[DaGman]

Why is the federal government looking for more ways to waste money. There is no economic benefit in colonizing the moon. If this country had more money than it knew what to do with (i.e. nobody paid any taxes) I couldn't care less. Instead we are looking for more frivilous ways to spend more money.

[Old Student]

"Why is the federal government looking for more ways to waste money. There is no economic benefit in colonizing the moon. If this country had more money than it knew what to do with (i.e. nobody paid any taxes) I couldn't care less. Instead we are looking for more frivilous ways to spend more money."

Because the Moon is the first step to the rest of the solar system, and once we have a station there, we can reach anywhere else we need to go. There is a TREMENDOUS benefit, and not just economic, in doing so. Just ONE little benefit, we could move most industry off-planet, and make the greens happy without having to do the zero-population-growth BS.