[extropy-chat] Moon news

[Bill Hibbard]

Just speculating, but manned missions to the moon and mars
that require reductions in all other NASA projects might
be a good way to avoid learning inconvenient facts about
climate change on earth.

This morning Adam Keiper, Managing Editor of The New
Atlantis, was on C-SPAN touting the moon and mars missions.
They might also be a nice distraction from biology for
life extension and other transhumanist goals. Again, just
speculating.

I'm all for sending robots to mars, but would prefer to
hold off on humans until it gets a lot cheaper. The same
money that it would take to get people to mars and back
could fund a whole lot of robotic technology.

Bill
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