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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. He's right by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  3. Not classy enough. by TsuruchiBrian · · Score: 4, Funny

    We will have a huge solid gold space station with a casino and hot chicks that aren't fat. We will make Chinese workers do the job, but the wages will go to American workers.

  4. Re:I don't see why... by JoeMerchant · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know, we don't exactly have a lot of money.

    Spoken like a true Depression survivor's child... And, if anyone recalls any history at all, how did we manage our way out of the Depression? (Hint: It wasn't by sticking our remaining money in a locked vault.)

    You want the potholes fixed? Great idea, let's do that. Hell, let's give infrastructure a boost back up to 3% of the federal budget, from the 2.5% where it's currently at, but not at the expense of shutting NASA down. Pushing NASA back up from 0.5% to 1% of the budget, and education up from 6% to 8%, and energy and environmental up from 3% to 4%, while reducing military spending from 54% to 50% would seem to be a good way to make this country stronger, long term.