CBS Host’s Fears Of ‘Colonialism’ On The Moon Are Too Crazy Even For Lefty Scientist

CBS News host Vladimir Duthiers feared on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s plans to beat China and Russia in the current space race will lead to “colonialism.”

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has expedited the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) timeline to place a reactor on the moon before China or Russia can. In response, Duthiers worried on “CBS Mornings” that maybe the U.S. should not engage in colonial practices because of how it supposedly worked on Earth.

“We know how the age of colonialism worked on this planet. Should we be trying to colonize and say there’s a keep-out zone that not other countries can participate in?” Duthiers said.

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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson stated that, unlike colonization on Earth, there are “no moon beings” that are already inhabiting the moon.

“The real problem with colonization history in Western civilization is that there were people already there,” deGrasse Tyson responded. “There are no moon beings that were just placed there.”

A push for a reactor on the moon comes after experts grew concerned over the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” the amount of money being spent and how it would dump billions of dollars into a currently stalled space launch vehicle