Gingrich today promised that if elected he would within 8 years fly to the moon and establish a lunar colony that would eventually become the 51st state of the union.
By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American. We will have commercial near-Earth activities that included science, tourism and manufacturing.
That proposal directly conflicts with regulations in the UN Moon Treaty
Article 11
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2. The moon is not subject to national appropriation by any claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.
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Gingrich also clicked his red ruby slippers and wished for a “continuous propulsion system” that would allow travel to Mars.
In a podium thomping conclusion he touted his visionary capability by proclaiming:
I accept the charge — I am American and Americans are instinctively grandiose.
Apparently Americans are born with different instincts than every other human.
And "grandiose"???
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
UPDATE
Some more of MegaNewt's spacey ideas from MotherJones
* We should have had a New York Times Moon bureau by now ...
* Send a team of astronauts to go to Halley’s Comet ...
* Cut food stamp budget to buy space shuttles ...
* Cut farm subsidies, send farmers to space...
* Pay your taxes, win a trip to space ...
* Create man-made climate change, using mirrors ...
* Self-replicating robots in space ...