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Worldwide Focus On Going To The Moon
MojoT writes "There's an interesting piece over at Space.com regarding the current renewed interest in returning to the Moon. Quoting: 'Earth's scuffed up and trampled Moon is once again targeted for high- tech visitors. Robotic spacecraft from several nations, as well as NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense, will be first to chalk up lunar return mileage.'"
That sounds like a cool idea, and thats all it is, a cool idea. Seriously now, dumping funding into asteroid detection ... and then asteroid prevention, almost sounds like a 'skin cancer detection and prevention' scheme. Every time I hear about an asteroid near miss or a meteor shower I get the impression that a group of astronomers somewhere need to pay some bills so write some report on how vulnerable we are to scrape up millions of dollars in funding to keep there jobs secure for the next 5 years. It happens in academia all the time.
Analytic & algebraic topology of locally Euclidean meterization of infinitely differentiable Riemmanian manifold
I'm not saying the space program never existed... I'm mearly stating facts along with theory. Don't you find it kind of odd that after 33 YEARS and sending probes to Mars and beyond, NASA has not yet PROVEN that the Apollo Missions' equipment is up there?? I do...