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Old 20-August-2006, 03:38 AM
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Originally Posted by jt-3d View Post
Money is it in a nutshell. It costs money. They have a limited budget, why waste it on trying to prove that which they have already proven? No other country has felt the need to go take pictures of our lunar trash from space for the same reason. Not even the USSR who had the most reason to check up on us. We'll just have to wait until 2008 which I think will be very cool.
Just to be clear on this: There is absolutely no justification for going to the moon just to take pictures of where we have already been. The only reasons for lunar survey are scientific or to better plan for lunar settlements. Aside from the cost, a "check up" would be irrelevent. The evidence that we landed is already overwhelming. Moon hoaxers would just say it was faked and everyone else would wonder why the money was wasted this way.
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