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Originally Posted by raging moderate
I think it's officially time to fake another moon landing!
Seriously, though, think about this from the US government's perspective. We're far more likely to try to use the moon as a base for nuclear weapons launches (if we're not already) than we are to try and populate it. Money is the ever-lasting and all-powerful master of the earth and I don't see anything enormously profitable stemming from a moon colony. I of course am wrong in that viewpoint but I doubt I'll live long enough to be proven wrong! HA!
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What advantages does violating treaties prohibiting nuclear weapons in space give us over nuke-armed submarines whose locations aren't even known to commanders on the surface? Launching something from the moon and hitting a target on earth also requires waiting days or weeks for a window of a few seconds followed by days of waiting for a missile to hit its target. There is no logical reason whatsoever to put nukes on the moon.