Should the US build a Military/Science Base On the Moon?

Eventually we will have a permanent manned base on the Moon and we will be mining the Moon for exotic rare metals and for H3.

It might be easier to build large spacecraft at this point in time on the Moon as we can use the vast amounts of metals and materials available within the moon for this purpose.

AboveAlpha

 

Assuming all that mining becomes viable, what do you guess will happen when the moon starts to become significantly less and less dense, or assuming the heavier deposits are not distributed evenly across the moon itself, by far the most likely case, and it becomes 'lop sided', heavy on one side and light on the other?

 

We need to get some other Space Stations up and operating to. One out past our moon.

NASA did say we would have somebody back on the Moon before 2020.

 

But but but Obama ordered NASA that it's number one priority is to make Muslims feel good about themselves.

 

Soon he will be set out to pasture. Then we wont have such ridiculous ideas being put to the test.

 

The Moon has been heavily bombarded with asteroids and meteors for several Billions of years thus the entire surface is just LOADED with rare minerals as well the lunar surface contains Iridium which is used to form Anti-Protons.

We could mine the moon for 1000 years and still barely make a dent.

AboveAlpha

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I would hope so.

We will be going to Mars but it will probably be a Private Space Firm doing it.

AboveAlpha

 

Yeah......if sending people. Do you think there will be any survivors?

 

They are attempting to cut down travel time from Earth to Mars from 2 years to 2 weeks.

If they can do this...and they eventually will....travel to Mars will become commonplace.

AboveAlpha

 

I thought they had a group prepared to go. As is, now.

Is that what it is.....2 years? They should have a means to build a rocket to return.

 

They could go now if they used existing tech. but 2 years is too long to allow something to go wrong.

They are better off waiting till we have a better method of interplanetary travel.

AboveAlpha

 

Either way, they should still have those onboard to build a ship to return. It another reason to get a space station up splitting the difference and have a another ship ready to go, docked there.

 

Space is concider as international waters. Anyone has freedom to go where ever.

You cannot have a base in a international space

Got that from the martian

 

You can stick your moon base in your bum bum.

 

This whole argument is moot, don't you all know that the NAZIs have had a base on the moon mining H3 since 1945?

 

Jokes aside...

Military base on the moon, absolutely not. No military reason to it's too far away.

Mine the moon, eventually but by a private company doing so under international law.

Launch platform, near earth orbit makes more since. There's no reason to go all the way to the moon and deal with it's gravity.

Mars, eventually but it's too hard/costly still with no real benefit.

What I do think we need to concentrate on is a US/American space station in geosynchronous orbit over the Americas.

 

Cmon now.....it will be just our Moon base. What if I promise no one will have to do the Moonwalk like Michael Jackson.