Detmersdislocatedshoulder said:
in follow up to many of your replies i would agree there is a costs associated with it but there are benefits as well so it's not sunken costs. advancements in technology were discovered and improved due to space travel. it also seems that the moon could be a great starting point for travel to mars in the future. lastly although we have gone and therefore we don't see a benefit of going back i am surprised other super powers like china haven't done it. just to show they are on equally footing in so many words.
good discussion thanks for your responses all good ones.
One of the points of going back to the moon was to use it as a stepping stone to Mars. That's been a plan for some time. One issue is that space, in general, was deprioritized by the US.
And I will go there and say that while I do believe we went to the moon, I can totally understand why many would think we never did. Anyone that thinks we wouldn't fake it if we felt it necessary is ignoring our governments many examples of lying and manipulation. The last three years should have cured anyone of the illusion that they won't lie, cheat, and steal for whatever reason they want to.
From a tech standpoint, I wonder if there is a bit of Dark Ages aspect here in that we've forgotten how to do some of the things that got us there in the first place. I wonder how much we would have to relearn all over again. We've gone from a total analog era to all digital. How many people are left that would even know how to do a lot of the manual stuff we were doing back then?
