[Libloather]

Slicin' it up like it's cheese. Moon warming?

[Gen.Blather]

There were various prices listed when I tried to determine the cost to lift a pound into orbit, but I settled on $1200. That’s low Earth orbit, so I’d imagine if you were going to the moon with that pound, it would be a bit more. And they’ve been lying to us with those models of the Earth they showed us in grade school with the moon right next to it. The moon is roughly 240,000 miles away. The Earth has a diameter of roughly 8,000 miles. The diameter of the Earth goes into that distance thirty times. That is one heck of a long way to ship that one pound. We’re going to have fabulous amounts of materials (in their raw and unusable state) on the moon but whatever we ship there to mine it, and everyone knows how light weight mining equipment is, has to go from low Earth orbit to high Earth orbit across the distance of the entire Earth thirty times and then LAND on the moon. You then start mining, refining, and fabricating...and then what? Ship it back and accidentally drop it on Seatle?

We haven’t even touched the stuff at the bottom of the Ocean. The only reason we don’t have all the cheap minerals we want right here is because various environmental groups have made it illegal to touch them. Are you saying it’s worth an unbelievable fortune to go to the moon to get stuff we could have here for relatively pennies because we can’t fight environmental crazies? Okay, got it.

[PIF]

The first Artemis mission is delayed until at least 2030. Map says the Artemis IV mission will happen in 2008. This must be a very old map. SpaceX's StarShip is only on its 4th launch (coming soon). It will be a struggle for StarShip to get to the Moon before the 2030s. Artemis depends on StarShip. As for StarShip putting 3 people on the Moon, it is so heavy (being made out of stainless steel) that it will take 200 refuelings to get there. Boeing had the original contract and despite the lower powered engines, it could have made the trip in a single shot, due to its very light composite construction. Sadly, a manager at NASA decided Boeing' plan to succeed needed some inside information. He was caught and Boeing's potential rocket was cancelled.

[Wuli]

We may blunder into things that will result in a form of “terraforming” the moon in ways that change it’s mass and in doing so change it’s orbit and the tidal effects it has on earth. I do not think we are smart enough yet for some of the “off world” things we are rushing into and rushing into mostly just to compete with each other.

[fella]

incredible
ĭn-krĕd′ə-bəl
adjective
So implausible as to elicit disbelief; unbelievable.

[BiteYourSelf]

The middle of this decade is one year away.🤨