I'm American thank you very much! I was just wondering, sheesh!
BlazeEagle
Dr. Core wrote:
Chris Campbell wrote:
tell us more than Hubble? Is mining going to be worth the trouble? What?
Building a permanent space station seems like a useful and worthwhile
project. By contrast, building a moon colony just seems...well,
looney. I don't get it.
Here is an article (in Chinese) that's actually interesting:
http://www.atchinese.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26175&Itemid=110
Unfortunately Asia Times don't always translate articles between the
Chinese and English editions. If it doesn't appear on the English
edition within a week... well it'd be a shame...
The title is "Energy exploration is key of US's return to Moon plan;
the "Flag-planting race" officially begins". The article made many
speculations and interpretation of US's space plans. One key point is
that nations are now in an intense race to reach and squat on the
Moon; with the emphasis on the squatting greater than on the reaching.
The article speculates the value of Moon colonization to be Helium-3.
(no, the article didn't mention Minovsky by name) According to the
article, Earth only holds a few hundred pounds of He-3, but the Moon
holds a reserve of 1-5 million tons, enough to provide all of humanity
energy demands for "thousands of years".
But I should go on record saying that many statements in the article
are factually wrong, mainly in the area of fusion power generation.
That puts doubt into other claims made by the article. Hey, I said
it's interesting, I didn't say it's right.
BlazeEagle wrote:
Competition is fine as long as it stays positive, but sometimes, would
it not be better to temporally put aside competition to help each other
out in such a big project? I'm NOT proposing a one world government or
anything of that nature, I'm just wondering.
Put aside competition? What are you? A COMMUNIST?
NASA's mission is to maintain US leadership position in global
competition. Getting rid of competition is putting the carriage
before the horse. And it's the same for Russia, Japan, China, India,
Europe etc. Space programs are put in place to achieve competitive
advantage. Putting aside competition will remove the biggest
motivation for space exploration.
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