Gingrich on the moon

So we are toying with the idea to put up a post on Gingrich's plan to establish a human colony on the moon during the next decade, eventually numbering 13,000 people so that they can apply for US statehood (never mind that the US signed international contracts that put the moon beyond the reach of national sovereignty claims, and never mind that it's an old election ploy, employed by both Bush sr. and jr. in their bids for a second term). Newt Gingrich, who happens to be member of the Republicans, a party against waste, deficits, and monetary excesses (except when they aren't). Now, in all fairness, Gingrich posited that the initiative would have to be financed by the private sector, but still, whether it's private or public money, sending the money to the moon will cause problems if there isn't enough of it left. So we roam the internet to find out. The answers are not very precise ($$ 100,000,000 per person comes up several times, which would amount to 1 trillion, 300 billion for the entire project, roughly the price of the Iraq war if you don't count the human suffering --- but that's only about getting the rednecks to the moon, not about keeping them there, well, perhaps it's worth just getting them there, let's think about the oxygen later, 1.3 trillion for 13 thousand, that amounts to ... yes, exactly a one with 16 zeros for all American rednecks (hundred million), or roughly 7,692 times the price tag of the Iraq war, as we calculated it). Anyhow, we abandon the idea of a post until we think of Wolfram Alpha, the site for precise answers (Wolfram developed the Mathematica application without which modern physics could not exist). Wolfram Alpha. Here's Wolfram's answer:

Note the last line: "Computed by Wolfram Mathematica."

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Glenn sends this play on Gingrich's marital math: