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What I saw in the news yesterday was that the moon budget was zeroed, and all of that money will be spent instead on the study of climate change.
There is of course a solution. The best observation post from which to monitor “climate change” is the moon. So having a manned moon station would give us the best picture of anthroprogenic contributions to climate change.
Problem solved.
The Universe is too big a place to give up so easily. It could yield vast wealth someday , but that day will never come if we give up just as we are getting started.
A pretty idiotic article.
Dat a be right. We be needin welfhare cheks an food stamps and stuff in da hood. We dont be needin rides in spaceships. Dem aliens can scam up ther own bread. We be wantin Obama walkin around cash fo are grins and bling. An we want mony for da lectric an heatin bills an fo are car payment. No need to be wastin cash on stupid thangs like floatin in space.
Take $46.7 billion appropriated for fiscal year 2010 and move it to NASA. Use the money for unmanned missions. Make them as interactive as possible. Hold contests, NASA science camps and offer internships to HS students.
It is irresponsible to stay over-long in the cradle
Also a better summation of his SOTU speech to America is
Nee mun DOH shr sagwa!!!
I agree that robots are better, at first, but not the same kind of robots envisioned by NASA.
Imagine a nuclear powered, horizontally tunneling robot sent to the Moon, and later, to Mars. Its purpose is to mine, reinforce, seal and test a horizontal shaft for use as a long-term habitat for people.
Every inch of tunnel that is mined is cumulative, and can be used many times. In rock, the tunnel shields astronauts from cosmic and enhanced radiation, extremes of heat and cold, vacuum, and on the Moon, its terribly abrasive dust.
This means that instead of bringing down an expendable habitat every time they visit, the astronauts can bring more equipment and supplies. The robot doesn’t have to mine quickly, an inch or two a day would be just fine.
And once the humans arrive, they can use the robots nuclear engine to power their Moon base as well.
All the ‘magic’ of our current technology is a direct offshoot of the moon program 40 years ago. Can one imagine what wonders we can produce in electronics, propulsion, medicine and any technology for the good of all mankind, if we were to mount a manned expedition to the planets, to the stars???
it staggers then mind.....
the Luddite who wrote this has the imagination of a stone.
They're not smart anymore...
-PJ
We should send mining and manufacturing robots to the moon first, have them build factories that then build more factories that then build the equivalent of a “Holiday Inn” on the moon, then we can send our astronauts/settlers there on a one way trip to settle the moon and expand into the cosmos...
We need to colonize space in case some idiot socialist comes to power and runs amok of the entire world, or is too too late for that......
Once China control the skies above us, our options are limited.
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