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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.<br>
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On 7/20/2011 4:07 PM, Will Steinberg wrote:
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cite="mid:CAKrqSyGZ9W2zGD=-rQmhiYFbErsaB_=HKGkj7TjFXbdh-103LA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">How much talking have you to anyone outside a small
cadre of smartypantses about the benefits of these things? I'm
sure if there was a large moon-settler movement that encompassed
all classes of people, that those who could put it into place
would maybe work a bit harder on it. Why don't the average joes
know that there could be countless jobs in space travel or space
building? Why don't they have the information that science is
their friend, that there still is a frontier, yadda yadda?
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<div>Perhaps because those smartypantses are doing more
navel-gazing and star-gazing than proselytizing; all the while,
we see things like, say, yall's graph of the growth of
seventh-day adventists. </div>
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<div>Going to the moon is never going to be just the intellectual
elite, it will be everyone, and it will happen when real people
are convinced enough that it is a good idea that the corpos and
govvies pushing them around decide to actually care. </div>
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<div>Of course, all of the above is navel-gazing on my part. But
if yall sat around for forty-two years waiting
for--NASA?!?!?!--to build a moon hotel without any public
interest, you are sadly mistaken.</div>
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<div>Now what we ought to do is get a moon-terrorist attack going
on ourselves! It sure got us into the Middle East.</div>
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