Space Tug to the Moon and Beyond

An anonymous reader writes "Andrews Space and SpaceDev, a contributor to SpaceShipOne, are building a cargo transport called SmallTug to travel to the Lunar L1 point using a Hall Thruster and running off of solar power. The final craft will be capable of attaching to and transporting satellites 85 percent of the way to the Moon for use in interplanetary missions. The launch date is scheduled for 2008 and it is being designed to be quite inexpensive. The Inquirer has more details."

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The moon is a liberal myth.

[Anonymous Coward]

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!)

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 .. 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.

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.

Re:The moon is a liberal myth.

[mederjo]

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.

Replying is troll feeding, and frankly I'm surprised you spent the energy to type all that out ( unless you're trying to be funny ), but I was reading this just the other day :

Romeo

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon

by William Shakespeare, 1597

...if such a person even existed, that is...

Re:The moon is a liberal myth.

[rsynnott]

Ah, but the great joint-Iluminati/World Zionist Consipracy/Knights Templar/other causers of tinfoil hat wearing group responsible rewrote all the books, obviously. Also, tides are caused by special machinery installed for the purpose. ;)

Re:The moon is a liberal myth.

[mederjo]

Ah, but the great joint-Iluminati/World Zionist Consipracy/Knights Templar/other causers of tinfoil hat wearing group responsible rewrote all the books, obviously.

Ah, of course, how foolish of me.

Also, tides are caused by special machinery installed for the purpose. ;)

Let me get this straight though - could the giant balloon not also be responsible for the tides ? No need for what would have to be some impressive machinery ( and associated maintenance, salt water can be rough on things ) if it were just a side effect of the giant balloon flying about. Those nuclear reactors would probably have a quite a bit of mass after all.

We also have the moon here in New Zealand. We're pretty liberal already, and we don't have the same issues with guns as the US does, so what could the liberal moon pilots be looking for ?

Food for thought...

Re:The moon is a liberal myth.

[arbitraryaardvark]

Short version of parent: "That's no moon!"

SmallTug?

[matt21811]

Ha, could they come up with a more porno sounding name?

Of course it comes as no suprise that "Andrews Space is a privately held company"