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Quote by: Muckraker  Why can't people stake claims on the moon? Settlers came to the US and started setting up shop and naming stuff that people were already living on and nobody seemed to mind (except the dislodged inhabitants of course). No-one owns the moon. Wouldn't it just be first come first serve? |
Settlers actually went out the the land they wanted and physically staked a claim. When the average person can go to the moon and stake a claim, maybe it will be honored.
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Quote by: Muckraker I agree that it sounds a bit convenient that, in the middle of the Cold War, we miraculously are able to make it to the moon and back and yet no other country, ourselves included, has done it again. |
We went because we wanted to beat the Russians to the moon. Aside from that, why would we want to go back? What would the payoff be?
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Quote by: Muckraker I hope I live long enough to see some enhance space missions because that Mars Rover thing was mind blowing! |
The first soft landing on Mars, with thousands of photos beamed back, was in 1976. In spite of all the hoopla about the 2004 landing, what new information we got was worth the $400 million dollar cost? More than 30 years later, and we accomplished very little of real value.