This one is not a lie, but...
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[Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a pa](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1137051097955102720) Just in case the tweet gets edited, here is the text:
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For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!
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[Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a pa](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1137051097955102720) Just in case the tweet gets edited, here is the text:
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For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!
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He probably means that the plan is before heading to Mars, they will build a moon station, where the Mars mission will be prepared. It's kind of a misunderestimation.
He can barely construct a proper sentence.
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He can barely construct a proper sentence.
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[Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a pa](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1137051097955102720) Just in case the tweet gets edited, here is the text:
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For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!
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:thumbsup: It will be paid by Martians.
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:thumbsup: It will be paid by Martians.
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He probably means that the plan is before heading to Mars, they will build a moon station, where the Mars mission will be prepared. It's kind of a misunderestimation.
Urban Cricket wrote:
He probably means that the plan is before heading to Mars, they will build a moon station, where the Mars mission will be prepared.
Far as I can remember I have not seen any government or private ventures which have undergone significant planning which included any moon base. There are visionary plans that describe how people might start populating space by moving into orbit then to the moon and then to mars and venus for that matter. But those are not proposals for actual first manned missions to mars nor really plans at all.
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[Donald J. Trump on Twitter: "For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a pa](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1137051097955102720) Just in case the tweet gets edited, here is the text:
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For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of which the Moon is a part), Defense and Science!
I think I know what he meant, but this still shows horrible communication skills. :sigh: The man can't help but adlib with some pearl of wisdom to make himself look smart...this one backfired! I'd like him a lot more if he stopped tweeting stupid sh!t. :|
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Urban Cricket wrote:
He probably means that the plan is before heading to Mars, they will build a moon station, where the Mars mission will be prepared.
Far as I can remember I have not seen any government or private ventures which have undergone significant planning which included any moon base. There are visionary plans that describe how people might start populating space by moving into orbit then to the moon and then to mars and venus for that matter. But those are not proposals for actual first manned missions to mars nor really plans at all.
That's how people get financing, by presenting visionary plans to the powers that be :) Here is the project in question: [Moon to Mars | NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars) It doesn't make him less of a moron, just giving some context to what he said, so people don't think he is completely crazy.
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He probably means that the plan is before heading to Mars, they will build a moon station, where the Mars mission will be prepared. It's kind of a misunderestimation.
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That's how people get financing, by presenting visionary plans to the powers that be :) Here is the project in question: [Moon to Mars | NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/topics/moon-to-mars) It doesn't make him less of a moron, just giving some context to what he said, so people don't think he is completely crazy.
That site is short on the actual plan, but the following seems to suggest to me that the goal is, as I mentioned before, not mars but rather space. So it isn't just going to the moon to get to mars but rather that if the moon was an ongoing enterprise then mars would be easier. Moon to Mars Overview | NASA[^]