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Back to the moon in 5 years,Is it worth it
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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" A Waste of money?Perhaps have a woman walking on moon.
What about sending Conswaler from Family guy, she'd tidy up!  "
Can't see it happening. No shoe shops on the moon. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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NASA...(Never A Straight Answer)...Is at it again...They said in the late 90s that the moon is,after all,actually in the earths atmosphere....So it follows that it's not as big or as far away as they initially told us.....it's all mind games. |
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"NASA...(Never A Straight Answer)...Is at it again...They said in the late 90s that the moon is,after all,actually in the earths atmosphere....So it follows that it's not as big or as far away as they initially told us.....it's all mind games."
No no ... this is a model moon, that moon is far away |
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Absolutely pointless , a waste of money , the same as mars missions .
With the amount of starving people in the world , all this space travel is a great example of how humanity is truly fucked . We happily spend billions on space missions that accomplish nothing , yet have millions of people here on earth with nothing , not even clean water . What a joke ! |
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By *ky19Man
over a year ago
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They keep saying this, in 10 years, another 10 years.
Surprised another country hasn't tried it in the meantime, seemed easy enough in the 1960's.
I was also wowed at how far the moon is away from the Earth. You tend to think of it as orbiting nearby, it doesn't look that far away. To put it in perspective, if 1cm = 1000miles the Earth would be about the size of a tennis ball. If it's on the floor, the moon would be about the size of a small round strawberry maybe, and it would be just in the ceiling of a room of normal height 
The orbit is massive! Also, most space missions, stations and stuff float about 2 maybe 3mm even approaching 4mm off the surface of the tennis ball. The only people said to have gone further so far are the apollo teams who have gone all the way into the ceiling and back!
Maybe it's more difficult than it looks... 
Has anyone said officially that not going was because of cost and been-there-done-that? |
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By *ky19Man
over a year ago
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"Absolutely pointless , a waste of money , the same as mars missions .
With the amount of starving people in the world , all this space travel is a great example of how humanity is truly fucked . We happily spend billions on space missions that accomplish nothing , yet have millions of people here on earth with nothing , not even clean water. What a joke !"
President Kennedy was heard to later lament a similar thing, expressing regret that the money could have given clean water to Africa permanently or something like that. But by that point they couldn't really back out now. He was a visionary more than a scientist, so thought by giving the mandate to "do these things, not because they are easy, but because they are HAAAARD" it was like the boys who tried to climb a wall but couldn't, so one threw the other's hat over - now he was forced to get it and make it happen.
I think the President gave the mandate way too early without really thinking it through. NASA really was a shambles at the time, as regularly confirmed by the original astronaut Gus Grissom. Werner von Braun also wrote a memo expressing the chances of getting people to the moon and back alive as 1 in 10000, as well as the astronauts having to immediately find a cave upon landing with a 50% chance every 24 hrs of a catastrophic suit failure due to micrometeorites.
With a couple of years to go Gus Grissom put a lemon on the module, called an improptu press conference and told everyone everything was crap, alerting an investigating official. Gus just wouldn't stop talking and ended up getting himself killed along with the other 2. His last words were "Guys, how are we supposed to go to the moon when we can't even talk between two buildings? FFS (paraphrase)"
The official then died with his family at a level crossing when "their car stalled and try as they may couldn't get out" as the train came.
Well NASA did sort themselves out quick cos Apollo 11 went without a hitch. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Absolutely pointless , a waste of money , the same as mars missions .
With the amount of starving people in the world , all this space travel is a great example of how humanity is truly fucked . We happily spend billions on space missions that accomplish nothing , yet have millions of people here on earth with nothing , not even clean water. What a joke !
President Kennedy was heard to later lament a similar thing, expressing regret that the money could have given clean water to Africa permanently or something like that. But by that point they couldn't really back out now. He was a visionary more than a scientist, so thought by giving the mandate to "do these things, not because they are easy, but because they are HAAAARD" it was like the boys who tried to climb a wall but couldn't, so one threw the other's hat over - now he was forced to get it and make it happen.
I think the President gave the mandate way too early without really thinking it through. NASA really was a shambles at the time, as regularly confirmed by the original astronaut Gus Grissom. Werner von Braun also wrote a memo expressing the chances of getting people to the moon and back alive as 1 in 10000, as well as the astronauts having to immediately find a cave upon landing with a 50% chance every 24 hrs of a catastrophic suit failure due to micrometeorites.
With a couple of years to go Gus Grissom put a lemon on the module, called an improptu press conference and told everyone everything was crap, alerting an investigating official. Gus just wouldn't stop talking and ended up getting himself killed along with the other 2. His last words were "Guys, how are we supposed to go to the moon when we can't even talk between two buildings? FFS (paraphrase)"
The official then died with his family at a level crossing when "their car stalled and try as they may couldn't get out" as the train came.
Well NASA did sort themselves out quick cos Apollo 11 went without a hitch."
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Our planet is in a very precarious position right now. Global warming, a forecast mass ectinction event of other species and many other substantial issues, including pollution, that's killing thousands each year, just in the UK.
If we are sending people long distances, for no great purpose other than just because we can, then it's largely a misue of our resources, as well as harmful to earth.
We have a tiny window of opportunity to restrain global warming to within 1.5 °C. Human priority should be on doing this, rather than something that will harm us even more. Blasting rockets off is also polluting, before they leave - their production is also resource depleting and has greenhouse gas implications.
We should be taking a look at substantially changing how we live our lives, harm the planet and its other inhabitants. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Space is never a waste of money.
The moon would be a great place to have a permanently manned base for experimenting with low gravity (useful for future space travel, including manned mars mission), improved communications capabilities, and if we end up blowing ourselves up at some point, the survivors can restart humanity from the moon  |
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By *ocbigMan
over a year ago
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"Our planet is in a very precarious position right now. Global warming, a forecast mass ectinction event of other species and many other substantial issues, including pollution, that's killing thousands each year, just in the UK.
If we are sending people long distances, for no great purpose other than just because we can, then it's largely a misue of our resources, as well as harmful to earth.
We have a tiny window of opportunity to restrain global warming to within 1.5 °C. Human priority should be on doing this, rather than something that will harm us even more. Blasting rockets off is also polluting, before they leave - their production is also resource depleting and has greenhouse gas implications.
We should be taking a look at substantially changing how we live our lives, harm the planet and its other inhabitants. "
Hear hear, so when are we going to stop breeding, it is an infestation of humans that is actually the issue here, not a few rockets popping to a nearby satellite world. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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It may be inaccurate to term it a return. There's a possibility no one has landed there yet, though personally I prefer to believe the heroic adventures of the lunar explorers. |
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By *ocbigMan
over a year ago
Birmingham |
"We stopped going as it was too costly, plus we got nothing out of going there."
so discounting the investment in computer tech that lead to the very thing you are using now, investment in rocket tech that lead to satellites, GPS, mobile phones etc that power modern life, apart from that what did the space programme do for us? |
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These werent from the moon the space program is not wholly a waste of money trips to the moon were stopped for financial reasons. To make a return financially viable we have to be planning to achieve a lot more than last time. Although as it is US planning it Trump/NASA pribably wanting to build a police station for Space Force. |
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By *ocbigMan
over a year ago
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"These werent from the moon the space program is not wholly a waste of money trips to the moon were stopped for financial reasons. To make a return financially viable we have to be planning to achieve a lot more than last time. Although as it is US planning it Trump/NASA pribably wanting to build a police station for Space Force."
....with SuperGalactic Emperor Trump in charge! |
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