{"id":139111,"date":"2019-06-08T15:07:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T21:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=139111"},"modified":"2019-06-08T15:07:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T21:07:46","slug":"bang-zoom-straight-to-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/06\/08\/bang-zoom-straight-to-the-moon.html","title":{"rendered":"Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh, look. President Random-Neuron-Firing is making arbitrary and inconsistent policy statements on Twitter. Again. I offer a shiny nickel to the first person who can identify the Fox News, etc., item that triggered him. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/nasa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#nasa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/moon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#moon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/trumptantrum?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#trumptantrum<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AwbZH9gt9m\">https:\/\/t.co\/AwbZH9gt9m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ***Dave Hill (@Three_Star_Dave) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Three_Star_Dave\/status\/1137106798928900096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh, look. President Random-Neuron-Firing is making arbitrary and inconsistent policy statements on Twitter. Again. I offer a shiny nickel to the first person who can identify the Fox News, etc., item that triggered him. #nasa #moon #trumptantrum https:\/\/t.co\/AwbZH9gt9m<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After months of proudly proclaiming that NASA was going to put us back on the Moon, for long-term occupation and exploration (said statements then faithfully echoed by NASA itself, as well as by VP Pence and other administration members), all of a sudden, Trump blurted this out yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon &#8211; We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1137051097955102720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Why the sudden change of heart? As far as anyone can tell, because an hour earlier, His Closest Advisors (Fox) said that the Moon was for chumps (and a bright, shiny nickel has been delivered to Stan for spotting this).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump&#39;s weird moon\/Mars tweet appears to be inspired by this Fox Business segment, which aired about hour ahead of his tweet. (ht <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattGertz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MattGertz<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I understand [the moon] would be a launching point for other initiatives going further out, but I thought we would advance beyond that.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uIaTur2KRG\">pic.twitter.com\/uIaTur2KRG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1137057701433872385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We literally have a president whose mood and policies on any given day are influenced by Fox News and Fox Business News. No matter what he&#8217;s said, even assuming he remembers it, a critique on Fox is enough to get him to pivot in another direction.<\/p>\n<p>That would be annoying enough if we were just employees of his company (yes, I&#8217;ve worked for bosses like that). But as President of the United States? Yeesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald is a bold, inspiration leader &#8230; in whatever direction Fox is talking about today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78,82,1071],"tags":[1867,470,723,1077],"class_list":["post-139111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tweets","category-space","category-trump","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-nt","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/moon3.jpg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128354,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/19\/we-should-have-had-a-historian-says-nasa.html","url_meta":{"origin":139111,"position":0},"title":"&quot;We should have had a historian,&quot; says NASA","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Oct-15 8:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes. 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Originally shared by +Les Jenkins: Cool. Over 8,400 NASA Apollo moon mission photos just landed online, in high-resolution Space fans, rejoice: today, just about every image captured by Apollo astronauts on lunar missions is now\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131457,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/08\/so-what-was-the-second-thing-neil-armstrong-said.html","url_meta":{"origin":139111,"position":3},"title":"So what was the SECOND thing Neil Armstrong said?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Sep-16 9:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"After his famous \"That's one small step for man ... one giant leap for mankind\"[1], what did he say next?Well, bear in mind that people didn't really know what the surface of the moon would be like. 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