Should america increase the space budget by billions? In 1961 JFK announced that america will land on the moon in a decade. Then that decade was spent toiling away incredibly hard, pouring every resource into space research which is what allowed humans to go from suborbital flights to walking on the moon in just 8 years. But since then progress in space colonization has been reduced to a snail's pace. We've been talking about mars for 30 years but still can't land a person there. Missions keep getting cancelled and delayed by years repeatedly. Things that we can do with current technology are infeasible only because of budget. As a country built on exploration, should america make it's main focus space colonization? If hundreds of billions of dollars were redirected to nasa, then the US would probably reach very far in just the next two decades
>>16800189>Spend X Billions colonizing space>20 years later they declare independenceWhat are you gonna do, send spaceships to glass the moon?No point repeating the mistakes of the brits
>>16800266It would be a very long time before they were self sufficient. There's no living off the land on the Moon.
>>16800327This, plus we wouldn't be contending with an existing local population whose society we trampled and hopefully we'd be bright enough to not give the colonists the feeling they were being exploited. As long as those involved identify most strongly as US citizens there's no problem.
>>16800351Complete Lunartarian erasure. >>16800189There needs to be a new Cold War to instigate things.
>>16800189There's no real incentive to do so so no. It's far more sensible to just invest into space science than start up some prestige project moon colony that's a money sink on life support for 2 years before being abandoned in shame.
Space budget should be increased by billions.Cancer and heart disease research should be increased by billions and treatment should be fully covered for all taxpaying citizens.Nuclear power plants should be constructed and electricity delivered free of charge to all taxpaying citizens.To pay for it, international aid and welfare should be slashed to zero and all illegals should be removed.
>>16801134this. so much damn waste with nothing to show for it
>>16800189There's zero chance of this happening especially with how brown the US is. Money will be increasingly funneled to gibs and funding for space stuff will be attacked as a waste.
