Tea Party in Space

[Doctor Fishcake]

Tea Party in Space, an offshoot of the South Florida Tea Party, is, of all things, pushing to end the government’s supposed monopoly on space exploration.

“Our goal is nothing less than the expansion of American civilization into the solar system,” says the group’s platform. “We must return to traditional American free-market principles to expand permanently into space.”

www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/10/the-final-tea-party-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-315238

[devilschaplain2]

I for one support launching Tea Partiers into outer space. Never to return.

[Amaranth]

Aug 11, 2011 10:51:22 GMT -5 @devilschaplain2 said:

I for one support launching Tea Partiers into outer space. Never to return.

Let's give them Mars. And in fifty years, we'll return and se how long their "free market" principles lasted them. I'm betting ten.

[cestlefun17]

Unless Tea Party in Space hasn’t noticed, the U.S. government is no longer the only game in space town. On Tuesday, NASA announced that is partnering with seven private spaceflight companies to work on new technology for future spaceflights. All of the companies are also producing their own commercial spaceships. And just last week, Boeing revealed plans to finalize its own spacecraft, to be launched by 2015.

So it's almost like starting an organization to fight for gay marriage in Massachusetts.

I guess I can see the argument in saying that, at this point in our economy, the government shouldn't be spending money on space exploration: leave it purely to the private sector. But this is so specific an issue, I find it hard to believe you can form a whole political organization revolving around it.

And I suppose private corporations would have built the interstate highway system out of the kindness of their hearts: they would never dream of billing people for using them, even in excess of their cost and maintenance to make a profit for private investors.

[Smurfette Principle]

Aug 11, 2011 10:53:17 GMT -5 Amaranth said:

Aug 11, 2011 10:51:22 GMT -5 @devilschaplain2 said:

I for one support launching Tea Partiers into outer space. Never to return.

Let's give them Mars. And in fifty years, we'll return and se how long their "free market" principles lasted them. I'm betting ten.

Days or minutes?

[Thejebusfire]

I don't think these people understand what space is.

[Amaranth]

Aug 11, 2011 11:12:09 GMT -5 Smurfette Principle said:

Aug 11, 2011 10:53:17 GMT -5 Amaranth said:

Let's give them Mars. And in fifty years, we'll return and se how long their "free market" principles lasted them. I'm betting ten.

Days or minutes?

XD. The former. I'm assuming it'll take them at least a coupel days to ROYALLY screw things up.

[Meshakhad]

No. I want Mars for an ACTUAL space colony.

Let's give them Venus.

[Amaranth]

Aug 11, 2011 12:08:11 GMT -5 Meshakhad said:

No. I want Mars for an ACTUAL space colony.

Let's give them Venus.

Mars will be usable when theyre done wit...Oh crap, they'd probably blow it up.

[Doctor Fishcake]

Look, they're probably going to fuck up and blow up on the launchpad anyway, just let them think they're going to Mars.

[clockworkgirl21]

“Our goal is nothing less than the expansion of American civilization into the solar system,” says the group’s platform. “We must return to traditional American free-market principles to expand permanently into space.”

*blink blink* And I thought my little cousin asking if girls are born with boobs was the dumbest thing I'd hear today.

[Meshakhad]

I still want to see them trying to survive on Venus.

[Old Viking]

Murka: Spaced Out for Sure!

[Iczer-Four]

why not just send them to mercury.. or the sun.. preferably the sun....

[Mlle Antéchrist]

Aug 11, 2011 13:49:35 GMT -5 Meshakhad said:

I still want to see them trying to survive on Venus.

They'll probably deny that the greenhouse effect exist there too.