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- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11"Yea. Like robot slaves."
And Black Jack. And Hookers.
You know what, forget the robot slaves and black jack.
/Bender. - wabbiteh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Except that wouldn't work, because ash isn't moondust.
- vbsurfer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5nah...that's what science usually does these days.
Science damnit - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is useful, RTFA.
Earthlings want to strip it down to oxygen and other elements for "in situ resource utilization," or ISRU, the process of living off the land when NASA returns to the Moon in the not-so-distant future. - LordSkywalker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3We're whalers on the moon,
We carry a harpoon,
But there ain't no whales,
So we tell our tall tale,
And sing our whaling tune! - vbsurfer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3dammit.
- tmcpheeters, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Great Moon Hoax
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23feb_2.htm - listrophy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@leobaby
I dunno, but it'd sure be expensive. You can order your own (fairly expensive) simulant at: http://www.planet-llc.com/order.htm - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Lets seeeeee...
Feed children or make moon dust...
Feed children or make moon dust...
Where should the funding go??? - adaptdev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If they need moon dust they should go to the moon. We did it before right?
What a huge waste of time and energy.
NASA is truly worthless. They haven't done anything useful since it's inception.
/BS - 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ignignnock and Ur will ceratinly want their cut in this endeavor...
Because they are from the Moon...
And they're doing it as hard as they possibly can... - Santabot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Don't they have stuff left over from 1969?
- Drivas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There was an article in the New Scientist about this a couple of years ago, I think.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3yeah....exactly my thought....why can't they use the same stuff they used to fake the last manned lunar landing.
Or maybe they had to destroy the evidence. - Soldan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I doubt there is really that much difference between one type of pulverized rock and another... just find the toughest enviroment to traverse here and go from there... to get anyone on board...there really need to be value in landing on mars or the moon... in real dollars... maybe a telescope i suppose...
now a moon hotel might be a good idea...
The Current NASA offerings have been less than stellar...
just being a realist.... I would love for NASA to have funding...I am all for a manned Mars mission for one...we need to get a habitat working first - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No. In fact microscope images of the scoring of micrometeorites INSIDE space helmets have been taken!
Or it might be cosmic rays or something! Either way I wouldn't want my brain constantly perforated by the damn things!! - leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8So how many tons does it take to fill a sound stage?
- BryanJK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0By the way, I'm not meaning to be an *****, I was just saying that this and NASA are amazing, even if they do something a little strange...
- Tivor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I mis-read the guy's name as "Lind L. Tailor".... >_>
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why would NASA need to post an article debunking claims that the moon mission was a hoax if it wasn't a hoax?
- cheztir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1you know i didnt read your comment just yet, but your name Kranklin seems to make me think of some type of sex toy... so that has to be valid to your comment.
- vbsurfer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2It always make sense to write an opinion about the article before reading it.
- Vicille, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Yea. Like robot slaves.
- crgnetworks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Micrometeorites, many smaller than a pencil point, constantly rain onto the surface at up to 100,000 km/hr (about 62,000 mph), chipping off materials or forming microscopic impact craters. Some melt the soil and vaporize and re-condense as glassy coats on other specks of dust. Impacts weld debris into "agglutinates." Complicated interactions with the solar wind convert iron in the soil into myriads of "nano-phase" metallic iron grains just a few nanometers wide.
Was there something in the astronauts suits to protect them from this? - BryanJK, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Wow... that's interesting, plus I never knew that "moon dust" was even made out of that stuff "wielded" together... that's kind of amazing... but substitution isn't always the best idea...
- Narwaffle, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Cool. Pretty nifty what scientists can do these days, isn't it? Digg'd
- Narwaffle, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1@ geminitojanus
I'll build my own Lunar Lander. With blackjack! And hookers! Aw screw the whole thing. - DRTED, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Moondust aka crack cocaine
- Soldan, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1damn just goto St Helens and get some ash....cheap..
- ucbmckee, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5And here I too was thinking, why don't they just get the surplus supply from the stageset of the 69 landing? =)
- Kranklin, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2I haven't read the article (yet), but it sounds to me that nothing good can come from eating the moon... Exactly how many slices do they need?
- JonnyTrombone, on 10/12/2007, -14/+6So NOW they're building a fake moon... riiiiiight.
- Zidul, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3shouldnt nasa be working on, you know, more useful things?
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