Comment Re:The Space Shuttle is such a waste (Score 1) 221
> Unless you're mining for He-3, what would we be doing on a moon base?
Putting Solar Panels on the moon.
Using the moon as our next source of energy (mining/solar/whatever) is most likely going to be impetus behind anyone going to the moon long-term.
But a far cheaper method of doing that is to send a few von-neumann machines up there to build it for us.
