Soviets Planned 'Invulnerable' Moon Base

NewsMax ^ | 9/20/04 | Carl Limbacher

[longtermmemmory]

(s)AHA! now we know why Bush wants to steal Iraq's oil. He wants Haliburton to build the moon base!(/s)

[Aquinasfan]

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. ;)

Scottie, beam me down to the planet of scantily clad, bikini-wearing, buxom women immediately!

[Mr. Mojo]

The Soviets "planned" a lot of things.

[longtermmemmory]

The short skirt on Star Trek were not sexist. They were the fashion of the 60's.

[Kornev]

We need to do the rest.

[DManA]

If you can dream-and not make dreams your master; - From IF by Kipling

The Russian people fell into this trap for 80 years.

[freedumb2003]

Jeeze, Barabra Bain, et. al. certainly took themselves seriesly! I can count on zero hands the number of times they even smiled.

In real life, humans fall back on humor, even gallows humor, to survive.

I would have spaced the lot of 'em.

[plushaye]

Yes, I remember, but not as military uniforms for women at that time or any other time.

[freedumb2003]

The short skirt on Star Trek were not sexist. They were the fashion of the 60's.

*sigh*

[JediForce]

I understand that former Presidential candidate Dennis Kasinich was going to be the commander of the moon base.

heh heh.

[al baby]

[plushaye]

There you go! I still like that series although I do wince at the catsuits and purple wigs. The women were all smart and technical types, and the commander of moonbase was a woman. It was ahead of its time in many ways by that.

[BradyLS]

Glad to be your second opinion!

[martin_fierro]

Awwwwwww yeeeeaaaaah. Tha's what I'm talkin' 'bout.

[BradyLS]

Which movie was first-- and more convincing? Heinlein's "Destination: Moon" or the Soviet "Road to the Stars?"

[al baby]

[Erasmus]

I understand that former Presidential candidate Dennis Kasinich was going to be the commander of the moon base.

Why would he wanna come all the way back from Mars just to be the commander of a stinkin' Moon base?

[Jonah Hex]

(SID)"Drool alert... drool alert... this is no drill."(/SID)

[al baby]

ck this out

http://ufoseries.com/movieClips/opening.mov

[BradyLS]

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

According to the book, Earth's gravity "well" is guarded by the gravity "curb" of the moon. If you can get that rock past the pull of the moon's gravity, then the Earth does all the remaining work in accelerating the rock to 11km/sec until it smacks her own surface.