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Soviets Planned 'Invulnerable' Moon Base
NewsMax ^ | 9/20/04 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 09/20/2004 5:39:43 PM PDT by wagglebee

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To: wagglebee
Crews of four cosmonauts were to spend up to one year on the moon.

Wow, that's one heck of a military base. Four people would have barely been enough to maintain the font balls on their Selectrics.

21 posted on 09/20/2004 5:56:21 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Federal Creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it.)
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To: wagglebee
Details on the US Army's PROJECT HORIZON, a lunar outpost, can be found here.
22 posted on 09/20/2004 5:56:25 PM PDT by MattGarrett
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To: Kornev
We basically planted our flag on the moon, and own it.

That is only one of the three requiremnts.

23 posted on 09/20/2004 5:56:29 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: martin_fierro

Wow, vintage John Byrne. I wondered what he drew before "Iron Fist" at Marvel.


24 posted on 09/20/2004 5:56:53 PM PDT by NickRails
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To: plushaye
manned by beautiful but smart women in tight silver catsuits and purple wigs.

Ohh, no need to remind me.

A certain pubescent teen spent many tortured evenings thinking about those violet pageboy haircuts and silver catsuits. < |:)~

25 posted on 09/20/2004 5:57:56 PM PDT by martin_fierro (Fred Mertz is THE MAN.)
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To: horse_doc

The chinese are still out there.


26 posted on 09/20/2004 5:58:20 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! NOV 2, 2004 is VETERANS DAY! VOTE!)
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To: stevem

As the Russian planned their base, yes, it probably had little military value. But if you want to know what Robert Heinlein thought about how a base on the moon (and armed with a catapault for slinging rocks) could be used in a war against targets on Earth, I invite you to read "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress."


27 posted on 09/20/2004 6:01:33 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Kornev
Whoever really gets a base on the moon runs the planet.

UFO aliens Hehee...

28 posted on 09/20/2004 6:02:17 PM PDT by demlosers (The FreeRepublic Pajama Press!)
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To: martin_fierro

Those catsuits were as sexist as the short skirts on the original Star Trek series, but you're right, they did keep the male viewers happy. ;)


29 posted on 09/20/2004 6:04:55 PM PDT by plushaye (President Bush - Four more years! Thanks Swifties.)
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30 posted on 09/20/2004 6:05:38 PM PDT by meowmeow (We are all Buckhead!)
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To: spodefly

Wallace and Gromit got there first.


31 posted on 09/20/2004 6:06:03 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (<A HREF=http://www.michaelmoore.com>disingenuous filmmaker</A>)
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To: martin_fierro
"A certain pubescent teen spent many tortured evenings thinking about those violet pageboy haircuts and silver catsuits. < |:)~"

Is there any greater reason to return to the moon and make this dream happen!

Ad Astra (to the stars)

32 posted on 09/20/2004 6:07:04 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: demlosers
The Dark Side of the Moon
33 posted on 09/20/2004 6:07:06 PM PDT by traumer
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To: RightWingAtheist

I thought that robot was there first.


34 posted on 09/20/2004 6:07:38 PM PDT by NickRails
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To: meowmeow

I wonder if Reagan knew something about that....


35 posted on 09/20/2004 6:08:06 PM PDT by traumer
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To: wagglebee

http://www.astronautix.com/articles/roastars.htm


36 posted on 09/20/2004 6:09:30 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (<A HREF=http://www.michaelmoore.com>disingenuous filmmaker</A>)
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To: wagglebee
I use to work with an ex USAF guy in telcom network control..his background was satellite control in Colorado Spring... We got to talking late one Fri night grave shift about the moon missions and when I commented that it was sad we hadn't gone back his response was our you sure about that... bottom line he hinted around that there was some US miltary moon mission in the 80's to set up a earth monitoring post ...the moon being the ultimate military high ground to monitor earth from

probably just pulling my leg but food for thought

37 posted on 09/20/2004 6:11:03 PM PDT by tophat9000 ( “Old Yeller” Democrats is a Yellow Dog that has become Crazy & Rabid)
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To: NickRails

I know. I just couldn't resist making a reference to W & G. Come to think of it, they did meet a robot in that short.


38 posted on 09/20/2004 6:13:53 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (<A HREF=http://www.michaelmoore.com>disingenuous filmmaker</A>)
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To: Ford Fairlane; stevem
true, and good book.

Nothing like utilizing the earths gravity well to propel moon rock to a velocity of ummmm 5 miles a second?
Resulting in a thermonuclear event sans the lingering radiation.

There's just that pesky problem of catapulting those moon rocks over the gravity well...

39 posted on 09/20/2004 6:16:00 PM PDT by TeleStraightShooter (Sorry Kerry, you're 3 decimal places adrift: 3,000,000 not 3,000 "displaced"/murdered SE Asians)
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To: wagglebee
the Soviet project was "tens of times” more expensive than the Apollo project of the United States, which cost $34 billion.

They could have always starved a few million more peasants to finance this insane project.

40 posted on 09/20/2004 6:16:33 PM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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