We're never going to get the materials and equipment to the moon required to colonize and industrialize it until we can get stuff out of our gravity well in a cost effective manner. I guess I was a bit harsh when I said that a trip back to the Moon was pointless - it isn't. But it is really nothing more than a big publicity stunt that might get a real space program going again - which is a good thing. I guess my sights are set just a tad higher than landing a man on Mars. I'm thinking on the scale of Dyson Spheres, Von Neumann probes, etc.
I'm thinking on the scale of Dyson Spheres, Von Neumann probes, etc.
And here all I could think of was a new home for the Palestinian state, and not a jew for parsecs.
Course it might get a little cold way out there...