I somewhat feel that this entire switch in focus to the Moon is like some kind of April Fool’s bad joke, especially when I see these images of lunar cities. They look like crude, low-effort knockoffs of Mars renders. Mars is a world, and the Moon is just a rock. It seems some politicians saw that China is going to land on the Moon by 2030 and instinctively wanted to race them. Little do they realize that America is already the top dog, far ahead of anyone else in the room. Why not just stick with a well defined roadmap? There is no reason for the leader to actively compete against the runner-up, is there? Are these people in power idiotic? No wonder the very same people designed the SLS, that infamous white elephant.(Chun)