Beyond Earth

What is interesting is not so much NASA going back to the moon, but nations like China, India, and Japan doing so. Eventually folks will realize that the moon is rich in titanium and exotic isotopes of other materials. It is also a great place to manufacture really nasty stuff without having any environmental impact on the Earth whatsoever.

Also, of course, the moon is a great "jumping off" station to the great beyond. What I would really like is for NASA to build a large radio-telescope antenna array on the far side of the moon. The moon would shield from virtually all human radio noise and the antennae would have the advantage of being as cold as space around the moon, which also aids in sensitivity. It is possible with computers to subtract human radio noise out of the clutter picked up by Earth-based radio telescopes, but when doing that you always have to wonder if babies are being thrown out in the bathwater. For instance, if aliens are making radio noises a lot like humans make, then those signals would be thrown out too!

Mike I think what your saying is completly true. But what if that trash that is geting sent to space happens to go to neighboring planet Mars? We want to live there by making green house gasses, creating methan and Carbon Deoxide emitions also, but if we start to do this maybe we will be polluting the next planet that we might be living on in the next hundred years. But in other hands you are very educated and you need to keep on with your bad self!lol