Excellent, but will we have to get the fuel from the ME?

[wonatthewire1]

Though the thought is interesting, I've always felt that there could be so many better ways to utilize all the scientific knowledge at NASA than worrying about building towns on the moon or even going back to the surface.

Same with Mars - it really doesn't matter if there is water on Mars or not.

Perhaps it is a silly thought, but couldn't those really smart scientists be working on alternative fuels, lightweight materials for transportation, you know, stuff that we can actually use.

http://tinyurl.com/3wn4ld

But then again, we could keep the dimcrats off the moon - but I didn't get any thing like that out of the article.

[BillW]

WonATW,

An extreme number of Electronic/electrical (batteries etc.)/Material/Medical advances now available to the general public have resulted from the Space program. Much more than most people are aware.

[WeirdWilly]

Originally Posted by BillW

WonATW,

An extreme number of Electronic/electrical (batteries etc.)/Material/Medical advances now available to the general public have resulted from the Space program. Much more than most people are aware.

Exactly! Nothing pushes the envelope like the strict requirements of space travel.

Without it, we would be, at best, in the 1970s technologically from pure terrestrial technology drivers.

[Tom]

We got TANG from NASA!

[ddog]

Originally Posted by wonatthewire1

Though the thought is interesting, I've always felt that there could be so many better ways to utilize all the scientific knowledge at NASA than worrying about building towns on the moon or even going back to the surface.

Same with Mars - it really doesn't matter if there is water on Mars or not.

Perhaps it is a silly thought, but couldn't those really smart scientists be working on alternative fuels, lightweight materials for transportation, you know, stuff that we can actually use.

http://tinyurl.com/3wn4ld

But then again, we could keep the dimcrats off the moon - but I didn't get any thing like that out of the article.

"lightweight" materials for transpo????

You have to be kidding.

What do you think was a main driver of application of lite weight materials we have now?

You seem to think that progress in scientific areas is something you set your mind to knowing where you are going before you get there.

That is not the way the world works in the main.
Many discoveries were/are "by accident" , a spin-off of some other goal based research project.

By the way , just as in foxholes, where there are no dims or pugs, the same is true in the lab.


"Perhaps" a silly thought, you are too kind to yourself on that one.