[ExI] Moon Bases Not Needed

[Stefano Vaj]

On 30 July 2011 19:54, David Lubkin <lubkin at unreasonable.com> wrote:

> John Clark wrote:
>
>  Yes but that's not what people mean when they say they want to go to Mars,
>> they're talking about spending a hundred trillion dollars or so to get half
>> a dozen people to Mars, have them fuck around Mars for a couple of months,
>> and then spend another hundred trillion dollars to reverse that herculean
>> task and bring them all back to Earth.
>>
>
> Is there anyone *here* advocating that?
>

Yes, there is. :-)

Apollo happened for a reason. Same the expeditions to geographic poles and
to Mt. Everest.

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Stefano Vaj
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