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Worldwide Focus On Going To The Moon
MojoT writes "There's an interesting piece over at Space.com regarding the current renewed interest in returning to the Moon. Quoting: 'Earth's scuffed up and trampled Moon is once again targeted for high- tech visitors. Robotic spacecraft from several nations, as well as NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense, will be first to chalk up lunar return mileage.'"
Hell yeah. Just what we need.
A frickin' Moon Base!
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
Man always wondered if the moon was made out of cheese.
In 1969 man landed on the moon, and found out it was not cheese.
Since then, no one has returned.
Behold the power of cheese.
Are we now going back to double check our findings?
... This time when setting up the soundstage, add a little color, hell maybe even have them pixar guys whip up a couple of "aliens" ... because we all know that going to the moon and aliens are part of a governmental conspiracy ... And that the moon is just part of a "Death Star" with a giant "Laser" ... next you'll tell me there's plans to go to mars, I would argue that mars doesn't even exist!
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
Of course NASA wants to get a robot up there. It'll be on an important mission...
It's got to go stick a flag in the ground and stamp out some fake footprints.
Man1: I wonder if we're goin' to the first moon or the second moon.
Man2: WHAT second moon? You're drunk.
Man1: No, I read it on Slashdot. Slashdot says there's a second moon. There might even be a third.
Man2: (drags man1 out through the back door and points at the sky) What is that?
Man1: The moon.
Man2: Do ya see any other moons up there?
Man1: No.
Man2: But you're going to believe there are a bunch of other moons because some crackhead Web site told you so? (man1 looks perplexed, but doesn't say anything, so man2 grabs his drink and guzzles it) Come on, let's go to a nudie bar. There's lotsa moonin' there, but no more drinking for you!
(* So we may yet uncover that weird black monolith under the Moon's surface. I had assumed that NASA already discovered it, but chose to tell us the Moon was a boring, desolate place to divert our interest... *)
Monoliths *are* boring.
"Interesting" would be alien chicks with 6 breasts and an attraction to geeks.
Table-ized A.I.
Becuase, the tan you get on your vacation will never go away.
I can just imagine Barney's words on the training video.
"Okay kiddies, if you hear the 'Solar Flare Alarm', swallow the big yellow pill right away. That way you'll die quickly, instead of hours of fits of convulsions, and liquids oozing out of every orifice, before you finally snap your own spine. Have a wonderful trip!"
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
Without the Van Allen radiation belts...
Van Allen's radiation pants would fall down.
(Yeah, it's off topic, but it had to be said).
-- Terry
Congratulations! You have been chosen to be an explorer on NASA's maiden voyage to Jupiter. All expenses paid!
Then we stick them in a ship run by WindowsXP, DRM and Trusted Computing hardware ("It looks like you're trying to replicate a sandwich. Your replicator is secure. To unlock it, please register by calling..."). If they ever do reach Jupiter, they'll be flattened and we'll be free of spam. I really put way too much thought into this.