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1 posted on 06/20/2010 2:33:32 PM PDT by Scanian
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We only landed a handful of men on the Moon. If the problem is to move everybody to the moon, it gets much more difficult.

The formulation, that we landed 14 men on the Moon, do we ca afford to do something else for everybody is a fundamental misunderstanding of the scale involved.


2 posted on 06/20/2010 2:53:59 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Gov. Chris Christie (R) won the NJ-6 held by Rep. Frank Pallone (D) by a 15.5% margin!)
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3 posted on 06/20/2010 3:00:43 PM PDT by Bon mots
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The big difference between the Apollo man to the moon project and Obama's green jobs is that the Apollo project was run by top notch engineers not politicians and bureaucrats. JFK did not commit us to land a man on the moon in a decade without first consulting with top experts like von Braun to determine if it was feasible to accomplish this in the time specified and with the technology available. Had for example JFK committed the US to land on Mars in a decade despite the warnings of experts that it could not be feasibly done the program would have been a miserable failure

Obama does not consult with experts and relies on sloganeering rather than science or trusts junk science like global warming. In many ways he is like Mao and Stalin who committed their countries to massive great leap forward projects without any regard for the cost or consequences. They committed massive amounts of resources into projects that could never really work. Remember Mao vowing to make China self sufficient in iron production by having every collective construct crude iron smelters. This wasted vast amounts of coal and charcoal to produce iron of such poor quality it was almost worthless.

4 posted on 06/20/2010 3:03:23 PM PDT by The Great RJ (The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)
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Obama is, without a doubt, the single dumbest human being I have ever encountered. In fact, he so dumb, he makes other dumb folks look downright smart in comparison.

He's sooooo dumb, people have trouble accepting it...they think,

"no...he can't be that dumb. The fact that his ideas are incomprehensible must be because he is just so brilliant that no one can understand him...yeah, that's the ticket."

He isn't just Chauncey Gardiner, he's a Chauncey Gardiner who has supreme confidence in himself.

He (and we) will find out what an idiot he is...it's just a matter of time now!

5 posted on 06/20/2010 3:13:10 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself...)
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IIRC, it would take 180,000 windmills to generate 20% of the energy America currently uses. It would take an area the size of West Virginia to accommodate that many windmills. Worth it? I think not.


7 posted on 06/20/2010 3:56:23 PM PDT by camerongood210
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Obama doesn’t tilt at windmills, he just yells “FORE”
and takes a mulligan.


10 posted on 06/20/2010 4:37:16 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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