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- Satanael, on 10/12/2007, -0/+39When your roommate farts, no one will hear you scream...
- Billiam627, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29Bigger than my dorm room...
- CBTF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27That's part of the job.
- Dotcommer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Remember those pod ships from Dragon Ball Z? Thats kind of what this reminds me of. Man... I just had a flashback... did you guys get one too? Watchin' DBZ on toonami on cartoon network and watching that ***** planet take like... 17 episodes to explode even though it was supposed to explode techincally in like.. 5 minutes or something? Hahahha...
I like to babble.... forgive me. - RogerStrong, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Conspiracy theories - By morons, for morons.
For all the so-called "evidence" they put forth, they have yet to show anything that can be easily disproven. - cuoops, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16bigger images
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/170068main_influnarhab01-1024.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/170070main_influnarhab02-1024.jpg
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/170072main_influnarhab03-1024.jpg
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http://mfile.akamai.com/20356/mov/etouchsyst2.download.akamai.com/18355/qt.nasa-global/ccvideos/larc/influnarhab_cap.mov - crgnetworks, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18We did land on on the moon, you ***** retard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqlo_spATEM - NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Lame, they didnt show pictures of the swimming pool.
- chuck667, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Appart from the fact that it looks like the padded cell of a loony bin.
- anidal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14but thousands of times closer in terms of fuel costs.
- Fhionnlaoch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I believe they already have ways of preventing muscle atrophy (due to being in low/zero g situations),by keeping the muscles exercised, but they still have to rotate crews because of this. But OTOH, since being on the moon has more gravity than being in orbit, you'd probably be able to have crews up there longer than on the ISS.
The boredom that is involved can be easily solved by including a holodeck on the moonbase. - anidal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6And you definitely can't beat the view
- Chairboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Before all the folks start talking about meteors popping it like a balloon and whatnot, the inflatable structures can handle impacts really well, sometimes better than the solid structures being used on the ISS today.
- Brickster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+760's tech works. Why spend money on new designs if the Apollo missions worked just fine?
- judgeFire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"My plan for a Utopia on the dark side of the moon is coming together..."
Uhh, I think your next milestone would then be locating this 'dark side of the moon' - good luck ;) - fredxor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+460 tech sucked. For instance, the Apollos needed the whole damn mainframe to be one to use any of the systems. This was a problem when Apollo 13 did not have enough power to run the mainframe properly. It was a miracle that any of the missions ever made it to the moon. Also, all of the 60s tech has been scrapped by now. It would cost just as much to dig up the plans for the 60s tech and rebuild everything then to just redesign newer, safer, and cheaper vehicles.
The Van Allen belts aren't actually that worrying because on the way to and from the moon, the astronauts do not spend that much time in the belts. They won't get enough radiation to cause cancer. - anidal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4we'll just have our astronauts wear tinfoil hats.
- Wireddd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I would live in it
- PaulLev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm glad to see this. Any focus on the Moon is better than the decades of inattention we've been giving it. http://www.paullevinson.net/archives/last_calls_for_space.phtml
- rvroman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3dirt is good at stopping low level radiation that hits the moon. they should just bury those things in bunkers
- Jvskill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's not much better than the ISS :-/
do they really expect people to live in such situations from 1 to over 6 months at a time??? - agrabob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@cbtf: exactly, its not a party
They look this way for purely practical reasons. A spherical shape gives you the most rigidity and internal volume per building material mass. I didnt see the exact dimensions, but it looks signifigantly bigger than many of the areas in the ISS. - vikingcoder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@gangstawhiteboy
Anybody can prove that we landed on the moon. They left a laser ranging retroreflector; those are big words for "a mirror".
That is how we know the distance from the Earth to the Moon to a precision of 3 cm (~1 inch).
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/21jul_llr.htm
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/expmoon/Apollo14/A14_Experiments_LRRR.html - Phatt138, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"As a start to its long-term program to return to the moon, NASA is testing a two-room building that could eventually serve as a base for workers and explorers."
"Explorers"? Of what? Send the mo'fckers to Mars.
Hell, I'd go. Not that they'd ever have me. Which is silly, because whatever my faults, I definitely DO NOT manifest my emotions by driving across state lines in geriatric diapers. It's a personal rule of mine. - crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3blast it into space, or toss it into a crator
- RogerStrong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3In the short term you use very little shielding. Heavier shielding can make things worse: Cosmic rays that would normally pass right through you instead hit the shielding, and throw off more harmful particles. You'd still take shelter during a solar storm though - say, in a closet lined with your food and water supplies. Astronauts in the ISS already weather these storms.
In the long term, you cover a permanent lunar base with a foot or two of lunar dirt. This provides all the shelter you need from cosmic rays and solar storms. - topace3000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You're right. I believed all the insane propaganda until just now, thanks to your incredibly enlightening words.
Thx 4 the insite yo! - 1337Einstein, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Anidal
Not really. Maintaining a colony on the Moon would be extremely expensive at this point in time, And it would be unlikely to see any monetary returns on such a project. - theboozer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Good words.
- mahdaeng, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3how about they do both?
- SultanTravi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm not sure how it's going to prevent astronauts from getting cancer from all the radiation.
Unless, of course, they take that handy modular structure and line the walls with thick layers of lead. - sherrife, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's pretty exciting ***** ey... great to be alive when some new space exploration is going on.
We've had to be content with reading about the 60's and 70's for far too long! - 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The moon doesn't have a magnetic field - like the Earth to shield us.
But there are areas on the moon with smaller magnetic fields - perhaps they will help in addition to shielding? - anidal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2wheres the toilet?
and i wonder how they'll deal with solid waste. - RogerStrong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Keep going - you almost have all the wingnut conspiracy theories tied together. You only need to incorporate the Vatican ninja hit squad that took out Princess Diana, Kurt Kobain, and Colonel Sanders before they could prevent global warming by destroying the world's supertanker fleet using trained attack clams.
I'm not sure where the Pillsbury Doughboy fits in, though. Looks like some kind of Mini-Me thing with Dick Cheney. - knowicki, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What about a meteorite, say maybe the size of a BB, popping it from the inside?
- sjbdallas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3maybe they should bury those then?
I'd like to think NASA realizes there's a radiation danger out there but I also thought they'd realize that rubber o-rings might freeze, or that blocks of ice + foam tile = disaster. - blastus7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3A gangsta that rides the short bus...amusing.
- LonesomeFighter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2it's a start. eventually they can get multiple and connect them. like those hamster rat cage things where they get connected with tunnel tubes and there multiple rooms. I don't know the official name.
- kaelyiesta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2there are some sources of energy on the moons surface namely helium 3, all you have to do is cook the dirt to extract the gas. While it may be a loss of net energy to transport the mined energy from the moon to earth, it would be very useful to just use that energy harvested from the moon on the moon itself. That's not even including the reduced gravity facilitating launches to other places. So, energy wise, we wouldn't be losing much, and more likely we would be decreasing energy expenditures after everything is set up.
- miles01110, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"stepping stone to Mars."
Some stepping stone. Mars is only about 400 times farther away at it's closest. - 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They say that moon dust smells like burnt gunpowder and makes you sneeze a lot.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/30jan_smellofmoondust.htm
"The experience gave Apollo 17 astronaut Jack Schmitt history's first recorded case of extraterrestrial hay fever. "It's come on pretty fast," he radioed Houston with a congested voice. Years later he recalls, "When I took my helmet off after the first EVA, I had a significant reaction to the dust. My turbinates (cartilage plates in the walls of the nasal chambers) became swollen."" - aggrazel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yes but might I suggest a slight revision: do not build a straight on exaust pipe to a single point of failure.
- MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it looks like some sort of gold ball hut.
- chuck667, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2yeah, but what about stopping cosmic radiation? do they have the ol' Aluminum foil protection?
- HotMovies, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They're gonna line these things up in rows by the thousand. The moon is gonna look like a cookie cutter suburb.
- agrabob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nah, holodeck parts weigh too much. They will just market low grav sex to the rich and famous then tons of $$ will pour into the project.
- RogerStrong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In the beginning it likely just stays in the tank; the module itself will have a limited life. Later, waste can be used for fertilizer in a greenhouse.
- sjbdallas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I'll bet there are man-made deathstar-like plans on someone's computer at NASA right now.
- 3tcp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Inflatable? Sounds like a formula for a 'gun standoff in a setting where gun use will kill everyone' scene in an action movie.
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