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Article #806Re: You people and the so called "Moon Hoax"
From: pedro
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 06:12
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 06:12
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Ryan Healey wrote: > pedro wrote: > > > There is no reason to go there again. There are other space missions in > > progress, to gain new knowledge. > > No reason? Are you crazy? Hope not. :) What I meant was that there are higher priorities at present.. given economic considerations, etc., > Only 12 people have been there and only one of them was a scientist. > > Only 6 landing sites all on the near side and all of them in terrain that > was easy to land in. Only 3 of those missions were able to go a decent > distance from the landing site due to the moon rovers. > > We know a lot more about the moon then we otherwise would from the moon > missions. But we haven't really explored it. We don't know whether there > really is water at the poles (possible but it actually seems a little > unlikely at the moment) as well as that the moon contains quite a bit of > He3. Trace amounts would be accurate but given the energy density the moon > could allow us to replace fossil fuels and nuclear fission for power > generation. > > More people need to go to the moon. Although this time it should be > scientists going instead of test pilots. No doubt this will all happen in due course. -- rgds, Pete. ----- Confucius say- "better your ass than mine" http://home.iprimus.com.au/ptw/pedro ~All outgoing email virus checked~
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