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CMV: There is no real reason to go back to the moon. (lemmy.world)

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NASA has an "Artemis mission" planned. The goal is to establish a permanent moon base. But I don't see what we can do there that we can't do with robots. We'd have to provide space for people to live, and food, and water, and all that stuff. Not even mentioning 1/6 gravity isn't exactly healthy.

I'd rather we just send robots to the moon and do what we need to do there until we can easily build huge habitats for people.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The space race created a shit load of scientific advancements that we take for granted today. And they significantly improve our quality of life.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies

We weren't able to get humans to the moon without these breakthroughs. So we made them. We're not going to be able to have a permanent base on the moon without breakthroughs. So we will make them.