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Re: Lunar Water Discovery Announced
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Originally Posted by oddjob
If you are spending your own money, you more or less don't need to get any support from elsewhere. To spend the publics money, on things other than banks and car union bailouts (don't get me started), you'd better make it pretty interesting! That's why Mars works - it's a massive challenge AND captures the publics imagination. The moon - didn't we do that 40 years ago?
There are plenty of home grown megaprojects to pursue too e.g. fusion power, how to set the earths thermostat to exactly where it was in year 2000 because that's just so perfect (sarcasm), etc..
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I understand and agree to an extent. My only contention is that the moon was "done" 40 years ago. Sure we may have gotten there then. But we are far from done with the moon. I think thats the main point I'm trying to make.
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