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One Small Breath For Man
An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times reports on a new technique that may allow Oxygen to be wrung from the soil on the moon. This may pave the way for a moonbase, and allow permanent habitation on Earth's only natural satellite." From the article: "Lunar soil brought back to Earth is in short supply and highly prized, so Nasa researchers have been using matter with the same composition for its tests. The soil contains about 45 per cent oxygen by weight, but it is mostly 'trapped' in the form of silicon dioxide ... At the moment, all oxygen supplies would have to be brought from Earth, which is so expensive and energy-inefficient that it effectively rules out a permanent Moon base. "
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see that is pure briliance. now it will be much easier to put humans on the moon which will be great because it will advance the ultimate purpose of putting humans on the moon which is ...
... lets face it ... it is kind of embarassing.
... they even lifted a cool little jeep up there to do some moon offroading. What else is there?
hmmmm what the hell was the purpose of putting humans on the moon ??? Oh thats right there was this speech about four or five years ago, where Bush really wanted to be compared to Kenedy and so he started talking about putting people on the moon.
But then again I remember this other earlier speech where bush (again wanting to sound like kenedy) challenged Americans to give up 300 hours a year for community service. So which one of you people has done their community service this year? And no if you did it because you got a drunk driving violation that doesnt count.
Lets face it -- nobody did their community service. The few people that may have done some community service probably did not do it because of that speech, but for an entirely different reason. In fact everyone (including the biggest bush supporters) kind of forgot about that speech and the whole community service "challenge". So lets forget about the moon thing too. It's just as silly.
These speeches happened long ago and they served their purpose. I.e. everyone in the media talked about how similar bush is to Kenedy. And then there were these really cute arguments about whether he was more Kenedy like or more Churchill like. Or whether he was really the second Lincoln. Can we just forget about this whole period
If there is anything to do on the moon we can have some robots do it. That probably wont be a problem though because it is doubtful there is anything to do up there. In the Apolo missions they tried to do everything they could