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NASA just doesn't care about the moon people!

I'm sure the head of this group will be chosen to be the new "Space Czar" in Comrade Zero's Administration any day now...

While the statements of this group are weird, the bigger and more important point is the pissing away of tax dollars by the government. Sometimes issues and causes make strange bedfellows, but I'd rather keep money in my pocket than have the government take it from me to screw with ice exploration on the moon.

It doesn't take a werewolf or moon worshiper to see the real issue here: Quit stealing money from taxpayers for lame-ass adventures!

The moon is a rock. It has no ecology.

Space is not where complaints about spending tax dollars should be logged.

Taxes not spent for space do not come back to you; and taxes will never be lowered by reducing space exploration.

Moreover, getting into space is an intellectual and creative endeavor.
Admittedly some tax dollars are wasted on certain space programs but that's largely because we still (after all these years) have a relatively nascent space program and are still (after all this time) in the experimental phase of development.

Compared to what spending tax dollars brings about in order to fund social engineering programs, displacing capitalism and establishing socialism, the space program is a bargain. Were it not for the chronic tax-looting operations we endure for the privilege of enriching our "special" collective groups, conceivably, we could have built the technology to move out into space a long time ago.

One point that is never made by spokesmen for space programs is that the fascination of space may just provide a way to "worm-hole" our way out of other mandatory social programs that we are compelled to pay for here on Terra Firma.

Just as we can build the world's most formidable military, were the citizenry to favor a well-funded space program at the expense of flushing money down social sewers, we might actually see something in space that would be worth the exchange of our tax dollar.

Im sure the Chinese and Russians will be colonizing the Moon long before the Amerikans do. Of course they will build mass drivers on the Moon and bombard the US with large chunks of the Moon. They better not mess around in the Sea of Tranquility, theres are 2 Shadow Vessels buried there.

It sounds like too many people took the brown acid.

Two things:
1) That picture is creepy
2) Moonbats say silly things when they're high

As I sit here typing this comment I have a satellite feed, from a choice of many, monitoring the storms. I am doing this over a wireless connection to a worldwide communications satellite network . All of this was developed using what some see as 'wasted' tax dollars. This argument was made years ago when we decided to go to the moon.

Meanwhile, in Detroit, the government is handing out tax dollars to the unproductive who will return nothing on that 'investment'.

The word LUNATICS comes from the pagan moon goddess LUNA and according to the myth anyone who slept out in the moonlight would go wacko sound a bit like these nuts and the fact that wacko tree sitter dim-bulb JULIA(BUTTERFLY)HILL called the tree she sat in LUNA becuase julia is out of her mind as well

The Swiss and the French should colonize the Moon first since its made out of Chee-eeeeeeeeeeze.

Fiberal, Iopian... ditto

The space program, while pricey and sometimes a bit looney and "pie-in-the-sky" minded (no puns intended)has actually yielded REAL benefits for us back here on good ol' Gaia Earth. Social programs on the other hand....

I remember as a kid hearing Carter's speech about "waging the moral equivalent of a war on poverty". Since then... what, 30 years or more?... we've pissed away about two years worth of GDP in the "War on Poverty" toilet. Guess what? There are still poor people! Talk about a 'quagmire'.... lol

It's the paradox of the ages.... You can't solve poverty by giving people money.

Oh, and I have to point this out:

"What can we as surrealists or lunatics or astrologers or naturalists or anarcho-primitivists or...

Anarcho-primitivists? Have these moonbats never seen Monty Python? it's anarcho-syndicalists, you silly tarts!

The moon.... a captured planetoid in the vacuum of space.... with lifeforms and ecosystems....

I've heard it all...

Its OFFICIAL - the Envioweenies are nuttier than a $5 fruit cake...

While the statements of this group are weird, the bigger and more important point is the pissing away of tax dollars by the government. Sometimes issues and causes make strange bedfellows, but I'd rather keep money in my pocket than have the government take it from me to screw with ice exploration on the moon.

I'm kind of torn on this one. Space capability definitely has defense implications, particularly now that rival nations have it. Perhaps the space program should just be placed under the purview of the DoD, and just scrap NASA altogether.

Also, to someone of my age, the space program has been something of a proxy for the state of our society. Notice that our space program went to hell pretty much at the same time our culture did.

John Derbyshire had an excellent column noting the parallels.

As a major space geek, I've been following LCROSS since it launched (I watched it on a live webcast!)

The LCROSS Facebook page is clogged with crazies: it actually makes for fun reading! http://www.facebook.com/pages/LCROSS-Lunar-Impactor-Mission/154478180006?ref=ts

I don't think the richest value in a viable space program is either the adjunct rewards in earth-based technologies or military dominance, although both of these are valuable and would in of themselves make space exploration worthwhile.
However, exploration and discovery of space has a higher value because of the way it nourishes our impoverished intellect.

Space automatically elevates thought somewhere above "when do I get my next tattoo?".

With all due respect, I believe Carl Sagan failed as a science ambassador to sufficiently stimulate people to get interested in space. Not bc he didn't do a good job of publicizing science, he was great, but he overestimated the attractiveness of space for the masses and underestimated the enormous social resistance to spending money on space.

Carl Sagan was brilliant, but a bit moonbatty and felt that the problem as to why people were not more energized about space was due to too much money being spent on the "military industrial complex" as well greedy capitalist pigs not paying their "fair share" of taxes.
Here he was wrong; the problem in fact, is the average guy (gal, tax-payer, tax-sponger, politician and hoi poloi)-- who think that the issue around space exploration is a zero-sum game played with their money.

It isn't.

The problem of putting space exploration ahead of all the "critical" social programs we've come to know and love, is the average guy's small perception of his own priorities.

Carl Sagans big problem was he belived this darwinists bunk and he said we were all STAR STUFF and so him and a bunch of his fellow moonbats aboard his sea urchin shamed ship the IMAGINATION took a trip into the ROMULAN NUETRAL ZONE and the romulans vaporized them with their plasma weapon

If these environmentalist nutcases would just shut up the world would never know:

A) how insane they are.
and
B) how stupid they are.

>...and that US “imperialists” intend to colonise the moon “without regard for ecosystems or indigenous peoples”.>

Are they talking about the Cat Women?

The best way these eco-freaks can save the world is to keep their pieholes closed and cut off all that HOT AIR their producing

The moon has been selflessly throwing itself in the way of meteors on behalf of Gaia for eons. It's what it does! How dare anyone try to change this inborn, genetically-determined preference!

NASA started going downhill when they became so politically correct that they had to make sure they had the correct number of cross dressign Danes, rather than actually hiring the best regardless of skin color or sexual preference. Gone are the old tough flyboys that just got the job done now I am not sure they have the brains to actually even hit the moon tomorrow. After the first space shuttle explosion, we learned that the chief at NASA was told NOT to launch if the temps were below 40deg but he and his buddies did not want to face the PR of delaying the launch so they did it anyway. Then they persecuted the poor engineer with the guts to tell the truth. I agree with Rob Banks, lets dump NASA altogether!

NASA hasnt been the same since that jerk JAMES HANSEN took over

Perhaps the likes of Richard Branson and Robert Bigelow will be able to succeed where Carl Sagan failed. Branson is building Virgin Galactic, a suborbital airline while Bigelow is building an Orbital Hotel. I hope to see a time when the future we were promised in Stnley Kubrick's 2001 will be reality.

Save America! Nuke the Moon-People! >:D Nuke 'em good!