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Pastimes : Should U.S. attempt manned missions to the Moon?
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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (2)1/10/2004 1:32:26 PM
From: Fangorn  Read Replies (1) of 41
 
Killer,

re>" The administration was said to see the initiative as an important national security
measure "...

Would someone like to try to explain that?<

Two reasons jump to the top of a long list... asteroids (and comets) and China.

It is inevitable that an asteroid or comet of the size that wiped out the dinosaurs will hit the earth. Smaller strikes would wipe out civilization even if humans survived. Whether the next one is coming next week or in ten million years is anyones guess. The fact remains another strike is inevitable and we currently would have little or no chance of stopping it. A colony on the moon would insure survival of the species and would be a storehouse for knowledge. The infrastructure required to support a lunar colony would give us most if not all of the capability to identify and reach a threatening asteroid and divert it before it could strike the Earth.

China has announced plans to go to the moon. As they have just put a man in orbit it is likely they will reach the moon in a decade. Do you really want a communist dictatorship to hold that high ground alone? I don't.

These two alone spell national security in capital letters for anyone able to read.
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