Really?

[pimplyteen]

20 billion for a rocket to another planet. We've destroyed this one, so lets send a load of junk to another.

[ToraToraTora]

What other planet are we sending a rocket to? Do you have a link to this interplanetary juncket?

[davebro]

yes - I sometimes wonder if the brilliant minds & huge sums of dosh might be better employed.

[pimplyteen]

I woundnt mind if Boris was strapped in it. :0)

[ToraToraTora]

Still waiting to for you to tell me which planet we are sending a rocket to.

[davebro]

I think it's proposed to create an inhabitable moon base as a staging post for sending folks to Mars. As Arnie said "Get your ass to Mars, get your ass to Mars."

[ToraToraTora]

davebro: "yes - I sometimes wonder if the brilliant minds & huge sums of dosh might be better employed. " - immeasurable benefits have come from space exploration.

[ToraToraTora]

So it's an a clueless invalid question then. The moon is a satellite, not a planet. Should you really be posting in science when you are completely ignorant of it?

[ToraToraTora]

....and when did the Earth get "destroyed"? I must have been out that day.

[pimplyteen]

The worlds most expensive firework. Hope the dam thing goes up in smoke before it gets off the ground.

[davebro]

// immeasurable benefits have come from space exploration.//

oh yeah - I forgot about Teflon!

[ToraToraTora]

do you have a mobile phone pimply?

[ToraToraTora]

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/08/space-race-inventions-we-use-every-day-were-created-for-space-exploration/39580591/

[pimplyteen]

No wheat on the moon or mars.Come to think of it no food at at all dave.

[ToraToraTora]

pimply: "The worlds most expensive firework. Hope the dam thing goes up in smoke before it gets off the ground. " - So you'd rather waste the 20bn than have the mission succeed? Right oh! Your ignorance is breathtaking.

[davebro]

Edison & Marconi didn't send rockets into space to produce their inventions. There's no reason why things accruing from the space programs couldn't have bee achieved by other means.

[pimplyteen]

What a waste of 20 billion when there is so many staving on earth,many even in America. The crops even failing in America.

[ToraToraTora]

I don't have the patience to counter such intellectual poverty.

[ichkeria]

7.17pm launch window starts this evening?
Good luck to all concerned.

[davebro]

Hm - how are we going to produce shock absorbers for buildings? I know let's make a rocket & see where that leads us!

It's just a way of trying to justify it.

[ToraToraTora]

10:48 the money has been spent so you'd rather waste it than make use of it. How will that help the starving? Now that is an obscenity.