I feel like there are people who are preventing that. For now at least. People who are hoarding money. After all, once we travel through space it's another level altogether. People who have the financial power to actually make a world their own. Well that's how I see it anyway. I just want to see the stars up close, to see the power of creation and wonder of chaos. See the blackness of the void, and it's deadly cold.
There have been 135 space shuttle missions that we know of. shit there might already be a moon base and we don't know about it. That's one of the thing I've always found funny people see the stealth bomber and never think hay if I know about that its not a secret so there is way better that are a secret that I don't know about. If there was a plague and the government came out and said we have a cure. We secretly build a base on the moon 30 years ago and have been making viruses and cures for those viruses would any one really be shocked? Trillions of dollars in debt the moneys got to be going some where and its sure not going for road repair.
So, in all seriousness, why?
What would the purpose for a lunar base be, and who would fund it? If it's supposed to be funded by a government, that's a LOT of tax dollars being spent, and what benefit is that base providing? Is there a security element at play here?
If it's being funded by private enterprise, by all means, get right on that Elon, except you don't actually like spending your own money on things, you like getting government funding, or other people to spend their money on things, and no one has been willing to fund this particular pie in the sky for you yet have they Elon?
lunar base could be good for things to dangerous here like virus research. I wonder how big of a particle accelerator we could build on the moon, would it work with low gravity and that sort of thing and what could we do with bacteria with the different radiation with no atmosphere on the moon to block it out. Basically there COULD be good reasons for a base on the moon. Either way I find a moon base way more significant than a mission to mars. And ya your right on point with the funding thing. I got no problem with funding for science but this guy if to full of shit at times for me.
What would the purpose for a lunar base be, and who would fund it? If it's supposed to be funded by a government, that's a LOT of tax dollars being spent, and what benefit is that base providing? Is there a security element at play here?
If it's being funded by private enterprise, by all means, get right on that Elon, except you don't actually like spending your own money on things, you like getting government funding, or other people to spend their money on things, and no one has been willing to fund this particular pie in the sky for you yet have they Elon?