Posted on 07/24/2015 5:25:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
All of that is very sound and doable but where is it in the Koran? For it to be done, doesn’t it have to involve muslim outreach?
In all seriousness though, very sensible. I couldn’t resist the current focus of Nasa humor.
I hope moonbase personnel will have a better fashion sense and not contract out furnishings to IKEA.
Build the Eagles, buggies, and U shaped blasters by all means.
Yup.
The study that never ends, and never flies.
"Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plant life. Animals could be bred and slaughtered. I would guess... that ah, dwelling space for several hundred thousands of our people could easily be provided. A computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross section of necessary skills."
We have learned a lot about the formation of the solar system, the earth and the moon from the moon rocks we have already gathered. More missions will compound that knowledge. More missions and, hopefully a permanent base will only compound that knowledge and benefit our view of early earth. It’s clearly a step forward.
Getting to the moon has always been pretty cheap.
It's getting back alive that is expensive.
Sounds like shades of Project Orion!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxMKwxO0oU0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYoLcJuBtOw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1vKMTYa40A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons
“The Marching Morons” is a science fiction story written by Cyril M. Kornbluth, originally published in Galaxy in April 1951. It was included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two after being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965.
The story is set hundreds of years in the future: the date is 7-B-936. John Barlow, a man from the past put into suspended animation by a freak accident involving a dental drill and anesthesia, is revived in this future. The world seems mad to Barlow until Tinny-Peete explains the Problem of Population: due to a combination of intelligent people not having children and excessive breeding by less intelligent people (see Fertility and intelligence), the world is full of morons, with the exception of an elite few who work slavishly to keep order. Barlow, who was a shrewd real estate con man in his day, has a solution to sell to the elite, in exchange for being made World Dictator.
I think it’s relevant to today, based on the two time election of Obama for starters.....
Nucular powered robots? That nucular part sounds dangerous. Don’t want it blowing up in the sky. We’ll pass. Next idea?
Of course it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition.
It was published in Galaxy only a couple weeks after I was born...
Not sure if that means anything...lol
enter the spelling police...:-)
Nuclear
You certainly get to see art imitate life!
Yes.....unfortunately so..
Especially the fiction becoming reality.
It’s just part of the Muslim outreach approach: just take the train.
phrasing! /archer
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