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Repeatability. Once you can do something, you should be able to do it again. Yet it seems the Apollo program was the only set of missions that were able to land a man on the moon. Human learning is demonstrably exponential, the more you do something the better you get at it. Yet now, we can't send people to the moon any more, despite the advances in material science, propulsion science, computation, etc.
The Apollo program was ~$106 billion by today's standards, the pentagon easily spends trillions of tax money on secret projects. Either we are on the moon, and beyond, or it was all bullshit stage props, and government is totally inept and incompetent. Neither is impossible.
My understanding is that there is little reason to keep going to the Moon because it's barren, devoid of resources. I also have little reason to care either way. There are plenty more, closer to home mysteries to worry about.
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[–] slowcrash101 ago
Repeatability. Once you can do something, you should be able to do it again. Yet it seems the Apollo program was the only set of missions that were able to land a man on the moon. Human learning is demonstrably exponential, the more you do something the better you get at it. Yet now, we can't send people to the moon any more, despite the advances in material science, propulsion science, computation, etc.
The Apollo program was ~$106 billion by today's standards, the pentagon easily spends trillions of tax money on secret projects. Either we are on the moon, and beyond, or it was all bullshit stage props, and government is totally inept and incompetent. Neither is impossible.
[–] Butterbread 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
My understanding is that there is little reason to keep going to the Moon because it's barren, devoid of resources. I also have little reason to care either way. There are plenty more, closer to home mysteries to worry about.