[ExI] Moooon

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 04:30:36PM -0700, GLivick wrote:
>    Humans going to the moon is, and always was, a bad idea
>    scientifically.  It was a political decision to go there.  It's a
>    political one that has the space station sitting up in the sky.  Those
>    places are for robots, if we have to be there at all.

We have to be there pretty soon, orelse we'll run out of stuff.

Energy production, computation/storage, mining/fabbing, all of 
this can't coexist with the terrestrial ecosystem for long.

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