Re: ....Question? Have They Found a Reason to go 'To the Moon and Mars' Yet???

On 6 Apr 2006 17:52:29 -0700, in a place far, far away,
Ordover@xxxxxxx made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as
to indicate that:

That (as usual) is your ignorant opinion, not a fact.
Yup. And, given the metrics available for lunar exploration, manned missions
are more cost effective than unmanned in many respects,

Easy to say when we never sent an unmanned rock retrieval mission to
the Moon, and you're messuring in terms of pounds of rock. You've
decided that manned spaceflight is what you want, and you're twisting
the stats to justify it.

We'd have learned as much from a rock retrieval mission - or missions -
as from all the manned missions combined - and cound have done many,
many more of them.

Bullshit. You ignored the other metrics he described, focusing on
rocks.

But ignoring that bit of disingenuousnous, show us the numbers for the
cost of one, or many robotic "rock retrieval missions" that would
justify your ignorant nonsense.
.

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