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Will Gingrich found the UFP?

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Gingrich opened up the possibility of the moon becoming the 51st state [by 2020], something he believes could happen once a permanent settlement reaches a population of 13,000 Americans.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technol...mises-build-moon-colony-2020-u-211103078.html

Ummm . . . not quite what I had in mind. Nor Neal Amstrong, I think. Claiming a whole planet? Well, at least a moon.

"We came in peace for all mankind" is now, "We came in peace for ourselves."
 
Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
(Anji then faints in front of her computer.)
 
Any extra-terrestrial human colony that would be self-sufficient enough to be considered a state would declare independence.
 
Well, hey. The ISS project had its roots in the US, with The Gipper, didn't it?

Perhaps Newt's concept becomes an international lunar colony, in the future....
 
:lol: I really hope this isn't a serious news article. Because if it is, it only further reduces my already meager respect for Newt Gingrich. :guffaw:
 
At least he seems enthusiastic about space, unlike most presidents.

Though this is not really a gen trek subject.
 
America claims the moon as the 51st state?

Another American acting like everything belongs to America. Bloody hell...
 
Claiming the entire moon, I can't see. But a sizable area surrounding a American lunar colony, sounds like a great idea. Room to grow.
 
A permanent U.S. moonbase by 2020 sadly isn't a realistic goal.
That's only 8 years away. The United States doesn't even have any operational space vehicles at the moment. The previous Space Shuttle was never designed to travel to the Moon. There are no Lunar landing vehicles and no one in NASA is trained for such a task.

At least when Kennedy gave his land a man on the moon by the end of the decade speech NASA was already heading in that direction.

It's a lofty goal, an ambitious goal, but in 8 years?
 
JB2005 said:
Doesn't apply to the moon...and the US isn't a party to the Moon Treaty
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The Outer Space Treaty does include the moon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

One of the relevant sections

The treaty explicitly forbids any government from claiming a celestial resource such as the Moon or a planet, claiming that they are the Common heritage of mankind.[2] Art. II of the Treaty states that "outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means".
 
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