{"id":2694,"date":"2006-03-14T19:20:40","date_gmt":"2006-03-15T02:20:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-14T19:20:40","modified_gmt":"2006-03-15T02:20:40","slug":"moon-age-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/14\/moon-age-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon-Age Nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.tcsdaily.com\/article.aspx?id=031406E>More visionary brilliance from the neolibertarians at TechCentralStation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>For the 2006 midterm elections, Republicans should propose an idea so big that it stretches to the stars. Republicans should commit the government to building a space elevator by 2020. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Space elevators could make going into orbit as cheap as flying across the Pacific. They could make space vacations financially feasible for many Americans.<\/ul>\n<p>Bitchin&#8217;! Dude, I cannot wait to take a spacecation \u2013 probably in my new capacity as a slave, mining helium-3 on the moon to pay off my share of the quadrillion-dollar national debt the project will incur, but still. Space! <\/p>\n<p>But wait, it gets better:<\/p>\n<ul>Space elevators would also give the U.S. the high-ground in any future military conflict. With the elevators we could easily launch or destroy spy satellites. They would also help the U.S. set up a &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; missile defense system. Finally, space elevators would allow the military to deploy inexpensive non-explosive kinetic weapons that could be dropped from orbit on our enemies.<\/ul>\n<p>Now I know what you&#8217;re thinking: <i>Matt, this is the raddest idea I have ever heard of in my pitiful, Earth-bound life! Thanks for giving me a reason to go on!<\/i> And I couldn&#8217;t agree more: the welfare-warfare state has outgrown this tiny orb. But why wait until 2020? I want this thing up while I&#8217;m still young, dammit! That&#8217;s why I urge you to please <a href=http:\/\/www.visi.com\/juan\/congress\/>write your congressional representatives<\/a> and demand a space elevator (hell, make that <i>two<\/i> space elevators \u2013 think of the lines) by the end of President Bush&#8217;s second term. <\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=http:\/\/hnn.us\/blogs\/entries\/22868.html>Gene Healy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More visionary brilliance from the neolibertarians at TechCentralStation: For the 2006 midterm elections, Republicans should propose an idea so big that it stretches to the stars. Republicans should commit the government to building a space elevator by 2020. \u2026 Space elevators could make going into orbit as cheap as flying across the Pacific. They could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}