a) domestically (as in on Earth) it could strengthen international realtions if several countries are working toward a common goal.
b) useful technology will without a doubt come from this. Afterall, problem solving creates strategies and tools. Those strategies and tools then get applied elsewhere.
c) if you've ever played the real-time strategy games Warcraft or Starcraft, eventually, if you don't build expansion bases, you run out of resources. Earth will eventually run out of resources. Who knows, we could hit veins of precious metals or other minerals not far beneath the surface of the moon.
d) eventually, even if it is millenia from now, the sun will nova. Anything in this galaxy will die when that happens. Humanity will thrive if there are colonies in other galaxies.
e) if a global war or epidemic wipes out a large portion of humanity, humans elsewhere might thrive.
It is a small step, cosmically, but maybe humans will one day be able to traverse the stars and colonize places we've never imagined.
Bang, Zoom Alice!
Moderators: MrSpall, bassjones, sevesd93, zenmandan
I'm all for it; I just want private industry to do it, rather than NASA, an extremely wasteful, bloated, and inefficient government monopoly.
If there is reason to be on the moon, private enterprise will get us there.
If there is reason to be on the moon, private enterprise will get us there.
"Yesterday Mr. Hall wrote that the printer's proof-reader was improving my punctuation for me, & I telegraphed orders to have him shot without giving him time to pray." -Mark Twain
"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."
Ayn Rand
". . .and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw."
"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist."
Ayn Rand
". . .and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw."
