Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2011.12.17 21:56:00 -
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Atticus Fynch wrote:very convincing arguments We have surprisingly different definitions for that little series of words, it seems.
To condense the rebuttals in a concise form.
While risky and expensive, the technology to put people on the Moon and bring them back has a very high chance of having existed at the time of the Moon landings, almost a complete certainty. The two big problems are getting people in orbit (which I seriously doubt you're denying) and achieving lift-off from the Moon back into Lunar orbit (the only part that's unprovable with almost complete certainty), whereas transition from Earth to Lunar orbit is fairly trivial.
In fact, most of the prerequisite technology has advanced enough that we can actually afford to have SCHOOL PROJECTS to send equipment to the Lunar surface. JFGI.
So, yes, while proving or disproving with 100% certainly whether they were real or fake is impossible, there's a fairly big chance it's real. And even if it wasn't real, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN, eventually, technologically speaking, with enough funding and after enough tries.
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As to why we're not sending any more men to the moon ? It's as simple as it is sad. IT IS TOO EXPENSIVE TO BRING THEM BACK and THERE IS NOT ENOUGH IMMEDIATE FINANCIAL BENEFIT FOR A QUICK ROUND-TRIP THERE AND BACK. Plus, it's been done by others already, so why bother to do it again just to show everybody else that you can ? Nobody cares about that anymore.
It's pretty much the same reason we're not even bothering to send all that many people in Earth orbit anymore, even if sending people in Earth orbit has far more potential for closer-future financial benefits.
What exactly would be the benefit of sending people on the Moon as opposed to Earth orbit ? The only good reason so far would be to establish a base there, and the only good reason for that would be to mine stuff. But we only need the stuff mined there after we also can make use of it properly, which we cant. And after it becomes profitable to mine, which it isn't, even if we could already use it. As soon as we can use it and it's cheap enough to, we'll totally have a moon base. But not before then.
P.S. But if we can send fully automated mining ops, since there would be no point in bothering with the life support and the getting people back part, it's a good chance we won't get a moon colony anyway. Besides, colonizing some asteroids is more economically advantageous than colonizing the Moon. So, we'll probably get asteroid colonies before we get a Moon colony. http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Contributor_name:Akita_T#Contributions_link_collection |