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The Case for the Moon

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we-need-more-rocks dept.

apsmith writes "Continuing the flurry of recent hearings on the future of humans in space, a Senate committee on Thursday heard testimony in favor of a return to the Moon. Former senator and moon-walker Harrison Schmitt and physicist David Criswell see the lunar surface as an immense energy resource, just waiting to be tapped. Astronomer Roger Angel sees the lunar south pole as the ideal astronomical observatory, with locations for telescopes 100 times better than anything we've done so far. And geologist Paul Spudis sees a lot of unfinished business on the Moon, to develop it as the "feedstock of an industrial space infrastructure." TransOrbital also sent written testimony."

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  1. Moon by Billistic · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'll Moon you.

  2. Another propaganda hoax by divec · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is just another cynical attempt to embezzle tax dollars - everyone knows there is no moon.

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    perl -e 'fork||print for split//,"hahahaha"'

  3. the Moon is worthless to US gov't by el_gregorio · · Score: 0, Troll
    you want to know why our government isn't interested in the moon? i'll tell you why: there's no oil.

    if the moon had rotting dinosaur bones and pre-cambrian vegetation turning into black gold, we'd be up there faster than you can say "Halliburton".

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    "You want a toe? I can get you a toe by three o'clock... with nail polish."
  4. greatest rocket tech looters by js7a · · Score: 0, Troll
    everyone is living off what was done in WW2, the "greatest generation".

    In the case of rocketry, you mean done by Germans and lavishly appropriated by U.S. military to the shock and horror of the U.K. which lost so much to German rockets.

    If the U.S. WWII generation was so great, they would have dealt with depotic "communists" with patience and economic superiority instead of going paranoid trigger-happy in Korea, Vietnam, and eventually Reagan's Afghanistan. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.