Not that I am encouraging Gingrick for President. That is not what this is about. There is a reality about the Moon rarely discussed and quite possibly rarely conceptualized JUST YET.
There is a robotics loop from Honda if one clicks at the title to this entry.
A few facts about what is occurring in regard to the USA focus 'of the future.'
There is currently a Moon Mission the USA has engaged in that maps the surface and quite possibly the subsurface of the Moon. The purpose is to discern the relationship the Moon has to Earth in their development a long time ago. It is important, but, there is also a lot of analysis that will turn up what exactly the Moon is composed of and it is not Green Cheese.
There is also the issue of 'Rare Earth Minerals' ongoing with Afghanistan. China is known to have a bit of a monopoly on that topic. If the analysis of the Moon comes back with a potential to mining of these minerals, there will be colonies on the Moon in the future. They won't be human colonies, but, they will be colonies of robots controlled in offices operated by companies on Earth.
I am sure everyone has seen the Exxonmobile commercial of their sponsorship of projects on robotics in USA High Schools.
We forget all too quickly whom the heroes of the Gulf Oil Spill were over one mile deep.
Robots of the Gulf Spill: Fishlike Subs, Smart Torpedoes (click here)
Meet the 'bots that illuminated deep, dark threats of the BP spill.
Joel K. Bourne for National Geographic News
Published October 26, 2010
SPECIAL SERIES | DEEP IMPACT
Deciphering the unseen, underwater effects of the Gulf oil spill.
Deciphering the unseen, underwater effects of the Gulf oil spill.
This summer, as the world cringed at live video feeds of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from a broken BP wellhead, one message was all too clear: Technology had gone horribly wrong.
What viewers might have missed, however, was that the images were brought to them by a technology that went remarkably right—deep-sea robotics....
