[extropy-chat] Re: NASA going back to the moon

[spike]

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> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Re: NASA going back to the moon
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> > -creation of a station in the moon, after 100
> > billions, excluding cost overruns, spent on throw away
> > hardware,
> Just a note here. The "throw away hardware" is apparently necessary since
> they have proven that they cannot create a reusable system that costs
> less.
> In certain applications, throw away hardware is much more efficient.
> Imagine
> having to clean and reuse syriniges.....


That is right.  It has proven easier and cheaper to
build new stuff than to somehow burn it back in thru
the atmosphere.  I would propose that we go on to
Mars and start building habitation facilities there,
since there is much more promise regarding raw
materials there.

The future big advances are not in lifters or 
reentry bodeis, these being mature technologies 
but rather in miniaturization of the payloads.

spike