"To the moon, Alice!"
Posted on 03/10/2005 12:18:15 PM PST by ambrose
isn't this off of some old "Honeymooners" episode?
"NASA rushes..."
A possibly chilling turn of phrase.
"To the moon, Alice!"
Yes. Absolutely wordsmithed, this article is a hack job.
Certainly a historically unusual one.
I think the hubble was at best a partial success. If any private parties want to spring for the refueling and support bill, I have yet to hear from it.
Besides, we got a great picture of all the places we won't be able to go for the next hundred years. How many more pictures of that do we want.
Can we send Hitlery to the moon? I`m getting sick of reading her 180 degree about face politics everyday solely so she can run for President.
The article mainly consists of bitching from people who are seeing their little pet projects cut in favor of this far more worthy endeavor.
"We have to protect Mars. Do we want to send astronauts with all their dead skin cells and bacteria? We don't want to contaminate the planet and replace possible extant life."
I suspect he is the world's expert on the way mars is now and doesnt want to go back to school to how it will be in 20 years.
Rather I think we should first terraform Mars. The atmosphere can easily now be turned to Methane which when frozen is a decent rocket fuel. The large gas planets also have a lot of methane and H2.
Bush sure cooks up a lot of ways to spend taxpayer money, doesn't he?
It's raining gravy out there. Let's go. Start with an Antarctica-like base at the Lunar south pole!
Sunshine, water and mining riches...
I always wondered if the name of that sitcom was because they were newlyweds (they didn`t have any kids) or because they drove each other so crazy, they wanted each other to go to the moon... I think it was the latter. Ralph and Alice didn`t seem like newlyweds. "Honey go to the moon"
In the late-14th and early-15th Century the most advanced seafaring nation on Earth was China. In 1424, the Emperor outlawed seafaring and henceforth, the exploration of the world was done mostly by the European nations. China became isolationist and its culture didn't advance. Who knows what would have happened in world events if China had not undertaken this policy.
Let's not make the same mistake the Emperor made in 1424... the US is the most advanced spacefaring nation on Earth - let's keep it that way.
Don't you think having her on the moon would detract from its
'ROMANTIC QUALITY" for all those conservative couples
out there ?????????
but this one is soooo good. we need to explore and colonize other worlds. we have an obligation to preserve the human species should Earth ever go bye bye.
gotta strive for something besides food, sex, and Oprah reruns...
How do you propose to start Terraforming ? Most concepts I see need a decent industrial base well beyond Earth Orbit, and most likely, around Saturn, or out in the Inner Cometary Belt, to gather ice, and hard-land large quantities of it on Mars to build up atmospheric volume AND a resevoir of greenhouse gases. Plus, of course, the heat generated by the impact. . .
Venus is by far the more interesting Terraforming prospect: I leave the relatively trivial problem of decreasing the current solar flux on Venus to you as an intellectual exercise (evil grin)
At least Space Exploration has paid back its' investment ten-fold and more. . . few other Government programs have paid off at all, much less as handsomely. . .
We don't want to contaminate the planet and replace possible extant life."
We don't?
I'll bet nutgrass could live there, maybe kudzu too.
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