Newt Gingrich’s Moonbat Lunar Colony Idea Busted in Cyberspace
January 28th, 2012 |
The Big Picture
by Glynn Wilson
Disgraced former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who managed to get enough dingbat evangelical Christian Republicans to vote for him to win the South Carolina Primary, went down to Florida and launched the biggest moonbat idea of the 2012 presidential race so far: A Lunar colony that could petition to be the 51st state in the United States when it reaches 13,000 residents.
Don’t believe it? What planet have you been living on lately? It’s all over every news channel. Here are a couple of sample videos (science analysis below).
Unfortunately, according to scientists who have looked at the possibility of humans living on the moon, there are several fundamental problems – the moon doesn’t have all of the important things that make life on Earth possible!
Water
While there is some water to be found on the moon, from what we know right now it probably wouldn’t be enough for us to survive.
Oxygen
Humans would not be able to live on the moon without wearing oxygen tanks all the time. Do you want to live your entire life in a space suit?
Atmosphere
Earth’s atmosphere gives us livable weather conditions and the right amount of gravity. On the moon, there is no real atmosphere; because of this, temperatures are both much too hot on one side and too cold on the other. The moon also has only about one-sixth as much gravity as Earth, an amount that our bodies are not adjusted to living with.
You can find out all about this on the Web, but here’s one place to start: Why can’t we live on the moon?
Who Is More Nuts? Gingrich or Romney?
Maybe those Christians in South Carolina like the idea, or maybe they just don’t like Massachusetts Mormon Mitt Romney.
But considering the crazy ideas about space held by the Mormons, perhaps Romney should not be putting Gingrich down. The Mormon’s believe in a planet called Kolob, “the heavenly body nearest to the throne or residence of God.”
Now I could go on with this analysis of the silliness of the ideas of Republicans in the U.S., but why bother? At the end of the campaign of 2012, the year the world is supposed to end according to the Mayan calendar, the world is going to realize the Republicans are unelectable.
There are always going to be some uneducated people who believe in zany ideas, like for example the sun revolves around the earth, the earth is flat, even in an end of the earth scenario dreamed up by a primitive people who who were so advanced they committed human sacrifices to an imagined god and dumped the bodies in their only fresh drinking water supply.
I’ve said this before, and I guess I’ll have to write about it again and again as these crazy people come out of the woodwork. The idea of space colonization is as nuts as the notion of life after death. Neither will save us. Our life is here on this planet. We either solve our problems here and work to create a sustainable world for ourselves, or we die. It’s as simple as that.
When there is a winning presidential candidate in America who acknowledges these facts, that might be the day we have a chance to turn things around. Until then, you can get your entertainment on TeeVee or the Web and follow these ridiculous stories until your heart is content. It won’t change a thing in the cosmos, where the laws of physics rule. God can’t change them. Gingrich can’t change them. And neither can Joseph Smith Jr..
Anyone can write fiction and get some people to believe in it. Some humans still carry the gullible gene. Maybe one of these days we will wise up, hopefully before we destroy ourselves and this planet.
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January 28th, 2012 at 10:19 am
Let’s get something straight before this goes any further: Newt Gingrich may be adept at getting votes like a gifted circus barker–but he cannot govern once in the position of leadership. His earlier forage into the world of government ended when he practically shut down the workings of Congress, and he was banished, finally, in disgrace.
His speaking fees, however, went up when he ran for president again. This lead me to believe that Mr. Gingrich is an empty suit whose gift of gab is his meal ticket, and he is milking it for all it is worth.
If the famous phrase “No one ever went broke underestimating the American people” (Barnum?) means anything, these days it importantly echoes Mr. Gingrich’s political point of view.
January 28th, 2012 at 10:20 am
Bush had planned to get us on Mars by 2025 i believe. i’m going to Snope this article ~ i cannot believe that a rational being would proffer such stoopidity ~ Stoopid is as Stoopid does ? the MOON ~ really, well there went his chances (ha) to be omg i’m laffing my ass off ~ president