Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "NASA Isn't Telling Us Something About The Moon" video.

  1. Well that explanation beats the congresswoman from Texas who said we wouldn't be able to land on the Moon because it is made up primarily of gas. I think she went to the same school as the other congressman who was concerned about Guam tipping over if everyone stood on one side of the island. But here's why we aren't going to the Moon. It costs a sh*tpot ton of money and people don't give a damn if we go or not. I lived through Apollo. We were battling the Ruskies. We were going to Mars. We were the Star Trek generation, live long and prosper and all that stuff. Then we made it to the Moon and people said, hey, all we're getting for our money is a bunch of rocks. Tax the rich, feed the poor, all that stuff. The science crew at NASA were A-Okay with that reasoning since they wanted to send probes out into space. They won the argument. Nixon tossed the explorer types a bone with the Shuttle but that thing never had a real mission, no end goal, and it was dangerous as f*ck. It's amazing more people didn't die in that deathtrap. Even after Challenger NASA knew there were other problems that they just chalked up to the cost of doing business. The crew of Columbia paid the ultimate price for that. Space travel is hard, really hard. Musk was all enthused about Mars until he found out there wasn't going to be enough government cheese to make a buck off of that little cosmic adventure. He'd have to pony up a lot of the cost and well, it's all fun and games until you lose your fortune for, wait for it, a bunch of rocks. What exactly is on Mars that would make it worth the trip? As someone put it, it's like Utah without the state parks or Mormons. And who the hell would want to live there for any length of time. This is coming from someone who was all-in for this stuff as a kid. Now? No bucks, no Buck Rogers as they said in The Right Stuff. The public could give two sh*ts. Therefore the politicians could give less than two sh*ts. Sorry world, if this thing is gonna get done it'll have to get done either through international cooperation, good luck there, or through the altruistic nature of Elon Musk, that makes the first option seem likely. No, we'll stay right here and eventually we'll have so much crap circling the planet we won't be able to leave orbit if we wanted to, not without smashing into some piece of leftover space trash. But hey, somewhere in the Oort Cloud is a big old chunk of rock and ice with our name on it anyway. So we got that going for us. Maybe Elon can work on a plan for that, one that doesn't require Billy Bob or Bruce. Those guys are a bit long in the tooth anyway.
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