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NASA to spend $20B to build a base on the moon
- xvxvx 7mo agoYou could house every homeless Americans for 18 months for that cost.
- allan_s 7mo agohomelessness is not just a house problem. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2605901/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2605901/ most people don't become homeless because they don't have a house, but because they lost/lack the way to keep one. And not only on the financial plane.
- FrankWilhoit 7mo agoPer launch, how much payload mass can be orbited and then injected into a translunar trajectory? What is the minimum mass of a base worth the name? And most importantly, why is no one willing to push back on such mere and flagrant nonsense as this by asking these questions?