Lunar News Network

Just Say No?

SF writer Charlie Stross trashes the whole exploration/colonization project (Charlie's Diary - The High Frontier, Redux). How would you reply to him? HT: Sentient Developments

Wired Bashes Vision

I generally enjoy reading Wired News, I like to keep up on all the cool tech developments, but I was rather disappointed to read this report (How NASA Screwed Up) that is very critical of NASA and the manned space program. Their proposed list of priorities does not include manned exploration and settlement of any moons or planets and instead elevates environmental research as the number one priority. If their priorities are followed humanity will never get off-planet. There will always be those who don't believe in the value of human exploration, I'm just surprised to find such sentiments expressed in a bastion of technology news.