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Pastimes : Should U.S. attempt manned missions to the Moon?
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To: Fangorn who wrote (17)1/12/2004 5:20:19 PM
From: Edscharp  Read Replies (1) of 41
 
Fangorn,

Even after reading your post I still find, "it's difficult to perceive any major tangible economic benefit" for manned moon missions.

The expense from launching from the moon might be small, but getting the equipment and material there will be enormous.

Before we go the moon and mine their fusionable material we need to invent usable fusion reactors first. A small but important point. So, I still suggest we wait on that a bit.

The territories of the Louisiana Purchase were easily accessible by wagon and mule, available to almost everybody at that time. Didn't require government budgets of billions of dollars or special training.

I concede that I didn't follow very closely the events leading up to the international space station.

Don't understand your argument with me about the asteroid. I agreed it was a legitimate concern. I don't agree that going to the moon solves the problem. If it's a guaranteed certainty that eventually an asteroid will hit the earth it's also guaranteed certainty to hit the moon too. Neh?

I hope you're not losing sleep over the prospect of the Milky Way being sucked up in a black hole. I'm reliably informed that this particular event may be months if not years away. lol.
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