Posted on 08/07/2007 6:57:54 PM PDT by KevinDavis
It's been over 30 years since the last human beings ventured out of the relative safety of earth orbit and stood on another world.
On December 11, 1972 two out of the three member crew of Apollo 17 landed on the moon. While Ronald Evans remained in lunar orbit, watching over the spacecraft which would later return the trio to earth, Gene Cernan - officially the last man on the moon – and Harrison Schmitt, the only scientist (a geologist) to walk on the moon spent almost 72 hours on the surface, 22 of which were outside of their landing craft.
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He believes that NASA needs to invest more in the programs where astronomers track Near Earth Orbit Asteroids.
He presented a paper on a diversion plan where these collisions can be avoided.
Wait a minute!
Mars’ atmosphere is 95% carbon dioxide? How can it be cold there?
All we need to do is plant a billion evergreen trees to produce oxygen and the planet would be livable right?
I guess..
I read a book back in the 80’s that proposed something like that. Use all the Soviet SS-20’s to bombard Mars with fast growing algae IIRC.
http://www.amazon.com/Greening-Mars-Michael-Allaby-Lovelock/dp/0446329673
As Jose Jimenez once said: "Well, maybe if I land on a Saturday night."
On a program about the Moon landings, Schmitt and Cernan were having an amusing fake argument about who was the last one on the Moon. Schmitt said he was, because he was the last one out. Cernan said he was, because Schmitt got back in the LM first. :’)
Calling Orson Welles....
We could rocket the Congress there and warm the place up with hot air.
Nah, the Martian polar ice caps are already melting.
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