Looney

or Qwirky Genius?

In that kind of absent minded professorial way maybe? The idea of privatizing moon colonization is not as out there as you may think.
The privatization of space travel has already become a reality and was reported by the Huffington Post last summer.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/20/nasa-privatize-space-future-changes_n_905186.html
See also, the NYTimes article:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/science/space/29nasa.html

While it may be a bold idea, its not too far a stretch once we are privatizing space buses to the moon to have people hanging around and colonizing it for longer than a starbucks break. Space watchers in the know actually do know that we currently have technology to not only land people there but mine it for water and other elements which could produce fuel for further space travel-to mars perhaps. While this might sound infinity and beyondish, (it does a bit to me) what would you have thought of a man landing on the moon and prancing around in a marshmallow space suit if you were living in 1950? Carazy right? Stuff of comic book fantasy-right?
Moon colonization is under study by other foreign governments already in their defense programs.
All he was saying was Give Peace a Chance------ let's not get Left Behind.