RE: Some thoughts about the moon and why we allegedly never went back.

[apolymask]

Agreed in regards to it being useful for testing.

It does indeed make little sense, however we are now exploring Mars so it's kind of a nil point. That doesn't excuse the previous 30 some years in between.

I disagree. Who knows if we will even make it to Mars, and the Moon is still incredibly important for military reasons regardless because it's so much closer to the earth.

Given all of the star and moon gazers, if anything was coming from or to the moon, I would think it would be well documented, right?

It is well documented. There's tons of videos on YouTube showing UFO's flying around the moon and which show weird artificial looking structures. You just gotta look and then decide if you think they are real or fake or not for yourself.

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[jinmi17]

I guess I do. Admittedly, I've not researched much into it.

I recalled a treaty against building military bases some years ago and chalked it up to that as the reason why we never put a base on the moon, or any ohter structure for that matter.

Since I read you post I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Treaty

In practice it is a failed treaty because it has not been ratified by any state that engages in self-launched manned space exploration or has plans to do so (e.g. the United States, the larger part of the member states of the European Space Agency, Russia (former Soviet Union), People's Republic of China, Japan, and India) since its creation in 1979, and thus has a negligible effect on actual spaceflight. As of November 2016, it has been ratified by 17 states.[1]

It's not only the U.S. that's not doing anything there, it's all of the other capable nations as well. That IS interesting!

[apolymask]

That is very interesting indeed. I'm not sure if I've heard of that before or not though I do remember watching a couple documentaries on the weaponization of space. It's a pretty fascinating subject. Whoever controls space, controls earth in a sense..

[jinmi17]

Indeed. That is why there was this treaty and according to the wiki was never ratified.

The same can't be said about our direct orbit and the zone where satellites reside (pardon my ignorance, I can't think of the -sphere). But not the moon....