DBWI: No lunar colones

As we know the US started building colonies on the moon in 1985, which was followed by the EU and Japan in 1990 with some help from Russia. The purchase of the technology helped their economy after the fall of communism and they were able to build bases start in 1997.

Is there a way to stop lunar colonies , short of a complete disaster ,after man landed on the Moon in 1969 and what effects would it have?
 
Arguably, the lunar colonies were a complete disaster that should never have been pursued. What has the United States gotten back from its $5 Trillion dollar investment in lunar colonies? I mean, it cost us a massive boatload of money--just for a few lulz?

I would understand if this were really important, but I think the whole program has usurped funding that could have gone into education or other meangingful programs instead of just waving a flag in the Soviet's face.

Even to this day the Lunar Colonies run a bill of $300 Billion a year. That's like 20% of all of the governments spending. The question, I think, is what if the whole space race thing never happened. I mean, shoot, now we've got nuclear missiles in SPACE and trillions lost. What if we had elected someone sane?
 
OOC:For this to be practical, it must a universe where the tech for lunar colonization is cheap and commonplace enough...

IC:Well, there are those valuable minerals they're shipping back--scientists say that a few isotopes find up there could have untapped potential for new energy sources--all they need is a sustained mining operation, and research.

OOC:Seen Moon? ;)
 
OOC:For this to be practical, it must a universe where the tech for lunar colonization is cheap and commonplace enough...

IC:Well, there are those valuable minerals they're shipping back--scientists say that a few isotopes find up there could have untapped potential for new energy sources--all they need is a sustained mining operation, and research.

OOC:Seen Moon? ;)


OOC: Most likely, this is probably a massive loss for America run by a borderline dystopian government. Really, the moon base is just NOT WORTH THE COSTS. Commerical development of space this is NOT.
 
OOC: Most likely, this is probably a massive loss for America run by a borderline dystopian government. Really, the moon base is just NOT WORTH THE COSTS. Commerical development of space this is NOT.


True enough, about the only thing you can get on the moon is minerals and you can get that far cheaper on Earth. Most likely you have cheaper ways to get to the moon. Best guess nuclear powered spacecraft. Use a small chemical rocket engine to get it far away from Earth to prevent radioactive materials from falling on it. You can get a much better payload into space for the same size engines.
 
OOC: Most likely, this is probably a massive loss for America run by a borderline dystopian government. Really, the moon base is just NOT WORTH THE COSTS. Commerical development of space this is NOT.

Well, the US must clearly be ludicrously rich in cash and resources in ths universe. Perhaps, as I mentioned earlier, there is some special resource on this moon that necessitates such spending. Now of course how likely this would be given a recongnizable POD in the 20th century is...debateable...but I'm just trying to make the most sense out of this. Perhaps if the OP mentioned some sort of profit source from the colony, or some overpopulation problem to necessitate it...
 
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