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Comment on Many Americans think NASA returning to the moon is a waste of time and it should prioritize asteroid hunting instead, a poll shows

blackluster117@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The technologies we invent along the way are worth the investment, in my opinion. Look at everything that came out of the original space race.

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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Nah. If we go back to the Moon, we are going to need more than “new technologies”, but an actual purpose.

Right now, Helium-3, rare earth metals, and a slingshot to the rest of the solar system are good reasons to colonize the Moon if we can figure out how to do it cheaply.

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Yoruio@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
like ICBMs and freeze dried ice cream sandwiches!

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- blackluster117@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Only the finest thermonuclear strawberries were used, now it’s all artificial crap.
  
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