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NASA Plans Lunar Mobile Phone Network
If NASA and the British National Space Centre succeed in their 'MoonLite mission' you won't be able to say, "In space no one can hear your ringtone." They plan on building a satellite system/phone network that would provide full four-bar signal coverage for colonists living in the base NASA wants to build at the south pole of the moon after 2020.
He'll delay Constellation for five years (pdf link, go to the last page), which will result in layoffs for all the people we'd need to get to the moon, and then we'll have to go try to re-hire them. Meanwhile the designs are being done now, so the plans will just sit for 5 years going out of date. Brilliant. And what will the money be used for? Saving no child left behind. Yes, let's dump more money in to education, that will fix it.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
I also think that is sad, however I do hope that most of the people here realize that a large part of the space program is funded by the Airforce. A huge number of satellites and other things are put up there by they the fly boys.
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Nope, you're definitely a retard. How do you think light gets from the sun to earth? How do you think signals get from the ground to satelites? Shit. Someone needs to go back to elementary school.