[Gainsboug]

I work in the Aerospace Industry in America and our Budget just Keeps increasing. Is there any potential for mineral extraction on other planets???

They have proven water existed on mars. If there was plant life there might be fossil fuels. Why would the US government still be spending billions of dollars just to prove life exists. It can't just be to satisfy our curiousity?

[Howard]

Just supports the point that government doesn't really know what they are doing and jsut spend because they can. Besides wanting to line the pockets of some of thier supporters, I suppose they have a motive of keeping the aerospace industry alive so when they want to go to war they have operations already going that can provide war goods like bombers and the like.

If you use Richard Duncan's thoughts as a guideline and we are back to 1930 life stlye or worse in 2030, seems to me that there were not many airplanes in 1930 so that is probably where the aerospace industry is headed.

[Guest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gainsboug', 'I')s there any potential for mineral extraction on other planets???