From: ulrich.schreglmann@t-online.de   
      
   "Ken Taylor"  schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:bts   
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   > > > Newsuser "Manfred Bartz"  wrote ...   
      
   > > > > Personally I think the Beagle mission had a better and more ambitious   
   > > > > science package.  They were going to look for past and present life,   
   > > > > not just at a few rocks in search of past water activity.  Oh well,   
   > > > > maybe a few missions down the track we'll get serious....  :/   
      
   > > > Do you think, that SETI is a 'good science'? :)   
      
   > > Yeah!  All these "Close Encounters" type missions, and in all   
   > > this time, when was the last time we had a rover roam the Moon?   
   > > That's a place whose resources could actually help us on Earth--   
   > > solve our energy problems and all that.  And it would be the   
   > > ideal jumping board to the rest of the Solar System, if we were   
   > > able to build and launch rockets from up there.   
      
   > > ("Aluminum, silicon, oxygen, low gravity and lots of solar ener-   
   > > gy to be had..."  *That's* music to my ears!  As opposed to:   
   > > "Ancient fossilized microbes found on meteorite--maybe."  So   
   > > what, even if they were??)   
      
   > I'm not aware that we've run low on Al, Si or O2 just yet.   
      
   Not for Earth, dude!  For space!  There isn't that much of it in   
   the emptiness of space.  You either shoot it up there from Earth   
   or from them Moon.  From the Moon is cheaper--theoretically, if   
   you can build and maintain facilities there.  Near Earth orbit   
   asteroids are another possible supply of all sorts of materials   
   needed for large orbital power stations.   
      
   > There's also a   
   > bit of solar energy available in this half of the world. If you really want   
   > to go into space to get it, go to earth orbit, no need to go to the moon   
   > (much longer power cord!).   
      
   You go to the Moon for the *materials,* not the location.  Much   
   cheaper to launch--  Wait, I've covered that point.   
      
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