Is it worth thinking about?
A Moon Colony? Fodder for late night smirking but does it make sense? If you are wondering about your home being foreclosed in Florida you perhaps cannot grasp how basketball on the moon helps you.
But just like Cali Governor Jerry Brown was derrided as 'Governor Moonbeam' for being a visionary that actually was ahead of his time in environmental green science, is Gingrich tapping into something real outside his spacious ego?
It turns out that a Space program was actually something we developed as national defense inspired in space wars which launched our NASA program. We have been space traveling with satellites and men on the moon and Hubbell telescopes and have a projected 8 billion dollar new "James Webb" telescope in the works. What Gingrich was promoting was commercializing it on a level that would attract private investment and create jobs. Not so spacey after all. It is already projected that within two years there will be passenger rockets to the moon for tourist travel by ordinary rich folk who want to play astronaut. So Newt wasn't being so AstroNutty here. The idea actually could stop a few foreclosures in Florida.
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