[from occupied ga]

That goes double for the nutjobs with dreams of colonizing space.

They have all sorts of dreams, but they can't tell the difference between science fiction with science.

We have frigid deserts here on earth with air you can breath and 1/1000000 the cost to get there, but there isn't much interest in living there (except for a few government grant supported scientists in Antartica and a few Eskimos in the far north)

I'm all for space exploration as long as the funds to do it come solely from the people who want it done.

[orionblamblam]

> I'm all for space exploration as long as the funds to do it come solely from the people who want it done.


So... should we sell Alaska and the Louisiana Purchase back?

[newgeezer]

We have frigid deserts here on earth with air you can breath and 1/1000000 the cost to get there, but there isn't much interest in living there

Yeah, but the nuttiest of the nutjobs want to colonize space in order to -- get this!!! -- prepare for the day when we're forced to abandon planet earth.

[Strategerist]

We have frigid deserts here on earth with air you can breath and 1/1000000 the cost to get there,

The Adirondacks are composed of essentially the same rock as the lunar highlands as well; granted, it's a park, but if we were really desperate for anorthosite (it's a low grade aluminum ore, basically, not nearly as good as bauxite) it would be about a million times cheaper to get it from there than it would be the moon.

And the lunar maria (low dark areas) are basically the same as the huge basalt flows like the Columbia flood basalts or the Deccan Traps or whatever.