Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Does the Moon Have Military Value?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @06:42PM from the only-if-it-was-a-forest-moon-or-ice-moon dept.

MarkWhittington writes "Despite the fact that under President Barack Obama's space policy, Americans will not be going back to the moon any time soon, discussions are occurring about what, if any, military value the Earth's nearest neighbor has. Opinions, as can be expected, vary on the subject."

2 of 332 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:Hells yea... by tm2b · 2011-01-25 19:03 · Score: 5, Funny

Read a great quote a while back. "There are two kinds of Libertarians: those who don't know Heinlein was writing fiction, and those who don't know Ayn Rand was writing fiction."

--
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
Re:Hells yea... by mangu · 2011-01-25 23:43 · Score: 4, Funny

Great quote. Let me rephrase that: "There are two kinds of Socialists: those who don't know Karl Marx was writing fiction, and those who don't know John Maynard Keynes was writing fiction."