NASA Bombs the Moon
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- TheBlueOne0
Oh god, yes the moon is full of fucking minerals. but if we put people there, from any government or corporation or part of any "vast conspiracy" you need water.
Jesus christ...
Furthermore, there still isn't an affordable launch solution that would pay for the costs involved of mining the moon. Hopefully the space elevator concept can get working. Also, space based solar energy is also a really interesting application of near space science that's within the relams of current engineering.
- who said "vast conspiracy"?zman
- poetic licenseTheBlueOne
- you're spinning the conversation for your self and its pointlesszman
- TheBlueOne0
GREAT COMMENTS:
"I'm no scientest so maybe it's just me. But by blasting the moon with such magnitude put the moon in danger of shifting orbit?"
"This NASA plan is more insane than PinkFloyd's Dark Side of the Moon album."
"Don't forget NASA is run by the military so one wonders what the real reason behind this operation is: Destroying alien bases? Or intimidating the Chinese or other players in the moon game so the US can claim exclusive ownership? "
"Yeah, what if a chunk of the moon breaks off and falls to Earth like it did in the The Time Machine movie that came out a few years back, based on H.G. Wells book. It would be a disaster."
"We do NOT know what impact this bombing will have on the Moon or on the Solar System for crying out loud!!! Let's just say that if... just if ... there are actually other civilizations out there on the Moon, inside the Moon, or on other planets in the solar system... let's just consider that it is a possibility even though we don't know... we may be literally causing a Star Wars kind of situation and what will we say... "we were looking for water so we bombed the Moon"
I live on a planet of stupid people. Please rescue me.
- Where to? The moon?Corvo2
- if there's water, sure.TheBlueOne
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- The Star Wars comment MADE ME SPIT MILK ALL OVER THE MOONdMullins
- zman0
http://video.google.com/videopla…
Moon For Sale, you should watch this to understand why there's another agenda for NASA. They're talking about starting to mine the moon by 2020.
- its all about helium dust not water because you can make water with helium dustzman
- Bullshit. There is no affrodable cost solution at this time, nor in ten years.TheBlueOne
- fucking helium dustzman
- energy and water from helium dust makes it viablezman
- helium dust?? haha! do you have any clue? helium 3 from solar wind would be used in fusion...which wont be online til 2050 at leastspifflink
- 2050 at leastspifflink
- watch the doc, i'm sure there's plenty of industrial opportunity in space. solar winds includedzman
- Corvo20
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" -
Uncle Freud.- yeah and sometimes its a big brown dick!" -George CarlinBattleAxe
- well playedjimbojones
- Corvo20
"...Let's just say that if... just if ... there are actually other civilizations out there on the Moon, inside the Moon,..."
AHAHAHAH.
- TheBlueOne0
Wow. The same people who are morons in the politics thread are morons in science threads. Amazing. I know correlation isn't causation, but still...
And why should mining the moon be "another agenda" for NASA? Fuck, I remember when I was a kid, cause I was a kid during the Apollo missions, cause I'm fucking old, they were talking about "mining the moon". That was a stated objective. Now it's some kind of "alternate agenda"? Seriously?
And again, the payload cost of moving things from earth to orbit to moon outweighs any money made in transporting raw minerals etc. back to earth. Until payload to orbit costs become commercially reasonable this is still off in the middle future - probably at least another 50 years out minimum.
- whatever watch the doc i posted and shut upzman
- I said "another agenda" anyway, they have several many of which or clearly not about water or researchzman
- i think mining the moon would be sweet. aseroids are more viable though once earth's gravity well is less of an issuespifflink
- of course they have other agendas? What's with your conspiratorial tone? Seriously?TheBlueOne
- you must feel threatened or somethingzman
- CArbon nAno tUbes doood!Mimio
- TheBlueOne0
I've seen the documentary..there is nothing "alternative agenda" about it, so I don't know why you phrased it that way in your post. Getting minerals, energy, etc. from space was always part of the stated objectives of near earth space exploration.
This discussion does not negate the real costs of earth to orbit which is still not economically viable. Yet. It's on the horizon, but not ten years out, unless you have a) a massive breakthrough in materials science and b) massive governmental funding to subsidize any industry that wants to take this on. A is possible, B in the current economic climate? Forget it, especially with the idiotic comments made on that site, indicitive of the average dumbfuck american.
Other possibilities for solving energy crisis on space tech, are the building of earth orbit solar collectors and beaming the energy back to earth. We have the science for that now. It's strictly an engineering problem, and a public issue about who wants the kilometer wide earth based collection station in their back yard.
That BBC documentary has lots of truth in it, but it hypes it up and shortens the timelines, and doesn't report on other technologies that are more viable, cheaper and near term.
I'm sorry, my cousin is a fucking NASA rocket scientist and we talk about this shit all the time.
- OK, he's not a rocket scientists, but a flight controller..but same shit..TheBlueOne
- I said watch the doc then shutup. Tell your cousin to shutup too.zman
- bliznutty0
its like sharks with frickin "laser" beams
- deadfinch0
we go from whining about verdana to whining about the moon. slow work day, maybe? or designers just love to whine...
- k0na_an0k0
wtf is wrong with you idiots! why the fuck would the usa be mining the moon for ANYTHING other than the delicious cheese that it's made out of.
wtf... WAKE UP PEOPLE. fat wisconsin slobs have undoubtedly infiltrated NASA and have devised a plan to mine the moon for all it's cheese, thus becoming THE world provider of cheese and eventually turning wisconsin it's their own country... BACKHAIRCHEESELAND.
- dbloc0
we go from wining about verdana to wining about the moon. slow work day, maybe? or designers just love wine...
- version30
remember when google maps of the moon zoomed into cheese? those were the days....
- PonyBoy0
fuck the moon
- GeorgesII0
why does the US just go around bombing everything,
I'm drunk and kinda stone right now and I'm sure this
- lobstarr0
Rumor has it the moon carries WMD's. Also spotted was Osama on the dark side of the moon.