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I don't see us living there for extended missions either. I do see the importance of what we learned and the inventions that came out of the Moon missions that have positively impacted our lives on this rock. The journey thing. What I don't get, at all, to this day, is why...we still don't have a Moon base.

Read your second sentence in the context of the first.

> I hate this analogy. Not only does it enforce the bullshit teleology of the White European as "discoverer" (you know people inhabited these continents, right?)

Thanks, agreed. On the last part though, it doesn't hurt to explore, a lot can be learned in the process alone, outside of actually finding anything.

> Sadly the pathogen make up of the Americas made safe exploration an impossibility

Indians had no trouble crisscrossing America.

Agreed. The Native American Indians knew how great America was.

Recover material from asteroids much?

I'm not degreed so this is just my off the wall thinking but asteroid mining yes, definitely. I still think we need a Moon base, need to show we can run it successfully for around 2 decades then start seriously planning a Mars mission. As a kid, I'd have imagined we'd already have a successful Moon base.

Asteroids, since I assume they move and possibly in odd orbits might be difficult to reach in emergency situations, I'd rather not see any nation's Astronauts stranded on a remote asteroid.

We aren't close to ready for Mars. We need a base on the moon.

Their newest snapshots looks like they're getting back on track, I wasn't into 1.9. Wishing them the best though.

> They did say that Java MC isn't going anywhere.

Embrace, extend, extinguish is how it always plays out.

I think it was great before mods and quite popular. Notch left and it's not as popular now.

You had better back that claim up. I've seen slow Assembly programs; operating close to the hardware is not a guarantee of better performance.

You're comparing today's Minecraft with all the bells and whistles to Minetest. The original comment about trying to extend it in C++ compared to Java is perfectly valid. It's why Java rose to power and remains. It's why it takes so long to roll out new features in the Windows 10 Minecraft client (which is basically the PE client).