Patranus
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As for not even trying, we're up to out necks in debt and economic bullshit and you think we should be focusing what resources we have on building a moon base?
A big problem with now vs then is that we know a lot more about space and the moon. Things that weren't know about or weren't thought of as a threat before are now a large problem for a long term base. Could we build a moon base of course we could, but it is going to cost a massive amount of money. I am all for NASA and space exploration, and I would love to see NASA have a much larger budget. Yet I would much rather them spend money on unmanned missions, new propulsion technology,... We can work towards getting a manned space program again, but I don't want just another generic rocket. We need to first come up with some new stuff before we bother building a rocket to send people into space.
So what do we have now?
We are pissing billions away to discover starts and planets millions of lightyears away through telescopes. Woot!!!!
This research has little to no practical application in the real world.
The new propulsion technology, ect. comes from bold initiatives like manned space flight, landing a man on the moon, and the next logical step - setting up a moon base.
Not only that but America has to look at this from a strategic standpoint. The moon untimely contains resources that at some point man kind will need. The sooner America develops the technology to establish a permeant base, the sooner America can assert control of those resources.