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Going Back to the Moon and Mars
An anonymous reader writes "An interesting three-part interview with author Dr. Andrew Chaikin discusses whether humans or machines could best explore the moon or Mars and even whether a crew could get along with each other for three years on an extended mission. His Mars planning draws on Apollo mission transcripts, and he cites mishaps with the Apollo 15 lunar rover almost sliding catastrophically down a mountain, an astronaut argument as to who took the most famous earthrise picture and what after 14 months in space, the Russian record-holder uses to recover his land legs: 'One vodka, one sauna'."
We're stayin we're goin' make up your mind... I vote we all stay and die.
Why do I do this? Because the money's good, the scenery changes, and they let me use explosives, okay?
You make it a REALITY SERIES.
"Three astronauts, picked to live in a spaceship and have their mission taped to find out what happens when people take a trip to Mars and start being real. The Real Mars."
If it takes 3 years, great! Imagine the ratings for each episode as they get closer to Mars, and the ratings for the finale? WOW!
ABC/Disney needs something big to combat Survivor and the Apprentice. I believe this is it.
It seems we could solve two problems here. Since food for a bunch of astronauts is a problem on a three year mission, basically include enough for all but one, and at some point in the mission plan on the majority voting for one fellow astronaut who gets eaten, solving food problems and getting rid of the most annoying astronaut in one fell swoop! Film it for transmission back to earth and you could get TV funding too.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
mishaps with the Apollo 15 lunar rover almost sliding catastrophically down a mountain
That's okay. I saw an AAA bumper sticker in one closeup.
Table-ized A.I.
ventually we'll need more room and more resources.....If something ever happens to this rock we're on, human kind is finished. If we can get off this rock and spread mankind throughout the universe, so much the better for us.
Our destiny is to be a pernicious space virus, known as "humans".
Table-ized A.I.
Only far-fringe lunatics care if you use nuclear bombs in space
We've done enough damage here on earth. I don't think it would be right to fill space with the radiative effects of nuclear reactions.
KFG
Down modding? I say publish the trolls name and address here.
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space."
--Douglas Noel Adams
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
We better find a way to extinguish that damn sun then.
You are the dumbest sack of shit ever to draw oxygen. Space is already FILLED with radiation, you stupid, ignorant prick. You are the prime example of the original poster's description of far-fringe lunatic. Learn some godamned science, you brain fucked pile of dog shit. Die. Die. Die. Diiiiieeeeeee!
Or am I just being paranoid?
Yes. I'd recommend a higher quality tinfoil in your hat, or double layer it.
I remember reading that at the Chernobyl accident, the doctors gave the reactor workers vodka for its "anti-radiation" properties.
If the cosmonaut's quote is any indication, Soviet space medicine has advanced beyond Soviet nuclear medicine, if only by the addition of the sauna.
...that they can't have hot space sex.
Pretty much sounds like Linus Torvalds releasing another Linux kernel.
you should be able to get Satellite though, you could be the only /.er in space
/. is overrun by bed-wetting elitist nerds
let it be known, for anything other than servers, a *nix OS sucks
Actually that was a slight miss-translation, he asked for a suana full of vodka.
Mycroft
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...going back to the moon?
What's that?
Oh no!
It's Buzz Aldrin!
He's gonna punch me!
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
Going back to the moon...? Did we ever go there in the first place? Going back to the moon and Mars...? We went to Mars too? Where have I been!? ----- What if the moon missions were performed on a government sanctioned sound station? Perhaps in Area 51, or perhaps they just rented at Universal Studios... I mean, we couldn't possibly be left in the dust by the USSR! The Cold War was still being waged! It would have been what we call a "psychological victory" for the USSR. Just a thought. -Xeon
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