The Moon's water could sustain astronauts
- Thread starter Deckerd
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Until Arrowhead (or some other botted water company) thinks it'll be worth it to foot the bill to return to the Moon
; (since it seems the U.S. has abandoned the project togo back in the next decade) 
It's called "they're cutting our funding to the point where we're not going to have a job next year".... 2,000 jobs in Canaveral were cut just this month.
The current party in power has been trying to get rid of the space agency in favor of social programs since Senator Proxmire in the '70s.
Except that they're not doing that. NASA's budget is going to rise for the foreseeable future. We do more than launch shuttles, ya know.
Yeah, um, no. NASA just got it's dream budget (from an engineer's point of view). Those Jobs were part of shuttle, which is ending, so we can spend the money on better things at NASA.
Well, that's what the vast majority of NASA's budget goes to.
I know. So the government should come out with a manned program specify and leave NASA to just do it's research.
The US should just make a law saying this: "For any company or companies (limit 3) who can go to the moon and setup a permanent colony consisting of 10 colonists the first year and increasing by 10% in number of colonists every year, the companies will not have to pay any taxes what so ever as long as they keep colonists alive and healthy on the moon and increase their numbers yearly."
Lockheed Martin, Boeing, etc... Would have a moon base setup so damned fast and so many ideas that they had "hidden away for a rainy day" would come to light it would make all our heads spin like a gyroscope.
That would be HOW we could get it done with only loosing a little bit of tax revenue we could easily make up for by then cutting the NASA manned mission.
Lockheed Martin, Boeing, etc... Would have a moon base setup so damned fast and so many ideas that they had "hidden away for a rainy day" would come to light it would make all our heads spin like a gyroscope.
That would be HOW we could get it done with only loosing a little bit of tax revenue we could easily make up for by then cutting the NASA manned mission.
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What sense does that make?
Commander House Yeah I don't think thats a bad idea, heck it might even help the economy in away, put more people to work.
Yea I know
. It's getting rather silly imo. Heck they don't know just how long it could sustain the astronauts themselves... so why do they even bother?
Technically, that's more or less what their new budget does. NASA is going to be relying alot more on private companies for space flight and will spend more time furnishing those companies with technical support and scientific research.
Because manned missions and NASA don't go together. NASA has the research abilities, so it would make more sense to have them just do research as a new government group, or private for all i care, takes on the manned parts.
