In case you weren't aware of the fact, the U.S. military maintains a presence in outer space via the Air Force Space Command located at Vandenberg Air Force Base. . . and, no, national defense doesn't require people to actually be in outer space. National defense is being maintained through unmanned space missions. If you believe that manned missions are needed (without help from other nations) in order to maintain national defense, then please explain why.
Because robots won't be mining the mineral resources on the moon, or defending them, and Americans won't be on THEIR moon if your Messiah is allowed kill Constellation and Ares.
Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution says, "The Congress shall have Power To . . . establish Post Offices and post Roads."
The phrase "post Roads" doesn't mean "the road to the future". The phrase means that Congress has to power to establish physical roads to be used to deliver mail.
Right.
The physical road to space involves advanced rocketry.
But...if we want to take your interpretation, then it means "doing the research to build monocrystalline diamond cables to support equatorial elevator to a geosynchronous space station." Which means we STILL need Ares and Constellation.
Oh? Why is that? Your evidence to support your claim is . . . ???
If you are going to claim that Americans need to return to the Moon, then please explain why.
1) While the Messiah-killed Air Borne Laser Test Bed worked FLAWLESSLY and would be, if it hadn't been killed, a reliable theatre defense system, no current or projected ABM system is capable of defending against a stealthed nuclear warhead launched electrically from the moon and entering atmosphere at 12 kilometers per second.
The Messiah does not like a defended America, anyway.
2) Germany and Italy, in 1900, had spend 0 years of the previous three hundred developing 0 colonies overseas. Neither nation is a significant player in the global marketplace now. The other European nation', notably France, Spain, and Britain, dominated the world political scene for those three centuries. Since there are no moon people, there no moral issues with seizing moon resources and exploiting them. If the US does not work to get it's share, the US will cease to be relevant, and that will happen in the near future.
3) China in the 1400's had ships capable of crossing the Pacific and exploring California. The short sighted policies of your Messiah were first employed by the Emperor of China who refused such expeditions. China remained an economic and cultural and scientific backwater while Europe rose to global ascendancy. China is not repeated the failed mistakes of it's past, your Messiah should not be allowed to repeat the failed mistakes of China's past, either.
4) Confuscius say "he who hold all the cards wins the game". If the Messiah is successful in his order to kill the US manned space program, the United States will no longer have cards in the game.
5) Explain why the Battle of Bunker Hill was tactically important, why the Redcoats were willing to spend so many lives to get the patriots off that hill.
6) Why were old European castles routinely built on high nearly inaccessible mountain peaks?
