Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Why we made the plans for this mystery" video.

@machinethinking Aerospace engineer here and I absolutely agree on this sentiment. My goal in life was a moon base as was many of my classmates back in the late 80s. We truly believed we'd build Space Station Freedom and then go back to the Moon. Then 1 morning Challenger happened. Irrespective I haven't given up the hope we'll get there and a couple of you videos have brought real clarity to what we'll need to do to build a moon base. Its a simple matter that we can't simply fly everything we'll need to the Moon. Its the simple cost. By various estimates its between 1,000 and 1,000,000 times more expensive to put 1kg on the Moon than it is in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). I do industrial control systems and I can tell you that copper is heavy so wiring up a Moon Base like its the Rebel Alliance snow base in the Empire Strikes back or any other Sci-fi movie is JUST NOT GOIGN TO WORK unless you can get the Copper locally. The same goes for all the other stuff we'd need. But we will need to make things that go together with parts made on the Earth. So one of the most important items that MUST GO to the Moon is a set of Johansson Gauge Blocks. I would NEVER have known that without your video. There's a pile of stuff I have learnt form your videos and unfortunately due to circumstances I can't do a lot more right now than thank you and offer my encouragement to keep doing what you do.
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