Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman took some time Saturday to reiterate past statements that he would rather spend money on new initiatives to develop cures for major diseases than on a new space initiative, the AP reported:
“That’s where I’m going to spend my money—here on Earth, rather than spend a trillion to put a colony on the moon and send somebody to Mars,” Lieberman said.
Here’s a challenge to Lieberman and any other candidate or pundit who uses the magic “trillion-dollar” figure: back it up with facts. Now that NASA’s budget figures show a much more modest funding profile, it’s up to those who still claim that the effort will cost a trillion dollars to prove it. They may well be right—NASA is not known for doing major human spaceflight programs under budget—but simply repeating a figure that is as fantastical as it sounds does nothing for their credibility.
When feebs spew that crap about spending money “on Earth” instead of spending money “in Space”, the elementary falacy of their basic logic needs to be pointed out: All money is spent on Earth, the hardware is all built on Earth, by Earthman labor working for Terrestrial corporations. No stinking Martians are going to steal our jobs! Then they (the crap spewing feebs) need to be pointed at and laughed at until they kill themselves. The same arguments were made from the beginging, if they’d had their way, there’d be no communication sattelites, probably no cell phones or personal computers for that matter.
I used to have some respect for Lieberman. No longer, though.