The space is between their ears.
This is great news - it means that much less money in the NASA budget for hare-brained “climate research.”
The author is likely correct.
Lately, NASA is more able to spend huge sums of money and tell us why the required project can't be done on time or within budget. Not like the old days!
Whereas, an X-prize for a few tens of billions (tax free) for the first American company to do the same project would be a win-win situation -- for everyone but NASA. So, what are the odds?
Zero?
Let me be clear. There is a 0 percent chance that this Moon base or anything like it will ever be built,
This knucklehead - probably an anti-space travel loon - makes the incorrect assumption that rocket tech. will not advance and therefore make space travel much less expensive.
AD ASTRA has a winning power plant that will be able to get to planets in this solar system very quickly. The question is when -- and it won't be as long as you think.
The author is comparing apples with oranges. A lunar base is a needed step if one intends to colonize beyond Earth. For the foreseeable future, humans will be pushing technical and biological limits just setting up habitats in the Solar System.