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- teh_spazz, on 07/22/2008, -2/+28All we need now is a moon brothel. Accompanied by the moon pub.
- inactive, on 07/22/2008, -0/+22Instant Moon Base... Just add water
- dha07030, on 07/22/2008, -1/+14One step closer to moon sex! Giggity!
- beerncheese, on 07/22/2008, -1/+10With built-in moonbounce, I hope.
- Lister169, on 07/23/2008, -0/+8Now I'm confused. Does that make it a moon or a space station?
- anagoge, on 07/23/2008, -0/+7I'm not going anywhere unless there's wifi.
- DeathRay2K, on 07/23/2008, -0/+6Earth has a thick atmosphere.
- CerMakAlot, on 07/23/2008, -0/+6Moon people, with their instant moon bases. Pretty soon they'll want the vote!
- ginogrz, on 07/23/2008, -0/+5Moon Unit Alpha and Moon Unit Zappa.
- legsthebass, on 07/23/2008, -0/+5Enjoy your commercial air travel, weather satellites, directv, portable computers, telecommunications...
NASA does more than you think. - RogerStrong, on 07/22/2008, -1/+6Radiation isn't magic.
For short term stays you line the outer walls of your spacecraft with equipment, your food and water supplies, etc.
For long-term stays - a REAL base as opposed to a temporary outpost, you cover your habitat with a couple feet of lunar soil. - MiniCooper2007, on 07/23/2008, -0/+5With some exotic outer-space women, I hope.
- ryleyleckie, on 07/23/2008, -0/+5Thanks for being a douche.
- jman583, on 07/23/2008, -1/+5That's no moon...
- starmanjones, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4there are a lot of us saying the same thing. honestly it doesn't get much better than a Kevlar bag filled with foam of some sort. it inflates like a life raft.
- edebolt, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4I am waiting for the instant Helium 3 extraction and refinery plant. The holy grail of energy sources to bring back to earth.
- JammoBlammo, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4Well for one, if we were to ever launch shuttles from the moon, it would cost far less than launching from the gravitational "bear hug" that Earth provides.
That, and they have to hurry up and stick a US flag in the ground ;) - xtal3, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4I put on my moon-robe and wizard hat
- Kanten, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4Spoiler: Earth is in space.
- legsthebass, on 07/23/2008, -0/+4Because, historically, we're not very good at getting stuff to land on Mars. We also haven't flown a new manned space vehicle in almost 3 decades so testing new vehicles and new habitats 30 million miles from earth is pretty risky.
- appleseed1234, on 07/23/2008, -0/+3To obscurity! Away!
unless you meant "too obscure" - sanman, on 07/23/2008, -0/+3Earth girls with short miniskirts will do
- mrinsanity, on 07/23/2008, -2/+5Arse Rocket?
- Justice101, on 07/23/2008, -1/+4Guinness...moon beer. But they'll serve it by weight instead of volume. So when you order an Earth Pint, you get a giant beer stein. : )
- albybum, on 07/23/2008, -0/+3Far too remote for an effective demonstration
- CecilBenedict, on 07/22/2008, -3/+6The first version actually looks like one of those "Moon Bounce" inflatable hoobajoobs at amusement parks and child's birthdays. By the way, how will these structures protect the astro-dudes from LETHAL SPACE RADIATION? Seriously, even places made out of lead don't work to protect against the radiation in space.
- appleseed1234, on 07/23/2008, -0/+3I think you mean a Cantina.
- DeathRay2K, on 07/23/2008, -0/+3Early adopters always get the worst of the issues, and in this case the issues could be fatal. ;)
- appleseed1234, on 07/23/2008, -0/+3Not for you, unfortunately.
- JammoBlammo, on 07/23/2008, -1/+3Remember that chick in Total Recall with three boobs?
- docbob84, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2I'd bet more than half of the readers of Digg would risk their lives to live, even for a few weeks, on the moon. I know I would, I'd sign my name today.
- anagoge, on 07/23/2008, -1/+3A moon station perhaps?
- afx114, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2I hereby officially volunteer to be a test human for living up there.
- JammoBlammo, on 07/23/2008, -1/+3Moon base? Umm... ewww!
- GlassAgate, on 07/23/2008, -0/+2Do we have the know-how needed to send people on
the three year trip to Mars? - robfrye, on 07/23/2008, -2/+4Buried. No mention of moon alligators.
- mark076h, on 07/22/2008, -4/+6Why don't we just go straight to Mars with something like this?
- GlassAgate, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1We need to build Unicron, minus the homicidal A.I..
- Roger_Ramjet, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Uh. The Ares V rocket won't be landing on the moon. It's not part of the plan. Like the Saturn V before it, it will carry the moon lander which will be extracted by the command module and both will head to the moon. Get your facts straight.
- GlassAgate, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Once it arrives, along with space men:
"Alright, who didn't pack the water!?" - starmanjones, on 07/29/2008, -0/+1>Are all diggers retarded like you?
don't know.
>MARS IS A PLANET,
>THAT MOVES
>AWAY AND TO THE EARTH
i think he was referring to the simplicity and utility. when some talk about going to mars it gets cluttered with development of technology and huge unnecessary expenditures. its an industry. there are a whole bunch of people... space activists that ain't interested in hearing why we can't.
30 or fewer people built spaceshipone. it was the chief engineers first job out of college. it has more in common with a ski boat than the space shuttle. the astronaut was 60 plus years old. it drops back to earth on a rutan feather. it is the only stick and rudder non fly by wire... mach 3 aircraft...
i differ with many because i believe we should go to the moon and develop near earth facilities as a priority.
my true thoughts and i'm not alone or retarded are that we establish our selves on the moon and start heaving things to mars using tethers that buzz aldrin advocates or use mass drivers... rail guns.... that we use to move material off the moon. we are good at using orbital mechanics to get things where we need them. no need for more than thrusters to make course corrections.
either way we can put things like kevlar and foam buildings on a slow trajectory to mars and use the same principals we use now to land delicate instruments. slow using orbital mechanics when we get to the vicinity of mars... aerobraking... parachute... air bags. we could have a huge pile of equipment waiting for when ever we got there. there is a lot of stuff that can handle high g's and isn't delicate. food. pressure suits. lots of stuff. . if we loose a couple they were cheap.
just so you know. your description and estimate of 30 years is so far off we can tell you don't know squat. the trips you are exaggerating include timing for a return. we're staying.
you are a can't do it person. we want to leave you behind because you would jeopardize our success and lives with faulty thinking. - Wildthing, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1It's actually supposed to be a multiple use rocket. One of the ideas was to put a space telescope larger than Hubble into space. I'm pretty sure that won't have a command module and lunar lander with it.
So it's not impossible for the rocket to just be carrying something else such as a moonbase. - starmanjones, on 07/29/2008, -0/+1i actually don't much disagree with you. i do think we need near earth facilities to support other missions. but i do think that we have new and better materials. the shuttles computers are less than the one in my lap right now.
between Mir and the ISS we have around 30 years of living in space and survived several disasters that should have killed everyone. didn't. we... "earth people" not claiming the russians good job.... we have subs that can stay underwater for who knows now long. i think we're ready.
i think there is a danger of over engineering. the shuttle is over engineered i think. it flies so close to tolerances. the russians have just upgraded their gear. now we are backing away from the over engineered shuttle to where they have been for years.
spaceshipone is high tech where necessary and low tech when not. thats the model we need to follow i think. - gcnaddict, on 07/23/2008, -1/+2Moon dust isn't sand. Frying it will most likely only force it to break down into its principal parts... which could be handy since moon dust has a good amount of oxygen in it.
- G4LAXY, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Ship the water over from Mars?
- darkciti2, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1And some cheapass new ways to Kill Dr. Lucky.
- GlassAgate, on 07/23/2008, -0/+1Small steps. First, the Moon, and next, Mars.
- starmanjones, on 07/29/2008, -0/+1i agree. totally. i got that idea from a guy who was designing shelter/ homes for the third world. he would make a pile of coal/charcoal/... set it burning... bury it in sand and the sand would melt forming a round glass house. very cool. almost indestructible.
i just hate it when people complicate things. i could build something designed to fit in a certain crater. make it roll to the crater like a kids toy. a big round ball. move it with a motor and weight from the inside. roll in. inflate... seated in the crater and then have a robotic snow blower bury it. you could remote operate them from here.
the hardest part is getting to the moon. i don't think betting on a complete unknown is a good idea but i bet there are lava tubes that a kevlar and foam plug with an airlock built in it... could seal off lava tubes on both ends. spray the walls with some coating .... to seal the rock... it could release gas. its riskier. but i bet we could survey it and know what was needed.
i would risk my life on either of those schemes. they are dirt cheap compared to most things we've sent to the moon. it might fail. that just means try again. but the ones that fail could be made to work when we got people on site. dangerous and if you screw up you're dead but humans have demonstrated we can do it. i suspect the moon would be safer than mir. - bravo1995, on 07/26/2008, -0/+1I think the point Roger was trying to make was that the rocket itself doesn't go to the moon, its payload does.
- erpscooter, on 07/24/2008, -0/+1"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my moon base."
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