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2025-08-07 Science & Technology
CBS host warns Trump admin plans for moon base could usher in new age of space colonialism
[NYPOST] CBS News host Vladimir Duthiers questioned the Trump administration's plan to establish a base on the moon and drew parallels to Earth's history of colonialism.
Oh noze! Those poor, abused Moon Maidens! Whatever will they do??
On ''CBS Mornings Plus'' on Wednesday, Duthiers and co-host Adriana Diaz discussed the White House calling for more human space exploration and administration plans to build a nuclear reactor on the moon to precede an eventual U.S. lunar base with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Diaz asked if it was ''inevitable that we're going to have to go to the moon and try to colonize the Moon?''

Tyson said that the United States is being ''reactive'' in a race to the moon with China, and stated, to the laughter of the panel, that he does not want to ''live on the moon.''

But Duthiers questioned if colonizing the moon was a good idea.

''We know how the age of colonialism worked on this planet,'' the host said. ''Should we be trying to colonize and saying that there's a keep-out zone that no other countries can participate in having?''

Tyson replied by pointing out that it would be difficult to colonize an area that does not have people.

“Well, the — the real problem with the colonization history in Western civilization is that there were people already there,” Tyson said.

Duthiers and Diaz agreed, and Tyson added that “there are no moon beings that were displaced as far as we know.”
Ah, yes. Stupid people discussing things they don't know anything about, using ideas they were fed in college bull sessions.
Posted by Fred 2025-08-07 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| ||Comments [132 views ]  Top

#1 "You want alligators, I'll give you alligators!"

Between 1788 and 1868 the British penal system transported about 162,000 convicts from Great Britain and Ireland to various penal colonies in Australia.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-08-07 00:19||   2025-08-07 00:19|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#2 CBS? What a joke.
Is this on X? Then it didn't happen.
Please stop giving these lying media air. Don't help them speak to us.
Let us forget they ever existed.
Posted by Elmomoter Mussolini9149 2025-08-07 06:17||   2025-08-07 06:17|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#3 More like Antarctica.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-08-07 07:21||   2025-08-07 07:21|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#4 God forbid we start mining the moon,Mining the moon woulds make it look like the surface of the moon!
Posted by Vinegar+Spolusing6485 2025-08-07 11:18||   2025-08-07 11:18|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#5 

Moon Base to be used to store Epstein files ☺
Posted by NN2N1 2025-08-07 11:41||   2025-08-07 11:41|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#6 A statement so retarded, couldn't even get egomaniac activist Tyson to play along.
Posted by swksvolFF 2025-08-07 11:52||   2025-08-07 11:52|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#7 Tulsi Gabbard on the ‘Mainstream Propaganda Media’: ‘We Should Accept Nothing They Say at Face Value’

I'm sure Tulsi would include CBS in the Mainstream Propaganda Media.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-08-07 13:04||   2025-08-07 13:04|| Front Page || Comments   Top

#8 "Trump cures cancer -- women, minorities hardest hit"
Posted by Matt 2025-08-07 14:01||   2025-08-07 14:01|| Front Page || Comments   Top

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