NASA: Humans Back to the Moon

by Gerard 62 Replies latest social current

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  nicolaou

  I usually take a deep breath and bite my lip when I hear comments like these;

  It`s like a parent who has a sick child that needs medication. The parent, instead of buying the expensive meds, spends her money on a new XBox and video games, a big screen TV ... you know, toys, while the child sickens and dies.

  Imagine the things that the [m]oney could be spent on and how many lives could be improved here on earth?

  do it on private funding, not on the backs of the poor innocents.

  Irrespective of whether the space program is of any use or not does anyone believe that scrapping it would actually cause starving Africans to have more food, or for the sick and homeless to gain medicines and shelter? I don't. There is enough wealth and resources on this planet to feed, clothe, home and educate everyone, the reasons why this isn't happening are complex but I think it boils down to a simple lack of political will and plain human greed.

  Compare the cosmetics industry to NASA. Perhaps we should should scrap all cosmetics and use that industries wealth (greater than NASA's I would guess) for humanitarian purposes? It's not a logical argument is it?
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  freedom96

  I, for one, would love to see us go back to the moon. I wasn't aware of what was happening the first time around.
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  talesin

  The point of my illustration was that our priorities are all screwed up.

  AND YES, GET RID OF THE COSMETICS INDUSTRY --- I DON'T WEAR THEM ANYWAY.

  I won't apologize for caring more about people than I do about SPACE WEAPONRY --- those are MY priorities.

  If you choose to see this as an innocent 'science project' intended for the benefit of the human race, then fill your boots.

  SO GO AHEAD NIC, DON'T BITE YOUR TONGUE, TELL ME HOW YOU REALLY FEEL
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  avishai

  The technology we got from the space program during the moon shot paid for itself three times over.
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  nicolaou

  [I knew this one would bite me in the ass!]

  Look Talesin, I agree with your sentiments completely. Are humanity's priorities screwed up? Absoutely! Should billions more in aid and development be spent to feed and educate poorer nations/communities/individuals? Yes! Do I personally care more for people than any science project? Yes Talesin, of course I do!

  I deplore the insane amount of money being spent on the military. We all know that a fraction of that budget would feed famine struck nations for years! (Although in fact I was not defending military spending, I never do.)

  My point was that however the world chooses to spend/waste it's wealth, be it space exploration, beauty products, multi million dollar contracts for sports and entertainment 'stars', corporate religion, diamond studded pet accessories or yes, even guns, bombs and missiles - none of this is an excuse for not also doing what we should. We should feed the hungry. We should treat the ill. We should educate the ignorant and we should home the dispossessed.

  It is too easy to point the finger at Nasa or the military and blame them for diverting resources from unquestionably more important issues - people. My point was that resources are not the issue.
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  Pleasuredome

  The technology we got from the space program during the moon shot paid for itself three times over.

  i know, we've seen some great films since.
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  avengers

  Most of them are already living in outer space.

  Dang. Now I have to change my viewpoint again. (Pounces on own head). I thought they were living in Lalaland.
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  JH

  This is why man wants to go back to the moon.

  
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  Gerard

  Speaking of space travel, how many of you would like to have a REAL ticket for a space ride on the civilian Virgin Galactic Spaceship?. I would.

  www.virgingalacticquest.com
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  Qcmbr

  I'm still unconvinced we've actually been there. Call me sad, deluded, tremendously sexy whatever, I just have a few issues - let me list them for a giggle.
  
  1/ Where are all the funny shots? If I go somewhere worthy of pictures I spend a good deal of effort pillocking about. I want to see astronauts pointing at the earth, white suited michelin men gooning around - that's what I paid for (well you yanks did.)
  2/ When I get myself x-rayed I wear lead clothes - they were sitting in a full on nuclear blast that never varies in intensity. There nuts must have been deep fried.
  3/ When I wear blow up clothing I get quite hot. If I tried that sort of behaviour in the dessert I'd sweat to death. The moon receives lots more frying per bacon rasher than normal. No cooling system in the universe could stop that. Hmm maybe I'm revealing too much here.
  4/ Who took the film of the lunar module taking off - not only is it fairly ludicrous (no exhaust flame) but totally smooth and in shot. Anyway my math's crap but it seems a bit bizarre to need a rocket the size of Lichtenstein to take off in and yet on a moon with a 1/6 of the gravity you can take off with a couple of firecrackers and a trailing fart. Are they saying that if you'd revved up the lunar golf cart and made a small ramp they'd have taken off?
  5/ You spend billions to get to the moon and you take the cr*ppest movie camera you can buy from Walmart so your great moment is shot looking like its in a snowstorm. Next time you go there is an unimagineable improvement in camera work - oh yea we got the second camera from Sony, and we remembered to bring color film. Blehhh.
  6/ Currently we have a larger than hopeless ability to land objects , by parachute on the surface of Mars using all the advanced tricklery pokelry that is available now. In th elate 60's , in just a few years they put together a solid fuel rocket and got it point perfect onto the moon's surface - avoiding the potential for landing on powdered rock that could be meters deep, all in 'real' time - without any great hitch :P
  
  I'm waiting for the japanese satellite pictures