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Elon Musk On Why First Moon Landing Was An 'Anomaly'
benzinga.com ^ | 11/27/2022 | Shivdeep Dhaliwal

Posted on 11/29/2022 7:29:23 PM PST by bitt

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1 posted on 11/29/2022 7:29:23 PM PST by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

also see:

https://www.benzinga.com/news/22/08/28370222/elon-musk-says-area-51-not-so-secretive-heres-how-he-plans-to-greet-aliens

Elon Musk On Aliens Asks If Universe Is 13.8B Years Old, Shouldn’t They Be ‘Everywhere?’


2 posted on 11/29/2022 7:30:19 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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“I think we should build a city on the Moon and on Mars.”
= = =

And the roads will be full of electric cars.


3 posted on 11/29/2022 7:31:16 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: bitt

Because those were the best of times for America. I want those back.


4 posted on 11/29/2022 7:31:16 PM PST by MarMema (No bugs for consumption)
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To: bitt

Stanley Kubrick would disagree. 🀑


5 posted on 11/29/2022 7:33:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆ β–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆβ–ˆ.)
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To: bitt

No cheese on the Moon is a deal breaker...


6 posted on 11/29/2022 7:35:57 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Scrambler Bob

Screw the electric cars...I want my FLYING car!


7 posted on 11/29/2022 7:36:42 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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Musk agreed with the podcast hosts that it was β€œweird” that the U.S. had not returned to the Moon’s surface since 1972.

Why was it weird? It was expensive, dangerous and a dozen more visits wouldn't have pushed science, commerce or geopolitics forward much. Have we even yet fully exploited the samples we brought back?

Now that China is sniffing around the moon the geopolitical reasons look like they are coming back.

8 posted on 11/29/2022 7:37:41 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Soon the January 6 protesters will be held (without trial or bail) longer than Jefferson Davis was.)
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I am old enough to remember watching all of the Apollo missions on TV. It is hard to believe it has been 50 years since the last one. Even harder to believe that we did it using slide rules when the most powerful supercomputers in existence had less computational power than a smartphone.


9 posted on 11/29/2022 7:43:24 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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Landed on the moon - and took off to reunited with an orbiting spaceship - AND did it with a collection of computers that together weren’t half as powerful as an iphone.


10 posted on 11/29/2022 7:43:43 PM PST by GOPJ (Unsolved crime? Jump to the conclusion the killer is a LGBTQIA2S+ (Turn about's fair play.))
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To: Paladin2

Yeah, I found plenty of green cheese in the back of my fridge recently.


11 posted on 11/29/2022 7:43:52 PM PST by sevlex
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To: bitt
Don't Touch the Moon!
I need it for loving.
Don't touch the stars,
I need them, too.
All you frantic scientists,
Find something else to do!
12 posted on 11/29/2022 7:49:26 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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Is keeping people alive on the Moon easier or harder than keeping them alive in the ISS?

If we had a permanent base on the Moon, what would be its purpose? I could see manning a huge telescope or telescope array on the dark side of the moon would be great when it was facing away from the Sun.

If there is something to H3 for fusion, but is that really harvestable in reasonable amounts as in the movie "Moon"?

13 posted on 11/29/2022 7:54:27 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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To: KarlInOhio

It was “weird” because congress demanded the highest possible scientific and engineering standards, and expense was a distant tertiary consideration.

The reasons were geopolitical, yes, but JFK’s legacy was, I think, equally important.


14 posted on 11/29/2022 7:55:14 PM PST by jimtorr
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To: bitt

With billions of stars, nearly unlimited planets and endless time the likelihood of life is possible.
But our timing maybe off.Their civilization may have peaked and destroyed itself, others never really grasped technology and died off. Other’s still in their primitive stage.

Or maybe we’re all there is.
One can stare at the starry skies and twist oneself into knots.

I cannot conceive of if you go to the end of the universe, then what’s beyond the end? Infinity, as a concept is hard to wrap one’s mind around. As is different dimensions.
And God could be found in one of them.

Or not!


15 posted on 11/29/2022 7:55:36 PM PST by RedMonqey
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To: bitt

Is Helium 3 a legitimate opportunity from the Moon?


16 posted on 11/29/2022 7:56:36 PM PST by montag813
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To: Bubba_Leroy

I think along those same lines... the use of the slide rule never ceases to amaze.

I had my trusty Lutz out just a couple of weeks ago.


17 posted on 11/29/2022 8:03:11 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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They were using slide rules. They did not have computers on board. It was amazing. And they could have died a thousand different ways. It was truly amazing.


18 posted on 11/29/2022 8:04:50 PM PST by poinq
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AND did it with a collection of computers that together weren’t half as powerful as an iphone.

And that actually vastly overestimates the Apollo computers’ power. An iPhone is more powerful than a 1980s Cray supercomputer. The Apollo computers were no more powerful than a late-1970s programmable calculator.

19 posted on 11/29/2022 8:11:00 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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Why It Matters: Musk agreed with the podcast hosts that it was β€œweird” that the U.S. had not returned to the Moon’s surface since 1972.

Not weird, LBJ and the democrats crippled us funding the Great Society.

Supporting generations of negro welfare left no money for anything else.

20 posted on 11/29/2022 8:11:48 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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