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Dreams of the Moon
Iron Sun writes "The Mars Institute has an interesting overview of past studies into sending people to the Moon, ranging from pre-Apollo plans by Werner von Braun to NASA studies just a few years old. Timely, given the continuing speculation as to whether the US is going to go back."
What the hell do those dorks at the Mars Institute know about the moon? Pfft. Our telescopes are bigger than theirs!
Love,
The Moon Institute
My late uncle, who I cannot name,
left me an inheritance of $50Bn
(yes, fifty billion USD) worth of
diamonds which are unfortunately
trapped in a space capsule on the
surface of the moon. I am seeking
investors who will help me recover
this capsule, and in return for
their investment I will be able to
reward them richly. A trusted
friend gave me your address and I
hope you will be discrete with my
message. The budget for a small
one-man expedition to the Lunar
Surface is approximately $30m, or
$18m if a Chinese rocket is used.
I am therefore inviting you to
join in this unique opportunity
with a guaranteed return of %1000
on your investment, which can be
as little as $1m. Yes, if you
will provide me with just one
million USD, I will on recovery
of the lunar diamonds, repay you
with TEN MILLION USD. We are
also selling one excursion trip
to the Moon, a round trip with
unlimited stopovers, for the low
low price of $12m.
Yours sincerely,
Abubakar_Ibrahim@yahoo.ng
Ceci n'est pas une signature
Nasa wants us all dead!
Nasa sent up monkeys. Are they all accounted for?
Nasa sent up robots. Where are they now?
"We can defeat the monkeys. We can defeat the robots.
BUT NOT AT THE SAME TIME!!!"
- Lewis Black
Can I accept it on behalf of someone else? I have a small list of people I'd like to volunteer ;)
All of which presently reside inside a Hollywood soundstage.
They were able to accomplish the entire trip over a single weekend, including building the rocket.
Of course, the best reason for going is the replentish our supply of Cheese!
In case you didn't see before, a previous Slashdot article on returning to the moon.
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
.. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
The capsule concept was oringinally abandoned because it received bad ratings. Apparantely, the cheap, dependable capsule model didn't look like a spaceship.
;-)
Spacelab wasn't a spaceship either. And it got ratings equivalent to DS9 when compared with the svelt swashbuckling Enterprise.
So a plan was hatched to create a vehicle that LOOKED like a spaceship and seeingly WAS a spaceship. It was a space-station that looked like a plane which was REALLY expensive to launch and retrieve. It was VERY complicated, thus astronauts could talk about it for indefinite amounts of time during interviews.
Of course, the public eventually bored of that as well and so has congress. So we're back to the cheapo, disposable, dependable flying washing machines. It only cost us $500 billion to reach the conclusion.
That seems to be a critical threshold in comprehension. After we spend $500 billion on Iraq, we may figure out that it's a waste of money as well
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So you mean we're really going to send people to sneak into the Beijing soundstage that the Chinese are gonna use and plant this stuff there?
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." -- Dark Helmet
Let me guess, you'd be willing to pay every dime you've got in cash since you know that the McDonald's at the Sea of Tranquility takes plastic?
Money for nothing, pix for free
Do we have to send them supplies? With budget cuts and all, of course.
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
Thanks!