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I'm pretty sure there is minimal overlap between the set of people you'd want to hire for a lunar base program and the set of people in need of public works pro
by T-A 10y ago
I'm pretty sure there is minimal overlap between the set of people you'd want to hire for a lunar base program and the set of people in need of public works programs.
- vkou 10y agoReally? Because there seems to be no shortage of unemployed young, educated people in Europe.
- T-A 10y agoWhat would you have them do? Crew? No, you want middle-aged types, preferably past reproductive age, for that. Obvious reasons familiar from decades of discussions about astronaut selection include radiation exposure, elevated risk of casualties and psychology. Design? No, nobody sane would let inexperienced hands design hardware for human space flight and settlement. Hardware production? Maybe some of that. A few hundred people, maybe even a few thousand, mostly watching over the CNC machines doing the actual work?
- vkou 10y agoI feel that you are vastly underestimating the amount of, and variety of work required in this kind of endeavour. Apollo annually took ~1% of the GDP of the United States to get off the ground. And most of the people who worked on it were not astronauts or rocket surgeons.