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NASA plans moonbase for 2020

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Here it is the moonbase that is planned for 2020. This is just the early modual more will be added on.
 
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NASA plans to put a base on the moon by 2020 - USATODAY.com

How exciting we are going to have a moonbase in 2020. However I hope it will continue to be funded. So many things become in jeopardy with budget cuts. I hope we continue to plan for this.
Oh I really hope they go through with this. The author of XKCD says that most planets have a species confined to its surface, because they made the rational, economical decision not to go into space. They are observed by those other species who made the irrational decision.

I don't know about you, but I yearn more than anything to be part of those irrational, space-dwelling species :p

EDIT: This is the comic:

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And this is the alt-text:

"The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision."
 
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And this is the alt-text:

"The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision."

Key word is "remembered". I want to be one of the so-called "irrational" species as well.

YouTube - ‪Symphony of Science - 'The Case for Mars' (ft. Zubrin, Sagan, Cox & Boston)‬‏
 
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Why did scientists begin investigating electricity?

Science should be done for its own sake. The amazing boons of science are rarely predictable. But, if you like, we can more accurately manufacture custom chemical in lower gravity. Medicine and nanotechnology would be vastly improved by research on the Moon. This is what is done on the ISS, but the resources of the Moon would improve this further. It would also allow for much cheaper refuelling of spaceships and the ISS, since the Moon is far easier to land on and take off from.
 
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Why did scientists begin investigating electricity? Science should be done for its own sake.

This is said by people with spare time on their hands ... and that usually means wealthy people. Doing a little historical research will indicate to you that a vast majority of the "science for science's sake" people came from the leisure class of the Enlightenment. Had the serfs working for the enlightened been allowed a vote in "science for science's sake", they would have chosen food instead.

But we live in a different time ... and that was one of Tocqueville's concerns about democracy. He wrestled with questions like this: autocractic societies (or societies under the pressure of war) are more likely to make great advances, but is the sacrifice - a forced sacrifice - worth it? Another difference between us and Volt with his little stacks of metal in jars full of chemicals is the amount of resource required to make further advances.

But, if you like, we can more accurately manufacture custom chemical in lower gravity. Medicine and nanotechnology would be vastly improved by research on the Moon. This is what is done on the ISS, but the resources of the Moon would improve this further. It would also allow for much cheaper refuelling of spaceships and the ISS, since the Moon is far easier to land on and take off from.

So, while I admit that the fun factor for a moon base is pretty high, I don't think it will happen. It won't prove financially or politically feasible. Driving to the moon to get your meds will be too expensive, and al Qaeda isn't building space capsules to compete with us the way the Russians did. NASA has been struggling to find a purpose since the end of the Cold War, and this is just propaganda. They probably have a plan to negotiate down to a little rocket that will carry an autonomous vehcile to the moon's surface.

Sorry to rain on the parade, but that's my prediction.
 
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