Rand Simberg wrote:
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 13:51:03 GMT, in a place far, far away, Scott
Lowther made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

No profit, but there are tangible benefits to maintaining a viable US Air
Force.


And you think there woudl be no benefits to maintaining a permanent
lunar presence or manned missiosn to Mars?

None worth the high cost of this architecture, given the trivial
amount of activity that it will allow us to afford.

Landing twenty or more times as much stuff on the lunar surface than a
Saturn/Apollo could do at less cost... and in fact at no great increase
in the NASA budget over the current do-nothing Shuttle, sounds pretty
damned good to me.