Trump wants to head back to the Moon again.
The Lovable Irish Rogue
Still don’t believe NASA ever went to the moon FWIW
NASA has done greater things than Trump can conceive of, and he wants to turn it into some sort of military branch operating in space. If NASA hasn't even been to the Moon, why does Trump think it can somehow be turned into some sort of weapon to suit his needs?
The Lovable Irish Rogue
The whole arms race and preemptive strike ideas are ridiculous. You claim to have at least read The Bible, CloudMaker. Please tell me where Jesus talks about militarizing space
Tell me where Jesus said you shouldn’t militarize space LOL
I don’t think space was on jesus’ priority list during his ministry
Question about space. We know how things act in space. How would anybody fire anything off and keep it on target? You would need a lot of power to begin with. If we accept that space is warped we might have another problem. I can understand setting up base a mile or so in Space. It is only when you start going deeper you would encounter more issues. I know lasers seem to be what people mention a lot. Simply because it is just a beam of light. Would lasers be enough? Missiles would be out of the question. Think of the fuel needed to get a rocket to space. That boost needed. Just one of those things to think over.
The Lovable Irish Rogue
Well, I was born in the early 1950's, and consider myself lucky that I have been around to see everything that NASA has done, starting with the Mercury program. Yes, we landed on the moon a total of six times, with 12 men walking on it. The moon is a mere 250,000 miles away from Earth, and with a powerful enough telescope, you can actually see all six landing sites, and the things that were left behind. Apollo 17 was the last craft to go to the moon. More Apollo landings were planned, but because of budget cuts they were cancelled. We haven't gone back to the moon simply because there is currently nothing else for us to do up there. We didn't find diamonds, or gold, or anything worth investing in so why spend money going to a Disneyland that hasn't been built yet-LOL! Getting to the moon was a race between the Russians and us, and we wanted to win that race, which we did...