During his stint at the Pentagon, Griffin also worked on concepts for solar system exploration. He was an impetus behind a NASA-Pentagon mission that uncovered the first credible evidence of water-ice on the moon.
The discovery buoyed the contention that water-ice at the lunar poles could be converted into breathing air for moon colonists or rocket fuel for expeditions elsewhere.
Never did I read anywhere on that mission that the Pentagon was involved. Maybe I must've been asleep while that whopper went by me.
Why is the Pentagon interested in water-ice at the lunar poles? How did Griffin sell a mission like this to the Pentagon?
In other words what threat exists that the Pentagon would need to receive intelligence on when it comes to lunar-ice? I'm thinking it's that if lunar ice deposits do exist they would be prime locations for lunar bases.
I can see the future of the moon being guided by those that control it's main resource: ice. If the US can control the ice deposits the moon becomes effectively American property. The ice would become the future battleground. It's interesting that the US Defense Department is looking that far ahead. I wonder what other governments of the world are thinking themselves.
Go Googling for "Clementine", "Moon" and "1994". This was a test of some proposed Star Wars technology, with the lunar-oriented insturments added on as kind of an afterthought. There never was any attempt to conceal the Pentagon's involvmen.
ReplyDeleteGo Googling for "Clementine", "Moon" and "1994". This was a test of some proposed Star Wars technology, with the lunar-oriented insturments added on as kind of an afterthought. There never was any attempt to conceal the Pentagon's involvmen.
ReplyDeleteNever did I intend to suggest that the Pentagon tried to conceal it, only that it didn't seem to receive the attention I would have figured Left wing anti-weaponization of space reporters in the MSM would have afforded any other story that had the slightest links to the Pentagon.
ReplyDeleteWhat's interesting (at least to me) about this story is that the Pentagon has taken an active role in lunar exploration. To me that suggests they are already considering the future of what a colonized moon might look like and what potential threats could arise.
I was just missled by the fact that I never read about it anywhere. What probably happened is I saw "SDIO" in articles and just ignored it... You learn something new every day...