We need to jump over the moon, again, and stay there this time with an American base, incentivized with US dollars and achieved by Yankee and private consortium ingenuity. This is a space race with China for domination of the stratosphere and beyond. And it’s a race to establish a better eye in the sky and launching point to further explore what’s out there for edification and profit and to protect our solar rock and species.
Meanwhile, there is huge extractive and other technological spin-off pay-off for the capitalists and precious sociological/ psychic value, which Newt groks and Mitt can’t, in establishing a permanent lunar presence. Romney will be a conventional terrabot in my first sci-fi endeavor who gets elected to lead the USA to sensible, moribund mediocrity at the start of a Sino-lunar dynasty.
