[beachdweller]

I like the idea in theory, but realistically we’re still a couple hundred years from actually being able to do it successfully.

[djf]

U kiddin us? Two hundred years ago was just a few short years after Franklin had done his kite deal and got zapped.

There were no electric motors. There were no lightbulbs. Clocks and paper itself were still an expensive rarity. As was a good soap.

We could easily have a base on the moon in a decade if we had the stones to decide to do it.