Accepting that it may not be viable to go back for economic reasons, although that's ridiculous given NASA's budget increases over the decades since 1969
So we should go back to the moon just because we can afford it?
NASA itself has claimed they lost or destroyed the technology
So? We'd do much better to start from scratch now anyway, but why bother? "Been there, done that" The politicians seem to think it's much better to spend money on gibs rather than gee-whiz tech now anyway.
our own recent advances in commercial tech like the cell phone your holding being thousands of times more powerful than the lunar lander
And that has what to do with anything?
>So we should go back to the moon just because we can afford it? <
Yes.
our own recent advances in commercial tech like the cell phone your holding being thousands of times more powerful than the lunar lander
And that has what to do with anything?
They can't see outside their consumer product worship
Congrats, you're fucking retarded.
So we should go back to the moon just because we can afford it?
No. I said, "Accepting that it may not be viable for economic reasons..." And then proceeded to make a separate pont. I concede in the very sentence you quoted that economically going back for the clout of saying we did it again doesn't jive with current governmental spending habits.
So? We'd do much better to start from scratch now anyway, but why bother? "Been there, done that" The politicians seem to think it's much better to spend money on gibs rather than gee-whiz tech now anyway.
I agree. The point isn't that we did it already, just dust off the lander and an old Apollo rocket and let's do that shit again. The point is that NASA said, when asked why we hadn't gone back, that they had lost the tech or destroyed it and that's the reason why we won't go back. That point is rendered moot by my second point...
our own recent advances in commercial tech like the cell phone your holding being thousands of times more powerful than the lunar lander
And that has what to do with anything?
The fact that we have better tech now and could do it again with half or less than half the R&D they did in the 60's bolsters my point that NASA claiming "we can't do it again cuz Jimbo shredded the blueprints" is horseshit.
It sounds like you have a deep seated need to go back to the moon. Why don't YOU do it instead of whining why NASA won't go back?
We never went in the first place, bubba
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