Russia & India to send joint manned mission to Moon

In message - "Stuart Wilkes'
mom" writes:


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When they get there, they should let us know what the point is.


Although this particular schedule (Moon by 2008) seems totally unrealistic,
the attitude of "what's the point of going there" might prove shortsighted
for US in a long run. Despite the mantra "Apollo missions were only footsteps
and flag missions" perpetuated by idiots at CNN (and their "compatibles",
i.e. most other media) who can't grasp anything beyound footsteps and flags,
there had been LOTS of scientific knowledge gained from the Apollo missions
(those who aren't intimidated by very technical explanations might read
"Apollo Lunar Surface Jounal,
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/frame.html").

In particular, regarding the current energy-related world politics, there
are millions of tons of He-3 on the moon (and orders of magnitude more
in gas giants with Uranus being the preferred). Assuming someone will find
a way to sustain De + He-3 or He-3 + He-3 fusion, the Moon (and later
Uranus) can be viewed as sources of almost non-polluting (De + He-3) or
intrinsically non-polluting (He-3 + He-3) energy.

If US will continue resting on their lauras (sp?), they might end up
paying Chineese/Indians/someone else for He-3 in the same way they
pay Saudis today for oil...


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