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- ersatzphi, on 10/12/2007, -5/+87This is the stuff I want my tax dollars spent on. For the progress of man.
- ersatzphi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+56Cmon people I wasn't being sarcastic, I'm serious, this is awesome.
- AlanKc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51I agree.
And may I speak for all of us Space Geeks when I say:
IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME! - jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43At least this is something we can achieve... Stabilizing Iraq is the dream now..
- BeefBaron, on 10/12/2007, -12/+31Until the USA claims the moon as a new state...
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Agreed. This is just cool.
- dwang1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18no of course it's not for the oil, it's for their cheese Gromit!
- badave, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21No you nerds. Hamilton, our secretary of the treasury from 1789-1795. He would have loved spending money on things like these.
And of course, you forgot "the Great". He would have wanted to conquer the moon right after conquering the Persian empire. - Godel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Even better, a giant microwave gun mounted on the moon and controlled by the U.S. Nothing could possibly go wrong with that.
- hambend, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13As huge as this sounds now, one day it will have just been a baby-step towards something far, far greater.
It's crazy to think where this is heading. I wonder how much I'll get to see in my lifetime... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I don't think we plan on driving there.
- treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12My question is what about asteroids/meteors hitting the base on the moon?
We all know most of them burn up in Earth's atmosphere, but the moon has no atmosphere and there is lots of evidence of impacts. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12WE had planned to nuke the moon once...to show the world our power
Carl Sagan almost got busted as well for sharing some of his studies with other scientists.
http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/nuke_moon_000514.html
Probably would have looked cool, but definitely not a good idea. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I find your lack of vision disturbing.
- ikrit2006, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11The moon's soil is rich in Helium-3, the most ideal gas for nuclear fusion. If we're going to launch a mission to Mars, the moon would be a good refueling depot for a nuclear reactor... that way you can put just enough fuel to get you to the moon in the mission's craft at launch and refuel at the moon. Saves money and allows you to carry more cargo.
- tkcom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Funds (in trillions) will come from scrapped foreign invasion plans.
Only if that was said in 2001. - Abno, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10The moon base will be operational October 11, 2342. Mark your calendars.
- MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12"Remember, The Moon belongs to America"
- dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"What about getting there by Giant Lunar Moth?"
Im sure that will be a suicide mission. the thing will keep trying to fly into the sun. - abertoni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8 I will paraphrase the eternal words of Dave Chappelle:
"The United States of the Moon, bitches." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9"Could the richest of us be vacationing at the moon in 15+ years?"
how ..humanitarian. - TheWalkingDude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"The Moon belongs to America"
.. and anxiously awaits the arrival of our Astromen. Will you be among them?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzuP_NuuvCM - boiboi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Do you think tom cruise will visit the moon? he once said he used to travel the galaxies in the previous life defeating evil aliens. maybe the final showdown between Cruise and Xenu will happen on the moon.
- auxplage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Hawking will be happy.
- AlanKc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"The price of a round-trip ticket: $100 million."
http://www.wired.com/news/space/0,2697,68495,00.html - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7>>>"My question is what about asteroids/meteors hitting the base on the moon?"
Several solutions:
a) Build it underground. That would be more of a long term project though.
b) Use airlocks and don't much worry about it. Odds against a collision are minimal anyway, and airlocks would prevent you from losing parts of the base even if other parts were hit. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If you think the space program is a waste of money, you should refuse to use XM radio, cell phones, cable TV, and most electronic gear including computers. After all, they're the result of wasted money.
- dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"It takes 3 days to get to the moon."
if you think about it, 3 days is not a long time at all considering the weeks of hard traveling people would endure, just to get from the east coast to the west coast back in the 1800's.
imagine what we could do in another 200 years time. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Less ranting! More witty comments!
- Screwy1138, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'll pay more taxes for space exploration. The science is great for us, and the tax money goes to pay for more jobs for people educated in the sciences. Win-win. People forget too often the good things that come from the money NASA spends.
- drizek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It takes 3 days to get to the moon.
- johnjohnstonson, on 10/12/2007, -15/+20what? did someone tell you that they were building nukes on the moon? not satisfied with invading earth countries eh? so what you gonna do? go in there, torture all the moon people, steal their...er...moon oil, and install a puppet government?
you americans, you only want to go there so you can feel weightless. fat bastards. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Actually, it takes about half a day, if you travel by... dragonfly.
- ByteGuerilla, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I can't help but feel that we keep distracting our president with the war on Iraq, so he can't focus on the real issues - namely, the Moon... yes, I said it, the Moon.
- LouCypher, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@badave:
Alexander Hamilton
Yea I remember. He was the one who had been shot by VP Dick Cheney
errr... I mean... VP Aaron Burr - AlanKc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@PowerCow
"Often as with computers, the techs promise more than they can deliver for the time.."
Actually, even though some tech has failed in space, the ones we have gotten right have greatly exceeded our expectations. Just look at the Hubble Telescope, or the Voyager projects.. - CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I'll believe it when i see it.
They've been spouting off ideas like this for decades. Its always another 10-15 years away.
This is the invisible carrot people. Its kinda like a contract-to-hire position.
"Oh but if i only work hard enough I'll go perm!!"
and when 2030 rolls around they'll have a new excuse - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Nasa is also expected to ask other countries - and businesses - to help it build the base.
They also thought businesses would help build the space station and that never really panned out.
promised manufacturing in space and such. - leemac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Very exciting. We have to explore our universe as the Earth will not last forever. DUGG
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ azur, small steps you moron. you just dont ***** grow from 1yr to a 35 year old.
there are smaller steps you must take. and all of this takes time.
@ azur (yet again)
"3) It's much faster and cheaper assemble a spaceship in orbit around Earth than build a moon base, build factories on the moon, build a spaceport on the moon, then build the spaceship components on the moon, launch the components, and assemble the spaceship in orbit around the moon."
So i guess henry ford was pretty retarded creating the assembly line.
You are thinking in a "now" kind of sense. Think of this long term. Its not easier creating one ship at a time. Making factories and a sort of assembly line on the moon will be better for making ships in the long run. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How bout calling it "The Lunar Research and Abortion Center"
- CriX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3We have yet to get good numbers for Lunar mateorite flux but it's safe to say that this presents a real problem. Bases will probably be buried at least somewhat in regolith for meteorite and radiation protection.
I'm not sure if the ISS is more or less vulnerable. The ISS is in LEO where there is a lot of debris, but the Moon is a gravity well... so I'm not sure. - Kolar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Humans need to get the ***** off this rock PowerCow.
- Catchpen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Stephen Hawking just recently recommended we colonize somewhere other than the earth since humans will annihilate it sooner or later. Hey let's go whore out another planet!
- Walli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Has to be "Moon Base Alpha"...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3hongy = monumental waste of atoms
- Screwy1138, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Seriously though, the fastest way to get the US back to the moon is convince China to go there. Or Iran. *chuckle*
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5For anyone against it...do some research on how a permanent lunar base can be used to provide more than enough renewable (solar) energy for the entire planet much more efficiently than on earth. And the main materials needed are alreay there.
- 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3We don't need to go to the moon for Helium-3 it exists here on earth and is actually cheaper to mine and process here.
We need to go to the moon for rare zeolites and salts!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeolites
There might be three times as many types of zeolites on the moon(with less gravity) than on the earth.
Zeolites are used everywhere, from making gasoline from crude - to water purification.
There's also a gas/liquid we might mine called Silane.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silane
That could be used instead of hydrogen to power rockets... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Hey, that's on my birthday!
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