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- Platinumwolf, on 04/20/2008, -0/+16I've done six months at sea on an aircraft carrier, if that's not similar I don't know what is, and it was hard, but do-able. Sign me up.
- inactive, on 04/20/2008, -0/+8Gravity is different.
Can't imagine weighing 20 pounds for 6 months then getting back to terra firma for a reality check.
Also they'll need to keep up their bone density.
I imagine a cure for osteoporosis will come of this. - sagien, on 04/20/2008, -0/+7The Moon Rules #1
- zephyear, on 04/20/2008, -0/+7uh it is a permanent base, it will be occupied ALWAYS, like the International Space Station.
it's a stepping stone for a colony, no astronaut is going to stay on the moon forever right now. - thirteenthcor, on 04/20/2008, -0/+7I'm glad it was ENVISIONED.... Now can we have an article on REALITY?
- DrivinWest, on 04/20/2008, -0/+7I'll say it to you again: NASA's budget was slashed in the 1970s and the political directive (beat the Soviets) dried up. NASA had the capability and will all along, just not the financial backing.
I'd also suggest you take a good long look at what you do for a living before you go knocking a bunch of ROCKET SCIENTISTS. Just sayin'. - earthforce1, on 04/20/2008, -0/+6A vision is all it will be if Obama is elected:
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2007/11/obama_wa ...
Now I don't have anybody I could strongly support - it seems every candidate has at least one major strike against them. - sagien, on 04/20/2008, -0/+5Won't know til we get there. Besides, the exploration of the universe is more of a mankind thing than an America thing.
If this is to be done, we'd have to get it done like how we are getting the ISS done. That's good for everyone involved.
Besides, the moon is full of cheese. Who doesn't want cheese? - EpicSelekta, on 04/20/2008, -1/+6Six month stay on the moon? Better bring some porn.
- inactive, on 04/20/2008, -0/+4It's really amaizng what NASA does with a 17 billion dollar budget (is that right?) They have a vast array of projects. The fact that NASA can make a moon base affordable. That is profound.
- DrivinWest, on 04/20/2008, -0/+3Ask the politicians in Washington who slashed NASA budget in the early 70s.
- inactive, on 04/20/2008, -0/+3Something tells me that "Islamists" (perhaps you mean Muslims?, or the Islamic faith?) don't really care too much about getting to mars or the moon. (Aside from any personal interests of individuals of course.)
Maybe you're thinking of the Commies? did you just come out of your fallout shelter? The cold war is over... - NoobSaibot, on 04/20/2008, -0/+3wait.......what?!
- inactive, on 04/20/2008, -0/+3A permanent moonbase could make future space missions *much* cheaper; mainly owing to the decreased gravity.
It would serve as a sort of "pit stop", being able to break the journey up into several smaller "resupply/prep" trips to the moon, and then a much easier final launch from there. - Spoomeister, on 04/20/2008, -0/+2If private enterprise were encouraged to take the lead here, instead of gov't agencies, we'd already have moonbases and missions to Mars by now. NASA has smart people and good intentions, but they take too long due to bureaucracy, politics and the need to be overly cautious and safe.
And, of course, insert obligatory joke here: "if someone had just told Bush there was oil on the moon, we would have invaded it 5 years ago". - inactive, on 04/20/2008, -1/+3Earth has more than one Moon?
- KaiUno, on 04/20/2008, -1/+2I'm sure it didn't feel all that pointless back then. But hey, you folks rather see your country go bankrupt over some stupid war. All up to you, of course.
- Blandyman, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1Wait, no American that I know actually wants this ***** war to continue. We're all getting shafted with taxes and oil and the recession that's leaving us all jobless and it';s a ***** travesty and I would love to see this stuff better spent on fixing our dollar's deficit or in the space program.
Check your words because it's our piece of ***** government that's wants us bankrupt because no matter how poor we get they'll always get their $400,000 a year check so they don't have to give a *****. The dollar can turn into the ***** rupee and they'll still be spending like it was nothing. - erkokite, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1Kid, shut the ***** up.
- TwwIX, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1They will blow it up an doom us all!
Haven't you seen the movie? - thirteenthcor, on 04/20/2008, -1/+2Vile, the only reason why we decided to go to the moon in the sixties was to show Russia how impossibly big the capitalist dick was. and they didn't even care! They were worrying about their satellite network more than anything. We have just been "told" that it was a "race". Even scientists and technicians are still human, and sadly still fallible, and driven by emotion. As it stands now, there is too big of a WHY? attached to the idea of space exploration to make it fundamentally possible. I only slightly agree with this attitude because of the various multitudes of life being discovered in the depths of the oceans might supply us with more current answers to life, and with a much cheaper budget. However, being a SF junkie..... I hope we get humans out past the belt in my lifetime.
- Ramble, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1Have they found TMA-1 yet?
- erkokite, on 04/20/2008, -1/+2NASA is bureaucratic sure, but there are plenty of private aerospace corporations that have been around for decades that haven't done so much as put a human in orbit. Human spaceflight is extremely expensive right now, and is a long term investment. For these reasons private industry is unlikely to do anything like this.
- annonimality, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1Actually the Soviets were too worried about exploring Venus: http://www.mentallandscape.com/V_Venus.htm
- Digitel, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1They put up a tent every time they go sort of like camping..
- JasonCox, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1So long as I can have the same Internet they have on the ISS, I'm game.
- inactive, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1The lag would be a bitch; but I bet they'd have some kicking bandwidth.
- inactive, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1I support the Mission to Mars instead. More benefit, less effort. We could even start right away.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_mission_to_Mar ... - o6uoq, on 04/20/2008, -1/+1Looks like spyware to me.. movie requests that you install a media codec .exe file - even tho it's ActiveX and all other activex applets of mine are working.
Reported. - annonimality, on 04/20/2008, -2/+2Go back to claiming 9/11 was a conspiracy and leave science to the scientists.
- Scheissen, on 04/20/2008, -1/+1lol ur too stupid
- andrewpmk, on 04/21/2008, -1/+1What a huge waste of money - second only to the war in Iraq.
- PigGeneral, on 04/21/2008, -0/+0Makes me more than a little sad that we went from first powered flight to first man on the moon in ~60 years, and 50 years later have nothing new to show for it.
- GPaXorg, on 04/20/2008, -2/+1C'mon NASA - one small step......
- directive0, on 04/20/2008, -2/+1Does it bug anyone else when everyone calls it "the Moon", like there's only one?
- DontGiveADamn, on 04/20/2008, -4/+16 months on the moon, is there really anything interesting to see or do there? Meanwhile America is going down the toilet.
- frositay, on 04/20/2008, -6/+16 Months on the moon? You mean six months in a studio set right?
- inactive, on 04/20/2008, -6/+1I thought the plan is to build a permanent base on the moon. But now it's becoming 6 months? I hope this is just a stepping stone for the permanent base.
- mergatroid, on 04/20/2008, -6/+1The Islamists won't know what hit them once Old Glory punctures the surface sphere of the planet Mars. One flag already on the MOon, and one on MArs, it will be like two kicks to their balls. The better diplomat will explain, of course, to the men of their generation that we really, honestly didn't mean it, to kick them there, and to kick them so hard, anyway. But maybe these future diplomats can then help them get up and join the rest of the world, throwing that Qu'ran of theirs in the toilet once and for all. Heh-heh, heh-heh ...
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