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Many Americans think NASA returning to the moon is a waste of time and it should prioritize asteroid hunting instead, a poll shows (www.businessinsider.com)

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Many Americans think NASA returning to the moon is a waste of time and it should prioritize asteroid hunting instead, a poll shows::Americans like NASA, but don't support their funding going towards moon missions, according to new polls.

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[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The technologies we invent along the way are worth the investment, in my opinion. Look at everything that came out of the original space race.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 31 points 1 year ago

Nah. If we go back to the Moon, we are going to need more than "new technologies", but an actual purpose.

Right now, Helium-3, rare earth metals, and a slingshot to the rest of the solar system are good reasons to colonize the Moon if we can figure out how to do it cheaply.

[–] Yoruio@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

like ICBMs and freeze dried ice cream sandwiches!

[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 1 points 1 year ago

Only the finest thermonuclear strawberries were used, now it's all artificial crap.