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Our enemies want to be top dog anyways, and will build it if we don't because it will give them an advantage.

That is why we must build it, too keep those mutts at bay.

People who want to be inspired.

Its going to happen.

I for one hope the US gets a head start on it.

Did anyone see Alien Plant on the Discovery Channel?

It mostly concerned the discovery of life though.

The biggest speedbumps will be technology and human evolution.

Life support technologies will get so advanced that we can provide for all our needs in comfortable air conditioned, rad shielded comfort. Our Earthly desires will be meet in massive domed environments were everything earthly is exagerated to mythical degrees thanks to lower gravity. Combined with the amazing natural views, and the improved EVA suits that gradually provide a more natural experience, people will be happy with whats there, and will more than likely fight the "pollution" tooth and nail. After a generation or two, people won't know their environment any other way, and won't suffer anyone screwing with it. Besides, an atmoshpere only makes getting to and from space harder.

Which is not to say that terraformming won't happen. Venus is completely inaccessable as is. Mars has a big enough gravity well to serve as a second Earth. But given that moons surrounding gas giants are far more abundant, I think terraforming will not be all that common.

Only when NASA does it first on a small scale to prove the technology in all phases of such an operation will anyone even think of doing it comercially.

And then they go to the aerospace companies and buy what NASA used in bulk at a considerable discount.

And then we'll be off to the races.

  When you put it that way it does sound absurd.

How about a magnetic tracking beacon fired at the car by either by helo or police car. That way we only need to get moderately close once, and can keep an eye on them without putting one in every car and thus pissing off everyone (plus anything electronic can be disabled).

The thing is they still run from choppers, so by the time we can get to the car when it does stop the perp could be long gone.

If landed horizontally and was quickly covered with regolith, they could work as a workshop.

But there are better ways to do it.
*cough*inflatables*cough*

Is there a reason why these proposals are nit released to the public? There shouldn't be anything senstive in there.

When have Congress ever kept its nose out of the president business?

....Well?

*Waits for pics*

:;):

Your going have a hard time getting a Earth like atmosphere with the volitiles (or lack there of) on the moon.

Your going to want to bring in astroids for the others.

On a side note, would it be possible to bring in as astroid slow enough to not make a big mess?

I saw a show on the discovery channel about how ships are brought right onto Indian beaches to be scrapped, and thought it would be a novel solution to the problem of low/no g astroid mining. Of course it would only be practical for small ones, probably less than a kilometer around, but its not like were going to run out of those anytime soon. Plus this way you get much more of the wanted resources in one place, instead of blasting it everywere.