I think the Great Carrot was trying to communicate that going back to the moon was part of the plan to go to Mars, i.e a staging area.

(June 7, 2019 at 8:54 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: I think the Great Carrot was trying to communicate that going back to the moon was part of the plan to go to Mars, i.e a staging area.

I wouldn't put it past Trump to say something like this and mean it literally. But, I think you're right. On Twitter even Phil Plait said that he understood it the same way you did.

(June 7, 2019 at 8:54 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: I think the Great Carrot was trying to communicate that going back to the moon was part of the plan to go to Mars, i.e a staging area.

Such foolish yet endearing optimism

I think this may have been the perfect day of the Trump presidency to break this old meme out:

(June 7, 2019 at 9:21 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:

(June 7, 2019 at 8:54 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: I think the Great Carrot was trying to communicate that going back to the moon was part of the plan to go to Mars, i.e a staging area.

Such foolish yet endearing optimism

It's hardly optimism. I don't harbor the slightest hope that He of Beta Carotene is anything other than a danger, enemy and utter embarrassment to the human race - along with the FUCKING IDIOTS that voted for him.

It's never good to underestimate your enemy, though. I think his grasp of reality is not so fucked up that he actually thinks the moon is somehow a part of Mars. His supporters are another matter. I wouldn't be too shocked if they believed it so long as their orange king said it.

(June 7, 2019 at 7:53 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:

(June 7, 2019 at 7:38 pm)no one Wrote: Well, to be fair, the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere acts like a powerful mind altering substance for the trumpster. And since the trumpster's mind is so incredibly tiny, the most minute amount has the most crippling effects.

I guess the orange hue of his hair is colored by the rusted remains of what once passed for his nerve cell.

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(June 7, 2019 at 7:52 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Which is practically a fait accompli, given that Mars at its closest is about 136.5 times farther away than the moon at its farthest away. And that I could figure this out with fucking Google. Well, I suppose it could be worse. He could be talking about a landing on Venus (with a surface temp of 872 Fahrenheit and clouds made of fucking sulfuric acid) or even on Jupiter (which doesn’t even have a surface to land on.)

Every one knows Venus is part of the sun.   You can't land on the sun, you'll get sun burn.

Not a problem if you land at night!

(June 7, 2019 at 10:23 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:

(June 7, 2019 at 9:21 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Such foolish yet endearing optimism

It's hardly optimism. I don't harbor the slightest hope that He of Beta Carotene is anything other than a danger, enemy and utter embarrassment to the human race - along with the FUCKING IDIOTS that voted for him.

It's never good to underestimate your enemy, though. I think his grasp of reality is not so fucked up that he actually thinks the moon is somehow a part of Mars. His supporters are another matter. I wouldn't be too shocked if they believed it so long as their orange king said it.

I do not underestimate my enemy.  My enemy is no less than a total ignoramus moron with not a slightest hint of where reality resides.

I did overestimate American people and the American system.   American people and the American system prove to be no match for any total ignoramus moron with not a slightest hint of where reality resides.

(June 7, 2019 at 7:53 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Every one knows Venus is part of the sun.   You can't land on the sun, you'll get sun burn.

Trump Wrote:We'll go at night!

I swear that was a joke Ali G made when he was interviewing an astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, I think it was.

That joke is older than Ali G., methinks. I heard it in the '60s.