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14 Things People Probably Said About Newt Gingrich's Plan to Colonize the Moon

Drew Weisholtz — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:35:19 +0000

Newt Gingrich says he wants to put a base on the moon by 2020, adding he hopes enough people will move there so they can petition to make it a state. If it is part of the US of A, does that mean we’d have to travel 65 miles per hour to get there if we went on a road trip? Because that would take roughly 2,000 years and, quite frankly, who has that kind of time?

Newt Gingrich Wants to Make the Moon the 51st State

Kathy Landin — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:24:09 +0000

Newt Gingrich definitely knows how to play to his audience. In a campaign speech near Cape Canaveral, FL, on Wednesday, Gingrich promised that, as president, he would push to colonize the moon. Of course, in Florida, the space program is an important issue. Their “space coast” has been struggling since the final shuttle launched in [...]

Man Calls the Police After Mistaking the Moon for UFO [AUDIO]

Jeremy Taylor — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:01:29 +0000

A man called England’s 999 emergency service number to report an unidentified light floating in the sky. Then, two minutes later, he had the courtesy to call back and admit what he thought could’ve been space aliens was actually just the moon. Too bad the moon didn’t proceed to hit him in the eye like a big pizza pie. Listen [...]