re: Griffin tries to pitch "lifeboat Mars"
Ed wrote: It just so happens that the Moon s the best place to find those asteroids and comets.
Chris writes: Minor problem is your are wrong and can't even see you're wrong. You charge anyone who disagrees with you are delusional/nuts and unable to learn. Doug, Mark, Gary, myself and others have shown you to be wrong in your above statement. Yet you insist on it as a matter of faith. This make you irrational and you seem completely unable or unwilling to learn.
As a matter of fact it's all about stable pointing, costs and returns and accessibility for repair. Having two telescope assemblies 180 degrees apart (that is at the two poles) on the Moon looses on all counts.