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It would damage the DNA, not so much the cellular structure, which is what determines who you are. The DNA information can be encoded elsewhere, more securely.

Being a Globalist is impractical as the Globe won't listen to you, If I was in charge of the globe, I'd have Putin arrested for murder, but unfortunately there is no real World Government to impose law and order World wide, we can only elect the government of a single nation. I think having leaders that live in the real world is preferable to those who want to pretend to be in charge of the entire globe when they are not!

What is the use of burying ashes on the Moon? Ashes don't carry the information necessary for reconstituting the person later on, a person frozen in liquid nitrogen perhaps has this information. Space can be cold, a frozen body stored in the right place can remain frozen for a long time without power generation necessary to keep it frozen.

I don't see much use in storing ashes on space, this would be much better!

Native American

Mongolian

Chinese person
They don't look the same.
Latin America was colonized by Spain and Portugal, both are European countries, and just like in North America, those places south of here were inhabited by Native Americans. The Spanish Colonists were spread out over a larger area than their British counterparts, it Brazil it was Portuguese colonists.
Yes some of the Native American's ancestors came from Asia, but not all, some of their ancestors came from Europe, that is why their eyes look rounder that the pictures of the Mongolian and Chinese person, and this all happened during the last ice age. You heard of the Clovis Point People perhaps? During the last ice age North American was full of immigrants, some from Asia and some from Europe, over time they blended together so they look neither like Europeans or Asians today. That process is again happening in North America today.

I don't think we will find life on the Moon, I think it would pay off better to send laboratories to the Moon, than to bring Moon Rocks back here! So a sample return mission, you must pick which samples to return, and upon return to Earth, you can only study those samples! But a laboratory on the Moon can study as many samples as you like. In fact we can effectively put scientists on the Moon without even sending them there! The Moon is close enough to establish a virtual presence on the moon with slow reflexes in teleoperated robots due to the light time delay., but I think AI and GPS systems are sophisticated enough, that if a scientist indicates to pick up a rock, the robot can figure out how to do that competently without direct control by the operator. I think we can build stuff on he Moon with teleoperated semiautonomous robots. You could establish a virtual labor force on the Moon by sending robots there and not worrying about how to bring them back to Earth. If a lander does not include an ascent stage, the extra mass brought to the moon instead could be a bunch of teleoperate robots an equipment. We can build a base by remote control and when we're finished, we can send humans there, this is much easier to do on the Moon than on Mars.

Gee, I didn't know that Spain was an Asian country!

There are a lot of Mexicans in the United States, a lot of them are here illegally, they sneak across the borders, so it seems they don't like their country so much, as they are leaving it. I figure a merger between our two countries would save them the trouble of sneaking across our borders and living in the shadows. They want legal status, I say the price for this is that Mexico becomes part of the United States, a lot of Democrats would just like to give away legal status for free to anyone who sneaks across the border, that is what I call a bad deal! If the Mexicans want to be Americans so badly, then we should give it to them, if not, they have no business being in our country! But we should give nothing away for free, if Mexicans want to come and go as they please, then they should become a part of the United States, that way as United States citizens, no one will harass them.

There is not much stigma for Indians except that left over from those old Western Movies, Hollywood doesn't make them anymore! You ever meet a Commanche by any chance? Of all the Indian Tribes, the Commanche had the most brutal reputation.
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Most of that 200,000 tones would come from the Moon itself, we just need the ability to make the silica glass from the silicates on the Moon, the idea is to let natural sunlight in, and glass is transparent. How transparent is 5 meters of glass?
How transparent is air? You don't want the glass to be completely transparent, because you don't want all the harmful rays of the Sun to get through either. The Earth's atmosphere filters out some of these rays, and what's the point of being on the moon if you are surrounded by opaque walls that you can't see through when you get there?

I think for a Lunar Hotel, you might want to use glass, glass is 2.4 to 2.8 tons per cubic meter, and you need 10 meters of water to provide the same protection against cosmic rays as the Earth's atmosphere provides. I think 5 meter thick glass panes should suffice. Glass is transparent to visible light, but enough of it will still stop cosmic rays. One could make a dome that is 100 meters across out of glass that is 5 meters thick, and it would make a nice hotel that lets in sunshine, while carefully screening out the UV, x-rays, and other harmful rays. 5 meters of glass should do it. The chemical formula for glass is SiO2 and the Moon has plenty of those elements Each  column of glass that is 1 meter by 1 meter by 5 meters would weigh 14 tons, which on the Moon would weigh 2.24 tons, standard air pressure at sea level is 10 tons per square meter, so a rigid frame of steel would have to hold those glass blocks in place against internal air pressure. Most of the construction material would have to be fabricated on the Moon out of local materials.

What does climate change have to do with our ability to produce methane from Earth's carbon-dioxide? So long as we have some, it should be enough. The point is the rockets are reusable, so we can talk about doing things in space that were previously unthinkable. You could have passenger liners with reusable rockets, that vertically take off and land somewhere else. Going above the atmosphere should be faster than air travel. I think rockets would be an excellent way to deliver fighter-drones that provide air cover for our rapidly deployed rocket troops! Would we really need air craft carriers anymore? Why not just go with an aerospace force?

He hasn't done anything yet. I don't think it is fair to criticize someone's job performance as President before he is President.

What if you just put a bomb inside of it and had it explode unmanned?