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TKalbfus wrote:
[That is correct. Underfunding the project is a sure way
to kill it.]


Not necessarily, NASA could simply post a $1billion Moon prize for fiscal 2005.
If there are no takers, then NASA saves that $1 billion and next year it posts
a $2 billion Moon Prize, by 2014 the Prize will be up to $10 billion, by 2024
it will be $20 billion.

Careful who you pick to run the fund.

2021: The Five Swell Guys LLC reaches the Moon but when they go
to cash the cheque, it bounces. Moon Fund Administrator Alfonso Gagliano
is said to be at a loss to explain where the tens of billions have gone.

James Nicoll
--
"Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture
and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure,
and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the
future of the world depends." -Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man Under Socialism"