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Space Forum / Space Policy / July 2008Why Do We Explore?
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1174/1 > http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1174/1 Good. Keep slugging. It's a necessary fight we fight for ourselves, for our children, for our grandchildren..... Some wish for Utopia on Earth. They should be careful of what they wish for, though they've been either careful or thoughtful. The infinite Universe of space frontiers is historically proven for moving life in one direction....and Utopia on Earth equally proven for moving life in precisely the opposite direction. GLB > >http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1174/1 > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > GLB And how many Muslims or other faith-based groups have you pissed off or having killed as of lately? - Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth > http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1174/1 I see tourism and colonization as linked. The wrong way to do a lunar program is to have a 2 person habitat that doesn't do much. Eventually tax payers will wonder why it is there. I see tourism as a way to get the body count up to something reasonable. Some tourists will stay which will give you colonists. Building a 20 person town is more of an engineering task than exploration, but that is fine. > >http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1174/1 > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > you colonists. Building a 20 person town is more of an engineering task > than exploration, but that is fine. Setting up an underground lunar habitat (say 100+ meters deep) should be a perfectly good thing to invest our hard earned public loot upon. However, creating the LSE-CM/ISS within the Selene/moon L1 should be an even better goal, because it essentially creates those underground habitats as will as for hosting the 1280 meter 256e6 tonne CM/ISS itself as tethered slightly above the average interactive Selene/moon L1 zone (as close to zero gravity as we’re likely ever going to get), not to mention the tether dipole element that’ll safely reach another substantial space depot/platform to within 2r of mother Earth, and there’s not to forget about the counter-rotating mass of the multiple teraWatt energy storage that’s interactively situated right at or perhaps even slightly below the Selene/moon L1. - Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth On Jul 21, 9:02 am, simberg.interglo...@org.trash (Rand Simberg) wrote: > http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1174/1 Because far too many of us are born-again takers, and not givers. Pretend-Atheists like yourself should already have know this matter of peer replicated fact. - Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth > http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1174/1 If you look at history you will find distinct parallels with our present time. In the time of Vasco da Gama and Columbus spices were shipped from the Far East to Europe with the Arabs acting as middlemen. Today the Arabs, via oil have a stranglehold on the world's economy. SSP and the search for platinoid elements is essentially fighting the same enemy as Vasco da Gama. To an extent we explore because exploration is fun, but you can only get big money if economic returns are promised. You need either oil in the Middle East or spices going through the Middle East to provide that incentive. - Ian Parker > >http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1174/1 > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > - Ian Parker Our Selene/moon is absolutely loaded with complex minerals and nifty raw element incentives, not to mention the vast amounts of cosmic deposits and of what the Selene/moon L1 along with my LSE-CM/ISS has to offer. Venus is otherwise extremely nearby and apparently it’s being utilized as such by others, that by command of DARPA we’re not allowed to speak of. But do you or others care? (obviously not) Perhaps this is all outside-of-box thinking, although as well as being deductively accountable in ways of sufficient peer review that are better off than much of what our mainstream has been forcing us to accept as is. To banish or kill off the messengers seems a bit harsh, but unfortunately that has been the norm of what keeps certain faith- based and mindset folks in charge of most everything that matters. Question of the day is; Can we afford to stay the mainstream course of denial upon denial for the next century? - Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth On Jul 21, 10:02 am, simberg.interglo...@org.trash (Rand Simberg) wrote: > http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1174/1 Very, very good article. John Savard |
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