Posted on 07/04/2022 4:24:34 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Their waiting until someone in the USA develops planetary terraforming technology so they can steal it or have a politician sell it to them for pennies on the dollar.
Right because a base like that would be so easy to re-supply and protect from radiation and other militaries? Don’t allows these autocrats to push us to silly spending plans because of fear. Of course this is what pushed the Russians to bankruptcy back in the day, trying to keep up with Starwars programs. About the only useful purpose of the moon, might be as a staging place to astoriod mining, though even then a habitat orbiting the moon would make more sense, then entering and leaving its gravity well. Most rocks as is with meteors today never make it past our atmosphere.
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