Just an article I found surfing the web on moon colonization.
Washington, April 22 (ANI): Eminent scientist Stephen Hawking has called for a massive investment in establishing colonies on the Moon and Mars, arguing that the world should devote about 10 times as much as 0.25% of its financial resources to space.
According to a report in New Scientist, Hawking expressed his views at George Washington University in Washington, DC, US, on the occasion of NASAs 50th anniversary.
In his speech, Hawking focused on near-term possibilities, backing NASAs goals of returning astronauts to the Moon by 2020 and sending humans to Mars soon after that.
The Moon is a good place to start because it is close by and relatively easy to reach, said Hawking. The Moon could be a base for travel to the rest of the solar system, he added.
Mars would be the obvious next target, with its abundant supplies of frozen water, and the tantalising possibility that life may have been present there in the past, according to Hawking.
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