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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."
We might be going to the moon sometime within the next decade, but don't hold your breath. Thanks to the rising price of oil, we might not be able to afford enough petrol to get to the moon, and our more modern propulsion technologies aren't quite safe enough yet. Also the radiation belts are particularly strong because of the recent mass-ejections from the sun, so we have to redisgn the hull to allow for several inches of lead to protect the electronics. Believe me when I say space-grade ECC RAM is very expensive!
feeding starving children is so passe.
IF you rubbed your cock in cod liver oil it would probably smell like CmdrTaco's does after a long night of deep dickin' Fent. Just a thought
...when we never went there in the first place.
There's much much more to it than simply faking the moon walks.
First there is a matter of 4 Billion 1960's US dollars, of which only 4 to 10 Million was actually used. Where did the rest of this money go?
Another real problem the US has, the Russian always new, and the Chinese are about to find out, is that it is almost impossible to develop a suit which a man could use to "safely" walk on the moon.
The abundance of all kinds of unfriendly radiation, inluding extraordinary heat, exists outside the earth's protecting magnetic field requiring a suite to contain many protective layers, which would make it quite bulky.
What is well known from the MIR and International Space station it that the body slowly starts turning into slush the moment it is in a weightless environment, so even if they could get a man to the moon (1st hurdle), develope a adequately protective suite (2nd hurdle) they need to provide an artificial gravity on the body of the travellers to maintain bone and muscle density (3rd hurdle) so that they have enough strength to crawl, let alone walk on the moon even though the moon has eight times less a gravitational pull than the earth!
The Washington Times is NOT mainstream media. The Washington Times is a specious propaganda rag owned and operated by the esteemed Reverend Sun Myng Moon.
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It's not surprise that the moonies want to go the the moon. Maybe if we let them go, the whole cult will commit suicide there. From that perspective, it may be worth the investment
Next time you go to vote Republican, remember they are in league with the Moonies and the Washington Times. The man claims to be god and wants everyone to worship him. How hypocritical can an evangilist be????
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