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European Scientists Make a Case For a Return To the Moon

Posted by timothy on from the earth's-attic dept.

MarkWhittington writes "While the official target of NASA's space exploration program remains exploring Earth approaching asteroids, the case for a return to the moon has been made from a variety of quarters. The most recent attempt to make a case for the moon is in a paper, titled Back to the Moon: The Scientific Rationale for Resuming Lunar Surface Exploration, soon to be published in the journal Planetary and Space Science."

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  1. Because Earth Is Doomed by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    One way or another humans will render the Earth uninhabitable by humans. Sooner or later.

    The only way to give humans a chance to survive our own suicidal idiocy is to colonize other places. The Moon is the obvious necessary step towards that.

    There's plenty of other reasons to make it worthwhile until the Earth is done. But let's get started already. There's a chance that spreading somewhere else might take the pressure off and postpone the inevitable down here.

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  2. Re:We're still /. by Nimey · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Is sir of the opinion that /. ever had standards?

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  3. Re:Well, then that settles it. by 0123456 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Taxation is agreeing that some things are best for the state to manage and paying for those from everyone.

    Really? So I can agree that those things aren't best for the state to manage and not pay for them?

    No, I didn't think so.

    You need to focus more on jobs, which will create wealth.

    Jobs do not create wealth. Jobs are a cost. If you think jobs create wealth, you should be eliminating all technology and promoting a Pol Pot-style 'back to the land' movement.

    Cutting spending is creating a spiral of destruction in its wake that is destroying wealth left right and centre.

    Cutting government spending frees up money for private uses. Sucking money out of the real economy to spend on useless government non-jobs makes you poor.

    The problem is that the governments which have had bloated borrow and spend policies are also typically the same countries that have been pushing regulations that have destroyed much of the private industry in their nation. So they're fscked either way.