Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
Should we build a village on the moon?
Is space exploration waste of money? The
new chief of the European Space Agency, ESA, argues that there is no wall
between exploration and practical applications. He points out an example of the
greenhouse effect which was found by using satellites and also was discovered
by an exploration mission to Venus.
Then why is he thinking of building a
village on the Moon? He thinks there will a lot of new findings about the universe
from the far side of the moon that could not be seen from the Earth.
Also, the Moon is a practical place for
experiments for humans to travel and settle on other planets like Mars because
it takes only four days from the Earth rather than six months to Mars.
More importantly he envisions the project
shouldn’t be limited certain or selected countries but open to any including
China and Russia. They might be causing security concerns on the Earth these
days but very unlikely on the Moon where only cooperation works.
Enjoy reading and learning about this
ambitious and audacious idea, or proposal.
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