Buzz Aldrin Dreams of Mars

Foxnews ^ | 10/19/10 | Jeremy A. Kaplan

[KevinDavis]

Picture a sign post next to a remote building: Last gas for the next 50 million miles. A second sign sits beneath it, clarifying the location: Next stop, Mars.

Last week, President Obama signed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010, which charts the space agency's trajectory and will shape the nation’s science, aerospace and information technology development for decades to come. And the moon is not a key factor in the plan.

[KevinDavis]

Kevin Davis: Dream of Alpha Centauri..

[KevinDavis]

[Roscoe Karns]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUI36tPKDg4

[Brilliant]

I love Buzz Aldrin. However, on this I think he’s misguided. We aren’t going to Mars in his lifetime, in my lifetime, in my kid’s lifetime, or in his unborn kids’ lifetime. The logistical difficulties and expense of going to Mars are astronomically high. We would be much wiser to spend our Space dollars developing the moon. Do it with robots to keep the expense and the risk down, as well as to give a boost to the robotics industry. Don’t waste it on Mars.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Barney Frank Dreams of Uranus.

[Monkey Face]

Let’s do the moon first. So, OK...Osama has given the OK for the dollar amount. Let’s not squander it...the moon is green...like money. Why overlook it?

[Monkey Face]

Barney Frank the epitome of Uranus. I suspect he invented it.

[jnsun]

We would be much wiser to spend our Space dollars developing the moon.

It seems to me also that is the most logical next step into the space environment. The moon has gravity for structural orientation, it apparently does have some water, which means it has a potential source of energy (Hydrogen), it would be a wonderful astronomical platform, and because of the low gravity is a great launch platform for further exploration provided energy is available.

I've always thought we should be crawling and exploring all over the Moon by now. And building for further ventures. Something happened. We lost our imagination. We became women, consumed by our material and domestic desires, and our guilt, rather than our curiosity. A George Soros/Barbara Boxer/Dark Ages kind of thing.

The Media and the Left methinks.

Johnny Suntrade

[SunkenCiv]

Kevin Davis: Dream of Alpha Centauri

That would be a great title for your memoirs, btw. : ')

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[Rooivalk]

"We lost our imagination. We became women, consumed by our material and domestic desires, and our guilt, rather than our curiosity."

So true,so true

[archivist007]

I don’t think we will ever land a man on Mars within four generations. Maybe not even go back to the moon if at all.

The reason:

We have no money.

[PIF]

I’ve always thought we should be crawling and exploring all over the Moon by now. And building for further ventures. Something happened.

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OR we found something(s) which scared the holy hell out of everyone concerned... as numerous lunar images might lead one to believe.

[dfwgator]

OR we found something(s) which scared the holy hell out of everyone concerned... as numerous lunar images might lead one to believe.

OR they just realized that there just wasn't very much there.

[PIF]

Besides the huge deposit of water, there is a very odd assortment of metals and minerals... not to mention the image fakery (1960s style) out of NASA from the outset... (razor cuts in images, missing but cataloged images, different photos of same scene taken in sequence show different things, smudged spots in otherwise clear photos, etc.).

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2612660/posts