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Originally Posted by BluewireBrian
because its a waste of time and resources unless we find gold or some other commodity on the moon worth spending all the money to get there...69 it was political, not just a technical step forward...if we were racing al queda to the moon we'd be there in 5 months...
also don't forget, no current spacecraft/rocket is in production or working order to take humans to the moon. Think about the thrust it takes to leave earths atmosphere, let alone its gravitational pull. Those rockets don't fall out of peoples asses you know.
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Yeah, but 14 years? C'mon man. That's ridiculous.
The folks that won the X-Prize could do it for their first time in 3 years with an $8 billion warchest.
If it takes the gov 14 years to put this one together I'm calling bullshit on the 1969 efforts. We were listening to transistor radios back then. There were no computers, no composite materials, hell, all we had back then was aluminum and rocket fuel.
I'm calling bullshit.