[FPSPACE] Use of Moon

[DSFPortree at aol.com]

Ed:

In terms of politics, there's no reason to go to the moon. Another way of 
looking at it - in terms of politics, Venus would be as good. Or an asteroid. Or 
Mongo.

You can have dozens of scientific reasons, commercial reasons, spiritual 
reasons, whatever, but if there's no political reason commensurate with the cost 
of the venture, it's not going to happen.

Besides, Bush isn't funding it - does that sound as though he gives a drat 
about it?

We need to have alternatives ready. I like this "Return to the moon with the 
Russians" idea. We could give them a tour of the Apollo 11 site.

David

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around the Sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're 
falling through space, you and me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little 
world, and if we let go..." - The Ninth Doctor








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