Negative Burn wrote:

>  I just have one question in response to this.  I can see the benefit
>of telescopes on the moon, but why a colony on the moon or mars other than
>to maintain a telescope.  You could mine it, but there is nothing on the
>moon that you couldn't find on earth in the same quantities

Its easier and cheaper to mine the moon and get the material into orbit...
smaller gravity well than the Earth's... and plenty of free solar energy to
use for processing it... i'd rather be there than here if it were possible...
and a telescope on the moon would be as automated and remotely controlled as
the Hubble Space Telescope and all the other telescopes that are in orbit...

Just my take on it

James
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