[PIF]

Easily demonstrated. I'm on the moon. I hate you or you won't do what I want you to do. Therefore I just use some ingenuity to attach a small rock with a guidance pack addressed to you personally. Ooops.

They get bigger the more power I can generate - say I build a rail gun, then I can send you a very big rock. Or perhaps I'm really pissed. Hop on over to a passing asteroid and send you a kilometer sized care package.

If someone else holds the high ground and that high ground is some 200,000 miles away, you are going to have a very difficult up hill battle.

Those other weapons systems cheap or not you refer to just became ancient history.

[hellbender]

Do you have any idea how much it would cost to establish you on the moon with your rail gun or whatever, compared to what that expenditure would yield in terms of earthly weapons? We can't even afford to eliminate some towelheaded barbarians here on earth. We sit by while the Russians design advanced aircraft in cahoots with India. We sit by while Iran develops nuclear weapons, fearful that stopping them might cut off our oil supply. Our antimissile defenses have been gutted. Our advanced aircraft have been cancelled. Yet you expect us to play around exploring Mars?? Get real.

Our junket to the moon, wonderful as it was, was a classic fascist venture designed to glorify the state. It was started by a spoiled rich playboy kid (JFK)who never did a damned piece of real work, yet pledged billions to that project, while betraying the Cuban exiles, thereby setting up the closest we have ever been to nuclear war. The priorities and the issues are the same as they were then. It astounds me that so-called conservatives think billions spent on space are somehow justified.