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[caliban]

Gingrich calls for moon base, space contests
http://www.reuters.c...E80P05K20120126

Does Newt Gingrich want to make Neuromancer come true?
by Annalee Newitz
http://io9.com/5866014/does-newt-gingrich-want-to-make-neuromancer-come-true

The Futurist Interviews Newt Gingrich, former U.S. House Speaker
interview by Patrick Tucker
http://www.wfs.org/node/718

Gingrich, Toffler and Conservatism
New York Discussion Group
Lawrence Auster, April 6, 1995
http://www.amnation....ves/021106.html

Edited by caliban, 31 January 2012 - 01:10 AM.
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[Mind]

Gingrich is probably the most forward thinking/futurist of the candidates, as far as I have seen. However, I am naturally drawn to Ron Paul's libertarian ideology.

[Link]

This is a good discussion with Neil DeGrasse Tyson about why Newt's moon base won't work.

http://video.msnbc.m...152472#46152472

[howardarizona]

I think the main reason that Newt Gingrich would want to build colonies on the moon is for the super rich elites, the 1% if you will, to live, after Earth is hardly habitable from the ravages of global warming, environmental degradation, war, crime and other symptoms of extreme resource and income inequality. How many of us on this forum would be able to afford what it must cost to live on a colony on the moon, except perhaps as a servant to one of the elite?

[moleface]

If by "transhumanist" you mean that the guy's barely a human being, I totally agree.

On edit - I just woke up and I didn't realize I was bumping a year-old topic to post my lame joke. Oh well.

Edited by moleface, 19 February 2013 - 03:38 PM.

[Amichai Řezník]

It's a shame he's not president.