Help wanted: Space flight experience required

If we ever get off this rock and colonize other planets, I promise I will leave you on earth to drown in your own filth as long as you don't follow us liberals into space.

Humanity would truly be a failure if corporations get out into space before well-meaning citizens do.

The thing is, as you've mentioned, you can't even own property in space. So all of the rules and regulations that make a corporation make sense are nonsensical in space. They'd need force, a military, to make their will known.

Plus you're wrong about the U.S. or NASA not having enough money. The money is completely there, it's the private sector that likely doesn't have the money. Corporations all deal in debt, even if they could get a steady line of credit, a single fuck-up would make the whole thing come crashing down. Only governments can deal with that kind of collateral.

Private space travel I don't have a problem with so long as it's properly regulated. But the -privatization- of the whole trade IS a problem. Governments need to have a role in space, otherwise the whole playing field is tapped out.

Yeah, you would slap my ass wouldn't you? Just that kinda guy I guess.

Tell you what, you and your dead end job probably pay for about a dime in the grand scheme of things. I'll be sure to flick one to you on my way out, just to repay for how "hard" you worked for your tax dollars to be "taken away."

If I were to be a part of a colony my only condition is to have people with triple-digit IQ's, I could care less about anything else.

If that's your definition of liberal, then by all means, it'll be a liberal planet (or moon).

You can enjoy your bloated and useless military which well over 50% for a while, but eventually you're going to run out of things to blame liberals for.

Or not, you seem perfectly content to wallow in your own ignorance, which apparently is bliss since you feel the need to type out how much you're laughing in every post.

I think it would be awesome! I wish more people with tons of money would get into this field... like Bill Gates! I can see astronauts playing XBox in space now...

Right, because you know liberals so well.

You barely have two brain cells to rub together but let me try to explain something to you anyway.

In an online discussion, it's pretty stupid to put words in someone's mouth. You have no idea what they think about something and all you do is make them defensive.

If you're having trouble doing that, just change every sentence you have into the form of a question. You don't have to take a partisan dump in every post. It is possible to write something that at least resembles a coherent part of this discussion.

So let's see, you got one sentence out before exploding into stupidity and blind insults again.

Let's get something straight here, unless you make more than $100,000 a year, you spend about a fucking dime on any program that has ever existed that will ever affect me. So you can cram this pathetic anti-tax argument right back in your ass where you pulled it out of.

Furthermore, NASA's budget is less than 1% of the total Federal Budget, it's really NOT that high. Nor would it need to be that high to promote space exploration.

As a member of this economy, you are a useless DRONE. You have no right to tell me that you work hard to provide for me because you contribute jack shit to my existence.

Our government is of the people, for the people, by the people, so long as there is a majority in congress representing us your argument about "you" paying for me is a crock of shit.