Sorry, but Newt's 'Moon colony' proposal is the best idea that's come out of the clown car.

[Bicoastal]

11. My dad has been an Aerospace engineer for 40 years.

Hughes, then Boeing, then JPL at CalTech. He's still not retired, and he loves outer space more than any person I know.

So during a recent visit, I asked him about Newt's proposal, and he thinks it's the dumbest idea he'd ever heard. "Besides the fact that there's no way that any country could possibly put a colony on the moon in 8 years? The fact is, there's nothing humans could possibly do on the moon that machines couldn't do more accurately, efficiently, and cheaply. Plus, colonization suggests readily available resources, and the moon has absolutely none. It's like wanting to build a human colony at the very bottom of the ocean--even if we COULD figure out how to do it, why the heck would we want to?"

Some places were meant to be explored and then left alone.