SvennoJ said:
curl-6 said:
The moon is a stepping stone to the next real breakthrough; Mars. Earlier this year NASA unveiled plans for a moon-orbiting space station, dubbed "Gateway", that will serve as a testbed for long-duration space missions such as reaching the Red Planet. https://www.space.com/nasa-plans-artemis-moon-base-beyond-2024.html As to how this benefits humanity back home, our long term survival as a species is dependent on reaching beyond the Earth. Our planet, at least in so far as it can support our continued existence, is finite and vulnerable. We cannot rely on it forever, especially the way we're going. We need to go beyond this one small island in the celestial sea and become a spacefaring civilization in order for humanity to flourish. |
It makes more sense to spend the time and money on fusion power plants and ways to accelerate the move to a hydrogen fuel cell economy, instead of using fossil fuels to fly to the moon. Without that kinda tech we're not going anywhere on Mars.
But sure, both can be done at the same time, while a lot more needs to be done before letting humans lose to destroy new planets. If we can't survive on Earth in the long run, we certainly won't survive on Mars. |
I completely agree that we must transition away from fossil fuels as much as possible and work on becoming energy-sustainable. That too is essential to our long term survival.
We need to do both if we still want to be around in another, say, 100,000 years, at least as an advanced civilization.
