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They still aren't feeding the poor either.
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Before any craft is built on the moon it would need to be built on earth. With no plans to do so anytime soon why would we start building the infrastructure required to do it on the moon? |
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Damned leeches.
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Without the political will to do it (go to the moon then, go to mars and beyond today) it will not get done. In 1949 the will was not there. That didn't change until Kennedy's speech in 1962. I strongly suspect that will would have eroded if Kennedy hadn't been assassinated. There is no national urge right now to go to mars. Until that will exists any serious effort toward that goal is putting the cart before the horse. |
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Building a space vehicle requires extremely close tolerances and rechecking those tolerances multiple times. Until telepresence enables someone to turn a torque wrench, use a set of calipers, or manually check circuits it will only have a limited effect on reducing the number of people required to actually be present. |
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I'm not thinking tomorrow, but rather 50 years in the future.
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If you are talking 50 years in the future then why would we be sending men to the moon now? It isn't like we are going to forget how to do it. What we do today will have little impact on what happens 50 years from now. |
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Taking the long view is looking at what going to the moon now is going to accomplish toward forwarding the next logical step, going to mars. I don't see how going to the moon now advances that at all. Add in the additional estimate of $3 billion per year it will require, multiply it by whatever number you want because estimates for space programs are always horrendously wrong, and I don't see the value. |
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