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Buzz Advocates Lagrange Point Spaceport

Posted by michael on from the shipping-and-receiving dept.

thrasymachus writes "Buzz Aldrin has an editorial in the New York Times (free reg req) advocating a spaceport at a Lagrange point between the Earth and the moon over simply more moon missions. He emphasizes the cost and practicality of such a station, as well its potential as a 'bridge to the heavens.'"

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  1. Maybe we should involve... by ooby · · Score: 5, Funny

    ZZ Top

    1. Re:Maybe we should involve... by pyros · · Score: 3, Funny

      but how how how would you do involve them?

  2. This still doesn't explain by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    ...why Buzz Aldrin gets so damn upset every time somebody mentions that the so-called "moon landing" might have been faked by the government.

    What is he hiding?

  3. Re:but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    apt-get install air water fuelstorage-tanks

    then a little later.

    apt-get update
    apt-get station-upgrade

  4. Re:Interesting by Valar · · Score: 3, Funny

    On the other hand, if we start building stuff on the moon we will probably get into a whole "territorial fight" with other countries and wind up killing ourselves because the weapons we used on the moon somehow changed its orbit. Thus allowing the earth to fall into natural disaster chaos.

    Have you considered writing for hollywood? I hear Bruce Willis is bored...

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  5. Rubbish.. by Channard · · Score: 4, Funny
    Here is a link the famous Buzz Aldrin "punch" video wherein he punches some moron who calls him a liar about having ever been to the moon. Posted for your enjoyment.

    That's clearly faked. The shadow cast by Buzz Aldrin's fist is all wrong.

  6. come on by Anonymous+Custard · · Score: 2, Funny

    What the heck does Buzz Aldrin know, anyway? He hasn't been in space for, like 30 years now! ;-P

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  7. Re:China, Russia and the Space Race by AmigaAvenger · · Score: 0, Funny
    I am sure there will be legal battles about who can claim ownership of the lagrange points similar to the legal battles of Antarctica
    SShhhhh.... No one tell SCO about this, they probably have claims to it already anyway! No government can own property in space, but that hasn't stopped private corporations from selling...

    Ryan

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  8. Re:China, Russia and the Space Race by Patrik_AKA_RedX · · Score: 5, Funny
    The US was the first to land men on the moon, therefore it belongs to the US. Why is that so complicated for the rest of the world to understand?
    Well, the Native American were the first people on your continent too. So we'll follow your example and let you build up a nice base and then we'll come and sell you some blankets with some neat virus as secret bonus.
  9. BUY NOW! LIMITED SPACE!!! by IWorkForMorons · · Score: 2, Funny

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  10. Re: Only if you land by DavidTC · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yeah, let's build a base in slingshot orbit around the moon. I'm sure that will work real well.

    RTFA.

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  11. Home on Lagrange by sshore · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh give me a locus
    Where the gravitons focus
    Where the three-body problem is solved
    Where the microwaves play
    Down at 3 degrees K
    And the cold virus never evolved

    Home, home on Lagrange,
    Where the space debris always collects,
    We possess, so it seems, two of Man's greatest dreams,
    Solar power and zero-gee sex.

    (to the tune of "Home on the range")

  12. Ain't never gonna happen... by rosbif · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine the scene in the White House..

    NASAGuy: Mr President, we'd like to set up a station at one of the Lagrangian points.
    Dubya: Lagrangian - sounds like one them cheese-eating surrender monkeys - that in France?
    NASAGuy: No, Mr President, its in space
    Dubya: Oh, wherebouts?
    NASAGuy: Well, sir, its at an imaginary point between the Earth and the Moon
    Dubya: So it ain't real?
    NASAGuy: No sir, its a stable point determined by the relative gravitational attraction of ......oh, the hell with this...it's in Irag..sir
    Dubya: Well why didn't ya say so - let's go