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"....Why We Should Go to Moon and Mars"

Because we can and it would be wrong to live forever in the cradle.

One day the sun will die. Our descendants had better be seeded throughout the galaxy by then.

4 posted on 03/11/2009 5:53:50 PM PDT by muir_redwoods ( O.B.A.M.A. = One Big Asinine Mistake, America)

To: muir_redwoods; All

I agree.. It is about the future..

5 posted on 03/11/2009 5:55:04 PM PDT by KevinDavis (No one should question our "Dear Leader"!)

To: muir_redwoods

I'd like to think so, but I really don't. The nearest star is Alpha Centuri, which is 4.2 light years away. It would take numerous generations just to go there and return.

I don't think there's the kind of generational interest to support the endeavors necessary for advanced space travel. We currently have the technology that we could set up a permanent base on the moon, but the question remains, why? EVERYTHING would have to be transported from earth for survival, and it would be a bleak existence. It makes as much sense to set up colonies under the ocean.

7 posted on 03/11/2009 5:59:24 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)

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