Thank YOU SIR! You saved me from having to jump in and point out that little tid bit. RAH actually did all his own calculations and even had the military wanting to hang his butt, because they had proposed a moon base in the mid 50's, and launching weapons from it (rocks as well as nukes) was actually part of the plan. His wife described his frustrations in an article after his death, he was amazed at how such a simple concept could be so hijacked. The thing everyone misses is you actually have to accelerate the object past the moons escape velocity, and then have it on a course that allows Eart Low Orbit injection, and then you have to de-orbit on a path to your target. RAH had grain canisters with maneuvering rockets, and the catapult got it past the moons escape velocity. Prof and Manny rode one down for their conference on Earth with the cabal of govt officials.
The real issue here is a candidate for government seeks to squash a private business from doing what it wants, and the silly people who would ride such a boondoggle, for an inane reason like that. Her logic is that a proposed trip that would be a swing around the moon and a return would then lead to "Moon Attacks" misses a whole bunch of in between steps, like getting to the lunar surface, building a catapult, and maneuvering said rocks. Also, she is doing the typical Dumbocrap "We own everything because none of you neobarb plebeians can be trusted to use it wisely" (read: sell it for your own gain/political contributions, nest egg donations and book deals).

I doubt it very much that the Congressional idiot ever read Heinlein. Or anything else, except for Cliff's Notes of Marx and everything published by Hussein and Hillary. There really is no reason to read anything more.

She failed to mention that the moon goes "stealth" during the daylight hours. An attack could come from anywhere.

What the h is wrong with you people. Fitting.

Yes. She would think I am the quack.

This was some pretty telling reporting from Watters.http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/02/09/watter...

Now, he is the poster boy for stupid, only stupid is probably smarter. The worse part is, he is a minority calling another minority "termites"? Really. Hasn't he ever been in the "I'm offended you used the "n word"" gang? He is actually more arrogant than The Beast or FelonyPelosi. He also needs to be made the poster boy Dumbocrap they roll out every time they call one of the sullied Republicrats "racist, bigoted, prejudiced" or any of their other thousand odd hot button labels.

What if she wins election? Remember the guy who asked an Admiral if he thought an island would tip over if we put too many troops on it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnk0t...

I'm not too sure on the GPS thing, considering your signal comes from a string of satellites circling at 12,540 miles You need 4 for a fix, so what could you do from the moon when you are much better off jamming the carrier frequency? IN fact Wiki describes it as: It is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that provides geolocation and time information to a GPS receiver in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.

They also say: In addition to GPS, other systems are in use or under development, mainly because of a potential denial of access and potential monitoring by the US government.

I'm pretty sure they were not so worried about the moon in that statement...

Uh...I'll stick with Newton on this.

Would take pretty good aim to hit someone from that far away. Hell, I miss the trash can sometimes.