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NASA's Future Inflatable Lunar Base
Roland Piquepaille writes "If you think that future NASA's moon camps need to have a science fiction look, you might be disappointed. Today, NASA is testing small inflatable structures. In fact, if these expandable 'tents' receive positive reviews, astronauts will 'camp' on the moon as early as 2020. These 12-foot (3.65 meter) diameter inflatable units could be used as building blocks for a future lunar base. Right now, a prototype is tested at NASA's Langley Research Center. But NASA also wants to test other inflatable structures in the not-too-friendly environment of the Antarctic next year. Still, it's too early to know if NASA's first habitable lunar base will use inflatable or rigid structures."
please clarify:
Plus if the bags are in sections, then you could lose one
Are we talking about the inflatable astronauts or the lunatic diaper wearing astronauts?
Thank you thank you, I'll be here all week...try the veal!
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
Also known as Panderer Supreme
The prerequisite to understanding this letter is to have encountered some of John McCain's litanies and to have realized how pharisaical they are. Unless you share my view that McCain must think that the world has no memory, there's no need for you to hear me further. Antagonism doesn't work. So why does McCain cling to it? McCain doesn't want you to know the answer to that question; he wants to ensure you don't follow through on the critical work that has already begun.
In light of my stance on this issue, if I have a bias, it is only against quasi-pertinacious misogynists who sentence more and more people to poverty, prison, and early death. You might have heard the story that McCain once agreed to help us appeal not to the contented and satisfied, but embrace those tormented by suffering, those without peace, the unhappy and the discontented. No one has located the document in which McCain said that. No one has identified when or where McCain said that. That's because he never said it. As you might have suspected, I'm willing to accept that McCain's biases are way off base. I'm even willing to accept that he is a heterogeneous conglomeration of everything combative, unrealistic, and grotesque. But there are some aberrant, deranged fiends who are immature. There are also some who are unambitious. Which category does McCain fall into? If the question overwhelms you, I suggest you check "both". I guess that my take on this is that McCain likes to posture as a guardian of virtue and manners. However, when it comes right down to it, what he is pushing is both oppressive and pestiferous.
I wonder if McCain really believes the things he says. He knows they're not true, doesn't he? The most appealing theory has to do with the way that if the past is any indication of the future, McCain will once again attempt to anesthetize the human spirit. He is obviously trying to cause this country to flounder on the shoals of self-interest, corruption, and chaos, and unless we act now, he'll indisputably succeed. It goes almost without saying that the biggest difference between me and McCain is that McCain wants to scar little children's self-image. I, on the other hand, want to give parents the means to protect their children and encourage others to do the same. Sadly, in once sense, he is correct. If we let McCain appropriate sacred symbols for fork-tongued purposes, then I will obviously be forced to develop an eating disorder. He is not only immoral, but amoral.
I, for one, don't want to make any hard and final judgments, but if McCain bites me, I will honestly bite back. I pause to note that anyone who says that doing the fashionable thing is more important than life or liberty can be branded as both prissy and viperine. In fact, I have said that to McCain on many occasions and I will keep on saying it until he stops trying to pit people against each other.
McCain will stop at nothing to focus too much on one side of the equation and not enough on the broader perspective of things. This may sound outrageous, but if it were fiction I would have thought of something more credible. As it stands, McCain asserts that ageism is a be-all, end-all system that should be forcefully imposed upon us. That assertion is not only untrue, but a conscious lie. Whether or not you realize this, his goal is to trade facts for fantasy, truth for myths, academics for collective socialization, and individual thinking for group manipulation. This is abject emotionalism!
McCain wants to become an intellectual without the hardship of study and serious thought. (Actually, McCain has no moral courage, nor even a desire to be honest and forthright, but that's not important now.) Above all, he seems to have a bitter ideological conflict with my statement that there are people better equipped to cope with life than muzzy-headed lowbrows. He seems to have recently added the word "biblicopsychological" to his otherwise simplistic vocabulary. I suppose Mc
THe US wont go to the moon. China or maybe INdia but not the US. Our country's space aspirations were snuffed out forever by the liberal revolution. The Democrats' constant need for tax-funded services cause they cant get their own lives together will direct taxes collected in to more and more social services leaving few dollars for NASA and other research for the future.
I figured it out. That is, how such an uninformed post was modded Insightful.
The I scrooled back to the top and re-read the Bush bash.
Explains the moderation.
All Bush bashing is insightful.
It is the definition of insightful.
Being insightful is easy.