moeloli wrote: Fri Mar 20, 2026 8:30 pm
Actually being able to go to the moon would be a huge advancement for humanity,
Assume for the sake of argument the moon landing happened exactly as NASA describe it, how did that advanced humanity?
The time between last mission to the moon and today showed impressive advancement in rocket science, espically when it comes to optimizing for effeciency (I
am still waiting for that detonation engine), and all happened without needing to send anyone to the moon, simply because that's not how R&D work.
Historically and even today, advancement in technology has only been triggered by advancement in material science, discovery and development of new materials allowed for newer or better technologies.
The government and countless corporations (and hey, that crazy Musk who owns "SpaceX") have more than enough money to fund moon trips going by your provided figures.
H̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶b̶u̶s̶y̶ ̶f̶u̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶a̶c̶t̶u̶a̶l̶ ̶p̶o̶s̶s̶i̶b̶l̶y̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶f̶u̶l̶ things like earth to earth through space travel, altho many have pointed out it is useless because, if you want to safely go to space you would need to slow down the rocket (Assuming you have a super fast rocket, you can't go full speed because
THERE ARE HUMANS INSIDE , so you have to take into account human ability to resist high acceleration), the go back slowly to earth.
In other words, going from US to China using a spaceship is
SLOWER then using commercial airplane, let alone the costs and risks.
So even that idea is just on paper, and I doubt Musk went with it.
So neither Musk nor his engineers are crazy enough to do earth to earth travel, let alone earth to moon, it simply not worth it.
also while at it, virgin galactic was strictly aiming on space travel for commerical purposes, guess what, they aimed for earth orbit and not the moon.
why? because even if you would want to make money from space travels, then its enough to send someone just little over 100 km above earth for him to pay you few 1,000,000$
now go and convince some CEO that there is someone willing to pay billions to be sent to the moon.