[PIF]

Wonder what you’ll say to the Chinese when they are in that position? Or the Russians, or the Indians?

I think you are just another progressive troll with absolutly no sense of the future. Keep studying your navel, maybe you’ll find some more lint to pick.

[hellbender]

I have been a conservative for about 50 years, which might be longer than you have been alive. That's a real, constitutionalist conservative, not someone who thinks it is OK to spend billions of tax dollars on my pet enthusiasms. I made crystal clear that any spending on space related to national defense was OK by me and by the U.S. Constitution. That does not include probes of Uranus, PIF.

If someone could prove that bases on the moon were economically viable, private companies would be falling all over themselves to build them. The fact is that such projects are not viable, and probably never will be.

Far from being "a troll who has no sense of the future," I am concerned that we have in fact no future at all if we do not act sensibly and Constitutionally in the near future. Before you go bashing fellow FReepers as trolls, you should check their posting history. I checked yours, and believe it or not there is much that we agree on.