The Newt-onian Mechanics of Building a Permanent Moon Base | The Crux | Discover Magazine<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSpace | Chinese space program | On Wednesday, January 25th, Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich spoke to a crowd of supporters in Florida.\u00a0In a short speech\u00a0guaranteed to create a \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Newt's Florida-pandering suggestion that we would have a permanent Moon base by the end of his second term is a nice goal, but for the wrong reasons and by the wrong means. Like the author (who also wrote here http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2012\/01\/27\/the-gingrich-who-stole-the-news-cycle\/ ) I'd love to see a Moon base. But Newt's suggestion is the product of … Continue reading “The Newt Seeks a Harsh Mistress”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99,82],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","category-space","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25374,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/13\/tish-he-speaks-french.html","url_meta":{"origin":25774,"position":0},"title":"Tish! 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