the princess. "I want the moon, if I can have the moon, I will be well again."
That’s another advantage. :’) The titanium could be formed into a nice coast-in reentry vehicle shape (and larger than anything ever launched on Earth), and mine tailings used to coat the outside as ablative shielding. Launch (by magnetic chucker, probably, powered by photovoltaics) into a Earth-terminated trajectory, timed to land somewhere vacant, and the ground crew would tow it (it would land in the ocean) to a port facility at or near the reprocessing plant. Buoyancy would be achieved by leaving a hollow spot inside, or maybe (better yet) turning the metal into metallic foam.
Wow, it is a good thing we’re going there first to work out the technology for inter-planetary travel. Oh, wait ...
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