<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">A government space program means that all decisions will ultimately be political.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">As for me, I don't know that it's not scientific for humans to go to the Moon. Certainly, this depends on what the science goals are.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Dan</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> GLivick <glivick@sbcglobal.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, July 20, 2011 7:30 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [ExI] Moooon<BR></FONT><BR>
<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">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><BR>FutureMan<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>