[extropy-chat] Moon news

[J Corbally]

Such a decision by NASA be a boon to other agencies like ESA.  They can 
then push for funding to do the missions NASA would no longer be interested 
in.  Perhaps a lot less duplication of effort, and more cross-agency 
collaborations eg. ESA and China or India.

Then there's the scenario of having NASA run a moonbase on which a high 
tech lab can study samples dropped off by various unmanned ESA probes 
"patrolling" the galaxy.  Who knows, with a moon refinery and foundry, 
maybe it'll be Europe who mines the asteroid belt :)



James...


>Message: 24
>Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 12:03:38 -0800 (PST)
> >From: Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Moon news
>To: natashavita at earthlink.net, ExI chat list
><extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
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>--- "natashavita at earthlink.net" <natashavita at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > >
> > I can see a way around this. If NASA scraps current projects for a
> > more exalted program, then the trickle down effect could occur and
>the
> > "scrapped" projects could go to private industry where their is a
> > growing interest, and this could help it along. I got a lot of good
> > wear out of my best friends' hand-me-down cloths. Of course she has
> > very expensive taste, but so does NASA.
>On the negative side, most of the 'irrelevant' projects tend to be
>science R&D projects, something which the aerospace industry has
>generally seen as NASA's job for the past three quarter century, and
>which themselves don't generally generate much profit.
>On the plus side, it will leave this research to private and state
>universities, taking the work outside the governmental grant rat race,
>and the schools generally do a better job of getting the businesses
>that benefit most to fund these efforts as well. They also tend to
>obtain the gained knowledge more cost effectively than federal programs.
>=====
>Mike Lorrey
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