We should send all the moonbats there.
ever, possibly, soon? No. We sooner live in Antarctica before we live on the moon. There need to be resources there that we want before we would go there.
Not me, but maybe you.
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The Chinese will be the next ones on the moon. America doesn`t thirst for those adventures anymore.
Sure why not spend a 100 trillon on putting a colony on the moon....we are flush with cash...
...And here we thought the bullet train was a boondoogle
According to fed rules all government contracts must be union wages...and built by union thugs
I don’t see how anything could go wrong...
humans? not in the next 100 years.
robots? Probably in 40 years.
If we eve lose our government centric society I would say yes. It will be the free market that does it.
If private ownership and exploitation of resources were allowed, it would happen much sooner.
an extended economic boom that allows us to fund ambitious space explorationThat's what it will take but that can only happen if the West is unshackled and Liberalism, Environmentalism, Socialism and Progressivism are put in chains, forever.
We're a long way from that happening.
As much as I like our odds for living on the moon sometime in the future (as the author says, the future is long), there's also a chance that the envirosocialists will win and we'll all end up eating turnips, riding on donkey carts and living in caves for a greatly extended dark ages.
Remember, liberals, environmentalists, socialists and progressives view the human race as a great evil, and want most of us dead. If they continue to get their way, there's not going to be any great economic boom with its consequent flowering of space travel.
A great way to shoot down the anthropogenic global warming weenies is to ask them to explain why the moon is warming.
I usually pause for a moment at that point, look ‘em in the eye, and ask:
‘Do you think it’s ‘cause of those little lunar rover SUVs from the 60s?’
Powder..patch..ball FIRE!
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress...
I heard really fat people, 500+ and up, would do well on the moon. Their weight would be an advantage.
From the pic it looks like Moonbeam Brown will finally get his high speed rail.
Within the next hundred years, there will be an established human presence on Earth’s moon. I envision something modular like the space station. In fact, the station’s modules could be designed to be transported to the moon for permanent installation there.