Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
This guy thinks he's resolved one of the most enduring conspiracy theories with a video he found on the net, and then calls everyone else deluded


I found Obama's quote. It's from a speech at the Kennedy Space Center in 2010 - not 2014, but that's a minor detail.

“Our goal is the capacity for people to work and learn, operate and live safely beyond the Earth for extended periods of time, ultimately in ways that are more sustainable and even indefinite.” He also said: “Early in the next decade, a set of crewed flights will test and prove the systems required for exploration beyond low-Earth orbit. And by 2025, we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space. We'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history.”

Your video only contains the sentence in bold, which removes the context - humans not just making a quick visit outside of Low Earth Orbit, but being able to live there and using it as a base to explore deeper into space, past the moon (which is what deep space means).

Source Documents Fans will be delighted that they can watch Obama's speech in full:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFNYScnhq9E

And read about the strategic plan (presumably since shelved, I haven't looked into it) here:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...1hhrg57174.htm
FINISH HIM!