Wyclef on 4/3/2006 at 01:20
Scientifically important unmanned projects like the Deep Space Climate Observatory have been killed in order to finance the Moondoggle.
Printer's Devil on 4/3/2006 at 01:31
Moondoggle? I like. I can see it splashed across the headlines of 2020.
BEAR on 4/3/2006 at 01:33
Thats going to rock, hard.
Jonesy on 4/3/2006 at 02:55
Quote Posted by Ulukai
Which means they need a reliable Saturn V class launch vehicle or better, billions of dollars worth of R&D and lots of luck. And probably, some risk assessment forms - because in this day and age we're close to needing to fill in a form to take a shit.
They've pretty much made that one by taking the shuttle tanks and splicing already made and tested components together. They are using the old J-2 engines from Apollo (upgraded) that were the key component of the Saturn Vs and the two boosters from the shuttles. So, in effect, they are just scavenging for spare parts that they have lying around that
might do the trick instead of actually bothering to design a whole new launch vehicle.
Gestalt on 5/3/2006 at 00:13
By the time it comes I will have a monopoly on sticks and rocks, and will rule all of you as king. I'd try to gain control of the world's poisonous frog reserves too, but all the frogs will be driven to extinction by climate change before they become strategically important.
Komag on 5/3/2006 at 02:22
What happened to that magnetic/solar/asteroid space elevator thingy? It was supposed to be ready by 2005 or something! :rolleyes:
But seriously, any major moon or mars base settlements will have to start with a very much cheaper way to get lots of material weight into space. The space elevator idea has potential to reduce costs per ton around 1/10, then eventually even 1/100.
The latest version of the idea I read about a while ago was a nano-carbon ribbon thing that would have a small asteriod strapped to the other end to keep it taut, then a machine would "crawl" up the ribbon carrying the load
Gingerbread Man on 5/3/2006 at 06:26
moon base lol
LOOK OUT FOR THE ALIENS GEORGE
Malygris on 5/3/2006 at 08:41
fucking aliens
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