Ice on the moon a "game-changer"

[dar512]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

So your next vacation you'll be sending some guy you don't know, have only seen on TV, and demands the Presidential suite at the Hilton? Think it'll be just as good as going yourself?:p

Sadly, I will not be going into space personally. I'm too old and we waited too long. But I'd like to hope that my children's children could go if they had a mind to.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

There are much more beneficial frontiers, right here on Earth.

I don't have any objections to pursuing those as well.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

We whom would not be sad, out number you by an order of magnitude. Space geeks represent a tiny fraction of the world.

Really? When did you do the survey?

If this does turn out to be true, then that just makes me sad as well. It means we really have turned into a nation of bean-counters.