Colonizing the Moon
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for me, the moon crumbling scene from The Time Machine comes to mind.
A total, almost unimaginable, waste of scientific resources, intelligence and funding. The moon is pretty much useless as a "test" for colonisaton. As Carl Sagan once said it would be one of the biggest mistakes in NASA history to set up a colony on the Moon. If we truly wanted to become interstellar travellers and go deeper into our solar system and leave our solar system, a staging base and half-way point would make leaps and bounds more sense on Mars than the Moon. The Moon is just too damned close, and there's nothing there.
I don't agree. The moon has 1/6th Earth's gravity, Mars 1/3, so it's much easier to take off from the moon. With the right technology stuff could be built on the moon for future missions, solar panels could be placed for energy and fuel generation. It costs much less fuel and time to go to the moon. Also it's not true that the moon is useless. It still has a lot of unknowns and could tell us a lot about the earth and how it formed.
Like that it's hollow and full of aliens! Seriously, though. Sagan was a bit of a dreamer, and purportedly a pothead (bless his soul).
I think that this assessment of a Mars mission is pretty on target...
http://www.videosift.com/video/Fools-Walk-Where-Angels-Fear-to-Tread-Mission-to-Mars
*Fish swims into picture*
Lockheed Martin is in on this... Try to not screw up space missions by using imperial measures again guys!
Moon dust into drinking water is very cool
*long
Interestingly, I was joking about how awesome a moon base would be at dinner today.