Re: Why the HELL haven't we gone back to the moon yet?

From: starlord (starlord_at_despammed.com)
Date: 10/09/04 

Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 08:09:07 -0700

First of all, the first moon base would need the first raw supplys sent up
from earth, but that would come along with each shipment of the building
gear. By the time it would be done, they would have a full hydoponic system
set up and the plants which would be used to filter the recycled air could
also supply extra food stock too. Everything would be recycled, so within a
short time the need for vast amounts of supplys from earth wouldn't be
needed. Power would come from a network of solar power farms spread out is
such a way that there would always be power. By the time the moon base would
be oh say 25 years old, it would not need raw goods from the earth, the moon
itself would provide.

But people who just stick their heads in a hole in the ground and don't use
their minds to see what can be done, are a total lost. 

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"Troy Heagy" <hondainsightful@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Chris L Peterson
> > There aren't many places in the world where people aren't reliant on
outside
> > support....I live in the high Rockies- damn little of what I eat can be
grown
> > here. By your criterion, these mountains are not settled.
>
>
>
>
> I think you missed my main point - independence.  People live on the
> frigid Siberian Tundra *without outside support* because they eat the
> reindeer and use the furs for clothing/tents.  YOU can do the same in
> the rockies/alps (just like the American Indians did).
>
>
>
> No such mechanism exists on the moon.  No air.  No soil.  No animals
> to hunt.  Without food, you can not survive, so there's no point in
> moving there.
>
> YES we could spend trillions of dollars shipping food from
> earth-to-moon, but why?  For what purpose?  And what happens if the
> ships stop launching (worldwar or some other catastrophe)???  The
> Mooners would die.
>
> It makes no sense to settle the moon.
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>
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> Troy
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