Lunar Lodge via Virgin Galactic

[lunalounge]

Is there any truth to the post that Virgin Galactic is proposing a Lunar Lodge on the moon as a commercial enterprise to support NASA launches to Mars? Will NASA have to resort to commercial enterprise in order to accomplish the Mars Goal?

 

[Boris_Badenov]

Do you have a link to an article? Or is this something you heard from another person? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#993300"><span class="body"><font size="2" color="#3366ff"><div align="center">. </div><div align="center">Never roll in the mud with a pig. You'll both get dirty & the pig likes it.</div></font></span></font> </div>

 

[dragon04]

I think that commercial exploitation of space beyond LEO is the inevitable future of manned space flight.<br /><br />As our global population grows, its requirement for metals will out pace practical terrestrial production barring some event that drastically reduces our population growth.<br /><br />Overpopulation of Earth could perhaps trigger extra planetary population, but history has always provided mass extinction events that have ended the dominance of prolific and long lived species.<br /><br />The only thing H. Sapiens has going for it (or against it) in terms of any prolific, dominant species is that we reach sexual maturity relatively rapidly, and that we have a short gestation period.<br /><br />Barring an extinction event, it may well be overpopulation that drives us to colonize the Solar System. The Moon is problematic in terms of known or estimated water supply.<br /><br />As things stand, it doesn't appear that it could sustain a large human population.<br /><br />While Virgin Galactic might envision a "Lunar Lodge", it would be limited to those of great financial means, and of that demographic, the small percentage that would be willing to risk the trip.<br /><br />In my opinion, Mars is a more likely suspect.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <em>"2012.. Year of the Dragon!! Get on the Dragon Wagon!".</em> </div>

 

[usn_skwerl]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>Overpopulation of Earth could perhaps trigger extra planetary population, but history has always provided mass extinction events that have ended the dominance of prolific and long lived species<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />And it's just a matter of time before we're ctrl + alt + del'ed. I think mother nature'sgetting pissed at us to the point of serious consequences. 7 billion people is damn near critical mass. Some sort of plague, outbreak, or sequence of major natural disasters is soon to happen I think. Hopefully the spart people survive, so we <i>can</i> go to the moon and create a habitable area. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[vandivx]

hear hear<br /><br />and you sir are who? some galactic or just Earth spokeman?<br /><br />doomsday prophet dime a dozen these days, give me a break from this environmentalistic driven guilt will ya?<br /><br />people like you watch with glee any unfortunate natural disaster that befalls mankind and god guard us from you getting into some sort of position of power<br /><br />vanDivX <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[usn_skwerl]

uh...right. <img src="/images/icons/rolleyes.gif" /><br /><br />I'm both cynical <i>and</i> realistic; sue me. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[ashish27]

no i think thats a rumour going around in Internet message boards.