Originally Posted by
Jdub2
if you want to deposit fecal matter on the far side of the moon, I’d say no, there isn’t a more simple solution. There’s a wealth of other benefits to the mission too, besides the scatological, but I won’t denigrate your interests
Originally Posted by
METO Guido
Sure about that? At 4 billion, record setting lav service bill. Not to mention the yet to be flown LEM. Wars, hazmat, epidemics and grief. Outer space is uninhabitable for a reason. Besides, the final frontier ends same place for everyone. No matter how far we push an alloy cork. Raymond Chandler coined it, the big sleep.
I am, yes. Are you?
“The Apollo program has been described as the greatest technological achievement in human history.[154] Apollo stimulated many areas of technology, leading to over 1,800 spinoff products as of 2015, including advances in the development of cordless power tools, fireproof materials, heart monitors, solar panels, digital imaging, and the use of liquid methane as fuel.[155][156][157] The flight computer design used in both the lunar and command modules was, along with the Polaris and Minuteman missile systems, the driving force behind early research into integrated circuits (ICs). By 1963, Apollo was using 60 percent of the United States' production of ICs.”
Wikipedia
https://apollo11space.com/42-inventi...pollo-program/
It will be interesting to see how Artemis advances the course of human history. Maybe you should take up reading books