Comments on: Back to the New Future of Space http://metamodern.com/2009/02/26/new-future-of-space/ The Trajectory of Technology Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:14:01 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Marcel F. Williams http://metamodern.com/2009/02/26/new-future-of-space/comment-page-1/#comment-597 Marcel F. Williams Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:27:33 +0000 http://metamodern.com/?p=2050#comment-597 Part of the romance of space travel is the hope that someday humanity will expand its civilization beyond the confines of the Earth. That's why so many space enthusiast are in love with the idea of colonies on the moon and on Mars. And there are also practical reasons to expand beyond the Earth when you look at the geologic history of devastating asteroid and comet impacts on the Earth's surface and the growing danger of more nuclear armed countries, and the potential catastrophe of some sort of biological weapon plaguing the human population on Earth. Establishing a permanent lunar base would actually justify the need to exploit volatiles from from the asteroids. Although I advocate exploiting the moons of Mars before beginning to exploit the asteroids. Mining the moons of Mars http://newpapyrusmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/09/mining-moons-of-mars.html Part of the romance of space travel is the hope that someday humanity will expand its civilization beyond the confines of the Earth. That’s why so many space enthusiast are in love with the idea of colonies on the moon and on Mars. And there are also practical reasons to expand beyond the Earth when you look at the geologic history of devastating asteroid and comet impacts on the Earth’s surface and the growing danger of more nuclear armed countries, and the potential catastrophe of some sort of biological weapon plaguing the human population on Earth.

Establishing a permanent lunar base would actually justify the need to exploit volatiles from from the asteroids. Although I advocate exploiting the moons of Mars before beginning to exploit the asteroids.

Mining the moons of Mars
http://newpapyrusmagazine.blogspot.com/2008/09/mining-moons-of-mars.html

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