I hope we can pull it off. Right now I'm a lot more concerned about whether we'll be able to afford, or even manufacture, the fuel necessary to send a spacecraft to the moon. We're looking at a huge energy crisis in the coming decades, and it's going to take trillions of dollars to replace our current energy economy with renewables. My fear is that because of this, we might have either more pressing budget priorities (hundreds of billions a year for solar and wind farms) or simply not enough capacity (need to conserve fuel for essential needs).
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Date: 2007-03-15 04:23 pm (UTC)