Mike,

>No, but that's not the question I was asking.
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>What experiments on the moon urgently must be be done?
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There's no end to what can be determined by the exploration and settlement of the moon. Can mankind survive in space living off the land, for example. Can we convert Helium 3, which is abundant on the moon, to fusion power? Are there others out there, which a radio telescope base on the farside of the moon could really help with.

>I'm all for research into big bang alternatives.

Ummm....like what?

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>I probably heard about it in 3rd grade or something like that and never questioned it.
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>Now it seems pretty silly.
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>Light takes longer to get here because space is expanding?
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>Nah. You really believe that?

Absolutely. You are confusing the expansion of spacetime with the speed of light. The expansion of the universe has nothing to do with c. What the speed of light imposes is the limit of the observable universe, not the universe itself which is probably 10 times larger than that observable.

So what's the alternate theory, Mike? I'm all ears.

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>>Apparently, you're unfamiliar with the NASA science budget for the ISS.
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>>>What do you want to do on the moon?
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>>>Most experiments we want to do we'd want done in no gravity, which we're doing on the space station.