Because I was on the road Wednesday night, I missed the first few hours of reaction to Newt Gingrich's speech in Florida, when he said he wants to have a permanent station on the Moon "by the end of my second term". It wasn't until Thursday morning that I opened up my web browser and saw that every blog, every news site, everyone, was talking about it. I must have had dozens of tweets and emails telling me about it and asking my opinion.
So I found a video of the speech and watched it. The only reason I didn't laugh out loud at the nonsense unfolding from Mr. Gingrich's mouth was that I already had seen the reaction online. In Discover Magazine's Crux blog I wrote a dissection of his speech and why he's so vastly and profoundly wrong: The Newt-onian Mechanics of Building a Permanent Moon Base. You'll ...
