Are you really stupid enough to believe all of that?

You voted to put Sarah Palin just a heart beat away from controlling nuclear weapons? A woman who thought Africa was a country! A woman who believes in exorcist! A woman who believes that humans walked with dinosaurs! Of course, since you appear to want America to become some libertarian paradise like Somalia, maybe you were voting for what you really wanted!

Lunar commercialization, industrialization, and colonization will be quite sustainable well before the end of this century. There’s just too many ways to make big money on the moon in the long run:

space tourism (the Moons just 4 days away), satellite manufacturing and launching, protecting the Earth from NEOs, lunar funerals and burials, supplying laser energy from the Moon to infrared photovoltaic power facilities located anywhere on Earth 24 hours a day/7 days a week, platinum prospecting on the lunar surface, telescopic prospecting for small 100 tonne asteroids in space, and even lunar real estate for those folks who like living in huge biodomes in a low gravity environment where you could strap on some wings and fly! The Moon will probably be one of the wealthiest regions in the solar system well before the end of this century!

Just because they’ve signed a contract with a stated value doesn’t mean that they’ve actually received that much money. Learn a little about contracting, and stop flaunting your ignorance.

Speaking as someone who had a new kid in the house 5 times, I think you must be neglecting yours based solely on the obviously huge amount of time you spend generating the sheer volume of text you post. And you don’t have enough typos to prove that you’re doing all that typing one-handed.

Of course, the logic you frequently employ could be explained by lack of sleep, so maybe you’re not…

Go spot Mom! She needs a break…

This is lifted from SpaceX’s own press release, dated December 23, 2008, Planet Earth. http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20081223

Now that isn’t the only USG funds SpaceX has gotten. Falcon 1 would never have flown without DOD funding. Nor would it have flown without the us of the USG’s Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Island.

Face the facts gentlemen, SpaceX isn’t doing anything for ISS or LEO unless USG is the bill payer. There is no commercial outside of satellites. ISS is not commercial in any sense. It doesn’t produce a revenue stream, it has no billable services that anyone outside of the government wants. Its a creature of the Congressional funding monster and no company will bet the company on it. SpaceX will approach ISS, crewed transport just as LockMart, ATK or Boeing did. Cash upfront please.

SpaceX has their own registered lobbyists in DC, one is named Bud Cramer, a former congressmen with the firm Wexler and Walker. Musk is a frequent flyer to DC to lobby for all of his enterprises, whether it’s SpaceX or Tesla, whether it’s Nasa or the Department of Energy, Musk is hanging around shaking the federal fruit tree for frequent snacks. Further, a little googling shows SpaceX is a very active contributor to Congressman and women. They are no different than ATK in the way they go about their business of dealing with DC.

So? What’s your point?

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100413/COLUMNISTS0207/4130316/1086/Reed++Debunking+the+latest+health+care+conspiracy+theory

Fox News falsely claimed that the health care bill lets Obama create his own private army.

They got 1.6 billion from Nasa for the ISS resupply using Falcon and Dragon in 2008, before Obama was sworn in…

If so then it is like no government contract that I have ever seen or heard of before. As I recall SpaceX has gotten 3 or 4 hundred million dollars on that contract. NOW thats a lot of money if you know what to do with it and not an unreasonable amount given the task at hand…and cheap to NASA standards.

Robert G. Oler

I fully grasp the notion of a sovereign people. But my notion includes sovereign people who give a damn about the Constitution and the Republic, even if you don’t…

yeah and you and others like you get to define who those people are. Thats another characteristic of extremism. Actually its two of them, trying to imply that others who have differing viewpoints dont care much about The Republic.

Look this is the wrong forum for this and you can take the last pass but I am done with this…

everyone who is a citizen has equal stroke on what The Constitution means. The struggle in The Republic has been to include more and more people in the definition of “us” and it has been against those who would define “us” very narrowly.

Anyway wrong forum for this so I am back to space.

Robert G. Oler