[BC] A very interesting fact behind the Apollo Mission to the Moon

[Tom Spencer]

Hmm...

By that logic, we should all be sitting around the little stream at the 
bottom of the Olduvai Gorge snarling at each other over who gets first 
crack at the hyena that fell off the cliff last night.  Hyena steak 
tartare.  I think I'd rather stick with Moonwatcher.....

Why go to the Moon - and stay?

Because it's there.

I can think of a SCIENTIFIC mission that Luna is BEST sited for - 
radioastronomy (that 2200 mile thick ball of rock makes a GREAT RF 
shield); even optical and other high-energy astronomy would benefit - 
and don't yell "Hubble".  there's a limit to what can be lofted into 
orbit - but using lunar silica, a MUCH larger, and more stable, 
instrument can be built.

Why go to Mars?

Mars has the same basic problem as Luna - 0.3 g won't retain a 
terrestrial atmosphere, either, over geologic time.

We've already lost 40 years  of potential progress...

Let's not loose any more.

RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote:
> Methinks that the engineers of yesteryear, have been replaced by dreamers with little intellectual honesty and less technical expertise.
>
> Somehow the fact that the moon has been airless for a few years, allowing anything that can evaporate (like water) to have long ago gone, seems to escape the dreamers who refuse to even await the results of a moon-crash which should dislodge some debris, exposing it to analysis.
>   

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Tom Spencer
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