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#1 2016-05-04 10:55:59

Tom Kalbfus
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What does Donald Trump mean for our Space Program?

What do you think is going to happen in a Trump Administration regarding space?
I have a thought, what if you married Lockheed's compact 100 MW fusion reactor to an orbiting space laser, and the North Koreans then did something foolish, such as firing at one of our naval ships? The US and South Korea fire back, not only that, they bomb North Korean ports from which those ships came and they sink as many ships as they can so the North Koreas don't to it again. In response the North Koreans launch nuclear tipped missiles at Seoul. Tokyo, Honolulu, and Los Angeles, and that's where the fusion powered orbiting space laser blows up each incoming warhead, one by one, then the United States and South Korea mass their troops along North Korea's border and invades!

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#2 2016-05-04 14:43:00

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Re: What does Donald Trump mean for our Space Program?

Hasn't he said something about space not being important right now? I don't think a Trump presidency would be good for NASA, or even just meh...


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#3 2016-05-04 18:07:13

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#4 2016-05-04 20:29:06

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Re: What does Donald Trump mean for our Space Program?

When and if he takes office, commercial space will have nearly all the pieces needed to go back to the moon in earnest. If he directed the full power of his ego towards an all commercial architecture, we could do a lot more the same amount of money.

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#5 2016-05-05 01:50:15

Tom Kalbfus
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Re: What does Donald Trump mean for our Space Program?

Depends on how you phrase the question. If you ask a question like, "are you willing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to send a four man mission to Mars?", you may get a predictable answer from him, by supplying all the givens. Also Trump says he wants to rebuild the defense department, one particular direction it can go in would be missile defense. As we know, Trump is a bit of an America first isolationist, but Isolationism only requires that we don't enter into unnecessary alliances, it doesn't mean we have to be vulnerable to nuclear weapons of we don't have to be. That technology also would have civilian applications for going to Mars.

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