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Originally Posted by Number 3
Well I'm not sure about needing water from the moon HERE, but I do believe that ability to NOT have to haul water to the moon is a huge deal. Water is 8 pounds per gallon and you need quite a bit of it to keep a man or a woman alive on the moon......................................for low gravity research and manufacturing.........................which I believe saves human lives.
Surprised by the negativity on this subject. Exploration is (IMO) the essence of mankind. If we didn't explore where would we be today. Or are you just saying we've explored enough and we should just stop now?
Don't get me wrong, I respect your opinions, just surprised a little.
And seriously, just google the things that have resulted from space exploration. Think of things that you use every day that are a result of space exploration. And just think of how happy X will be driving a Camaro on the moon.  |
I am too. :( Maybe it is because of my background and growing up doing a lot of reading on different subjects. There is in us a drive to look to new horizons and try something new. Many of us take a vacation each year to a place we have never been before. The whole tourism industry is based on that. Many of our ancestors came over to this country at some point in time, because they wanted change or just had the urge to do something different. The drive to explore is part of human development (look at how curious kids are when they are young, some people grow out of it, and others it stays with them), when we cease to have that drive anymore, I believe (and this is just my opinion on the matter ), that humanity will lose a part of itself that makes us unique and life is going to get very dull (and I like excitement very much ).
Anybody ever not use a Teflon pan? That material was the direct result of funding for the Manhattan Project.
http://www.chemheritage.org/classroo.../plunkett.html
How about the microwave. By-product of radar research. Yes not direct funding, but many products that we use today were the result of accidents in projects that were funded by NASA, DOE, and etc.
http://www.gallawa.com/microtech/history.html
Water on the moon is significant because, it can be broken down into oxygen (need it to breath and as a fuel) and hydrogen (fuel to power rockets, fuel cells, etc). Just more one does not have to haul up there. Was reading a paper on helium 3 that had very interesting ideas concerning the generation of electricity by using it in a fusion reaction. Nobody knows how much of it is up there, they know it is there and for the most part in what concentrations, but not for sure. Once up there, you need a way to get it back and that takes fuel. Hence why water is so important.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...m3_000630.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3
Don’t want to offend anybody and not looking to change anybody’s opinion. All I ask to look at it from a different angle and keep an open mind.
