Moon Stock Exchange by 2025 and Mars Stock Exchange by 2050 A.D. should it be our aim to boost the economies?
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How about a stock market for dogs and cats.  I want to boost their financial well being so they will stop meowing and barking at me everytime they get hungry.\n\nHey go get your own food guys, is it my fault you don't have any $$$ - and cut out the we can't open the cans, we don't have opposable thumbs argument, I'm not listening.
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i think that it is very important in a modern society like ours who might one day venture into the unknown reaches of space to be fully aware of our space surroundings. the moon does look pretty promising for a colony.
76598
There is good evidence to suggest that the global patterns are shifting abnormally, but there is also good evidence to suggest that the patterns are not shifting abnormally.\n\nAsk again in 20 years and we'll know for sure.  ;)
297672
what is good about landing on mars? we dint make a penny from landing on moon,,,, just a money waste
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NO.\nCould be end of times for humans but not for Earth.
661886
By 2030/2050 AD\nI have plots in Mars and Venus.\n\nWana buy a plot?
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I like to think that we will have figured out a way to travel to other stars by then, but that may be wishful thinking. But I would think it is almost a sure thing that people will be traveling pretty regularly to the Moon and Mars by then.
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in the next 5 years there will be a lot of people unable to pay their mortgages, so a lot of repos.  in 10 we will be recovering from the disaster of the "hidden inflation" technique of money management by the Fed.  in 25 years we will be asking China if we can have some input and a share of their base on the Moon.  in 40 years there will be no unions, and no consumer protection.  in 50 there will be a great depression, followed by the rise of a labor movement, and the restoration of consumer protections.  Rinse & repeat.
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Nothing is impossible now, with the development of science and technology.  But we should all be careful as not to do what the US did...staging it on a studio to look like the astronauts have really landed on the moon!  fooled us! but not for long, right?
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neither will :)\n\nwait till 2010 - expect newer and more powerful entities compared to the current ones mentioned by you!
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I don't think so. Although gas has gone up since the election. I think the prices were down before the elections to help the republicans hold there power, that way the republicans can help them. I look for gas to steadily increase so at the next elections the republicans can blame it on the Dems. The stock market is controlled by the big corp. They won't let it go down on purpose. The hard part will be trying to keep the C.E.O.s hands off the employees pension funds. Luckily my pension is funded through my union and the gov. watches unions like a hawk. They don't seem to watch company pension plans very close.
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Probably.  Let's, from late 2001 go now (about 5 year), the Sensex grew from about 2600 to 13,616 - 11,016 points.  The Dow 30 took 18 years to grow 11,000 points.  When markets have spectacular run ups like that, the corrections are just as spectacular.  Read about the U.S. stock market crash of 1929.  Get the book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay.  No market can keep such a pace.  At that pace the Sensex should be at 71,211 by 2011 and 372,437 by 2016.  Does that sound normal to you?\n\nI believe the Sensex will have to correct.  When and by how much is anyones guess, but I believe the crash will be as spectacular as the run up over the past 5 years.
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You are absolutely right but unfortunately I don't see it changing anytime soon. History has shown us time and again that as the gap between the haves and the have nots widens, empires crumble. America will ultimately complete its cycle as the dominant world empire and some other empire will rise up to take its place. If our "corporate leaders" were not so focused on short term profit maybe the process can be slowed down somewhat. But in our present economic climate, where worldwide corporations have no allegiance to particular nations, I don't see that happening anytime soon
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not for a long time. nasa doesn't have the funds to do any hugely major projects like it used to. it costs a lot to put stuff into space, and as far as mars is concerned, they're not about to launch
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China has Started a manned Space programme and has said it's aim is to land on the Moon.\n\nSo the Yanks will Try to get get there first.\n\nBut their Space programme is still not up and running properly since the Columbia disaster.
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Yes, If the current plans stay intact, NASA is planning a return to the Moon by 2018 or so. We are going back this time to stay especially if we find water at the lunar north or south poles. There are actual spots at the poles that don't ever get light from the Sun and ice from comet impacts may occury the craters there.\nNASA would have loved to continue it's Moon exploration programs after Apollo, but our government (and the American people for the most part) didn't want to continue to spend the money. I think this was a short sided view. It would be as if Spain had decided to burn it's fleet of ships after Columbus discovered America in 1492!!!
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I think "plan" is an awfully strong word to use for something that is at present only a distant prospect;  it would be akin to someone in Galileo's time saying humanity "plans" to go the moon someday.\n\nTo answer your question, I would relocate in a heartbeat, solely for the adventure of it.  However, I think such a thing is unlikely to ever come to pass, because it doesn't make economic sense.  Just exactly what resources are we expecting to get from Mars?  Not fossil fuels;  you need life to create the fossils to get that.  The principle resource that Mars offers is space.  But even having a whole other planet of breathing room doesn't offer much advantage.   Let's say that the Earth is overcrowded right now, and we want to terraform Mars to increase our space.  Consider that the most optimistic estimates of the time needed to terraform a planet are on the order of 1000 years. But the Earth's population doubles every 30 years.  Long before we could populate Mars we would have outgrown Earth many times over.  Even if God or some benevolent aliens were to terraform Mars immediately, we still would only have 30 years of living before we were right back in the same predicament.  Clearly terraforming planets doesn't help with overcrowding.  The same goes for other resources as well, since other things being equal the greater the population the greater the resources consumed.