Nasa to build permanent moon base?

Question

What are the advantages of having a permanent moon base?
Why would we want to accomplish on the moon?

sorry: *What* would we want to accomplish

Answer 1

The brutally honest answer is that the base provides NASA with a mission after the Space Station finally falls apart. NASA having a mission provides congressmen jobs to send back to their districts, which keeps the congressmen and NASA happy. I like space travel, I just don't think this goal is a worthy one. NASA will say whatever it has to to make it happen though.

For example, everyone says we can mine helium 3 to fuel fusion reactors. Great! Of course, they forget the little detail that no one has built a working fusion reactor. Trust me, these things aren't just laying around waiting for H3 as fuel.

Another point is that the dark side isn't that great a spot for a space telescope. Adaptive optics now make the atmosphere much less of a problem, but even if you need to go outside the atmosphere a small constellation of satellites would be cheaper, easier to maintain, and more flexible.

Also, there isn't much we will do there. This base is NOT planned as a colony, or even as a test colony. It is more like the Antartic base camps. Sure, some interesting science gets done, but not much in the way of prepping for later expansion.

So in my semi-informed opinion, it is a boondoggle.

I did review the other question though, and not all the answers were stupid or ill informed, even if I disagreed with them. I think the questioner might just be looking for confirmation of his opinion rather than an answer.

Answer 2

The whole point is so we can say to the Russians Hey look up here, wanna come!! That my opinion anyways. It's all politics nasa people want there legacy to go in the history books. and if bush got this done boost for the republicans. Persionaly we should fix the problems here before we go and bring them into the universe.

Answer 3

Outer area is a international land. each and anybody can construct everywhere. no human being has to pay employ a twin of in Antarctica. So how provide them authority over the moon land? They weren't even there. The paper is valueless.

Answer 4

First, it is a stepping stone to exploring Mars. Second, the dark side of the moon is a perfect place for telescopes.

Merely listing all the benefits that we have derived from the space program would take hours!

Answer 5

I asked the same question

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so far, no answers have appealed to me.