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Re:If We Can Put a Man on the Moon, Why Can’t We Put a Man o... by thaumasiotes on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @03:19AM (#16050635)
> It's a bit like asking why we don't build a habitat on the bottom of the Marians Trench - we COULD, but why WOU[LD] we?

This is overstated. We could build a habitat on the moon. We cannot build a habitat on the bottom of the ocean; that's much, much more difficult.

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Re:If We Can Put a Man on the Moon, Why Can’t We Put a Man o... by pvaldes on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @05:25AM (#16051053)
But would be much more rewarding, because we know that this other "moon" has living creatures that are practically unknown to us.
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