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Space Entrepreneur Opines Donald Trump Could Do an Inspirational Space Program (examiner.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the you're-fired-off-into-space dept.

MarkWhittington writes: Robert Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace opened his new Twitter account with the suggestion that Donald Trump, the mercurial businessman who is running for president, might just give the United States an inspirational space program. Then, thinking better of the idea, Bigelow deleted the tweet and replaced it with an image of the Olympus inflatable space module, which his company envisions as being the basis of a commercial space station.

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  1. Re:He's right by aliquis · · Score: 1, Informative

    I think most of the planet would support sending Trump into space.

    Feel free to send him to Sweden as a ruling dictator for some time.

    Just what we need.

  2. Re:I don't see why... by Rei · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was a stupid tweet. Trump is on the record making it clear where his priorities are.

    The local boy laughed, told the presidential candidate "yeah," and said: "I want to know your opinions on NASA."

    Trump wanted to make sure he correctly heard the question, turning to those around him to clarify if the boy was asking about the national space program or the North American Free Trade Agreement. A woman near the boy shouted: "Space!"

    "You know, in the old days, it was great," Trump told the boy, along with an audience of more than 600. "Right now, we have bigger problems — you understand that? We've got to fix our potholes. You know, we don't exactly have a lot of money."

    One can agree with his sentiment or not (which he's made before), but he's certainly not going to be doing anything "inspirational" with NASA.

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  3. Re:He's right by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just curious, are you the only person in Sweden who supports Trump? Or are there others?

    There is a very active neo-Nazi movement in Sweden. They're guys who talk a lot about "white genocide" and their "Viking heritage". There's a fairly well-known podcast they run, called "Red Ice Radio" that deals entirely with these issues. Note: they started out as an "alternative" podcast about paranormal stuff and conspiracies and UFOs and stuff, and just morphed over time into full-blown virulent Nazi.

    The Swedish neo-Nazi movement is mostly made up of people who are pissed about all the dark-complexioned people invading their lovely field of vision and luring away their women. You've never seen a more pathetic bunch.

    Oh, and they're also on about feminism and "PC culture" (which basically means they're pissed about not being able to get dates).

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    You are welcome on my lawn.