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Originally posted by: conehead433
Going to the Moon, or Mars, or any other planet is a waste of resources. Establishing any sort of base on such is a ridiculous notion because of the frequency of meteor impacts with no atmosphere to burn them up on entry. The best spent money in the space program is to keep the space station going, and be able to conduct valuable experiments there.
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Well, that's one opinion. I disagree. It's the first step towards a larger goal of establishing a base on Mars. A learning experience. Much easier to help our teams when it doesn't take six months or longer to get there.
 
Originally posted by: flyboy84
maybe civilian space will make it to the moon before the US can? 😛 anyone wanna take a ride on spaceship two? 😉
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Pretty much, and when they do get there, and take it over... who is going to stop them?? noone else can even get there...

It's the perfect plan... 😀
 
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: conehead433
Going to the Moon, or Mars, or any other planet is a waste of resources. Establishing any sort of base on such is a ridiculous notion because of the frequency of meteor impacts with no atmosphere to burn them up on entry. The best spent money in the space program is to keep the space station going, and be able to conduct valuable experiments there.
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Well, that's one opinion. I disagree. It's the first step towards a larger goal of establishing a base on Mars. A learning experience. Much easier to help our teams when it doesn't take six months or longer to get there.
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You must of studied under the same profs as George W. Bush

Bush quote

"Mars is essentially in the same orbit . . . Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."

And of course it will be easy and cheap to build far enough underground or to otherwise come up with a missle defense system for meteors.

You should go to work for NASA and help piss away a few huindred billion more dollars of taxpayers' money.

 
Originally posted by: conehead433
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: conehead433
Going to the Moon, or Mars, or any other planet is a waste of resources. Establishing any sort of base on such is a ridiculous notion because of the frequency of meteor impacts with no atmosphere to burn them up on entry. The best spent money in the space program is to keep the space station going, and be able to conduct valuable experiments there.
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Well, that's one opinion. I disagree. It's the first step towards a larger goal of establishing a base on Mars. A learning experience. Much easier to help our teams when it doesn't take six months or longer to get there.
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You must of studied under the same profs as George W. Bush

Bush quote

"Mars is essentially in the same orbit . . . Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."

And of course it will be easy and cheap to build far enough underground or to otherwise come up with a missle defense system for meteors.

You should go to work for NASA and help piss away a few huindred billion more dollars of taxpayers' money.
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http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_dan_quayle_quotes.htm
 
cause congress is freakin retarded and wont give NASA a real budget.. funny how a bunch of air-blowers think they can build a spacecraft by talking about it:disgust:
 
Originally posted by: conehead433
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: conehead433
Going to the Moon, or Mars, or any other planet is a waste of resources. Establishing any sort of base on such is a ridiculous notion because of the frequency of meteor impacts with no atmosphere to burn them up on entry. The best spent money in the space program is to keep the space station going, and be able to conduct valuable experiments there.
Click to expand...

Well, that's one opinion. I disagree. It's the first step towards a larger goal of establishing a base on Mars. A learning experience. Much easier to help our teams when it doesn't take six months or longer to get there.
Click to expand...

You must of studied under the same profs as George W. Bush

Bush quote

"Mars is essentially in the same orbit . . . Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."

And of course it will be easy and cheap to build far enough underground or to otherwise come up with a missle defense system for meteors.

You should go to work for NASA and help piss away a few huindred billion more dollars of taxpayers' money.
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Your response is a bit of a non sequitur. I don't see what it has to do with what I said.
And the phrase you were grasping for was "You must have studied"
 
Originally posted by: tami
Originally posted by: thehstrybean
Originally posted by: mugs
They faked the first one, they gotta figure out how to do it from scratch.
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LoL...we debated that in my physical science class sophmore year...we went to the moon...no doubt in my mind.
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you didn't go anywhere. some other guy did. 😛
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Uh uh...I went...I would tell you, then I'd have to kill you...
 
Originally posted by: JEDI
13 yrs?!

the apollo program was quicker, and they started from scratch!

50 yrs since the last moon landing, why are we incapable of visiting the moon for another 13 yrs?!
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because we faked it 50 years ago?

I always dismissed all the conspiracy theories untill i saw footagle of astronauts walking around casting TWO shadows.
 
Originally posted by: halik
Originally posted by: JEDI
13 yrs?!

the apollo program was quicker, and they started from scratch!

50 yrs since the last moon landing, why are we incapable of visiting the moon for another 13 yrs?!
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because we faked it 50 years ago?

I always dismissed all the conspiracy theories untill i saw footagle of astronauts walking around casting TWO shadows.
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I'm sure there is an explanation for that.

For some interesting reading, check this out:

http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/news/2001/news-moonlanding.asp
 
Originally posted by: JEDI
13 yrs?!

the apollo program was quicker, and they started from scratch!

50 yrs since the last moon landing, why are we incapable of visiting the moon for another 13 yrs?!
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Takes a long time to make the sets and model spaceships. These days people are going to demand better looking footage/special effects, so a lot more care must be taken.

Either that or they're actually going to go this time and it takes a while to actually set up a real space mission.

just kidding, guys!
*runs*
 
Originally posted by: thehstrybean
Originally posted by: mugs
They faked the first one, they gotta figure out how to do it from scratch.
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LoL...we debated that in my physical science class sophmore year...we went to the moon...no doubt in my mind.
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Well if the Chinese make it there first, then we'll know if it was faked. If our guys get tehre frist, they'll just set up a nice fake original moon landing site, lol.
 
Originally posted by: halik
Originally posted by: JEDI
13 yrs?!

the apollo program was quicker, and they started from scratch!

50 yrs since the last moon landing, why are we incapable of visiting the moon for another 13 yrs?!
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because we faked it 50 years ago?

I always dismissed all the conspiracy theories untill i saw footagle of astronauts walking around casting TWO shadows.
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Earth and Sun.
 
Originally posted by: conehead433
Going to the Moon, or Mars, or any other planet is a waste of resources. Establishing any sort of base on such is a ridiculous notion because of the frequency of meteor impacts with no atmosphere to burn them up on entry. The best spent money in the space program is to keep the space station going, and be able to conduct valuable experiments there.
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Um no. We nned to explore other planets and large asteroids ect. In order for our civilization to survive we MUST go to the stars. The Earth has a finite supply of resources. What do we do when those resources run out?
 
Originally posted by: sonz70
Originally posted by: intogamer
8TRL in debt?
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2 wars, multiple disaters, a space program that is more of a pr stunt than anything...
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Actually the problem is that NASA is not enough of a PR stunt. NASA takes its goal of science first very seriously and has had about the worst press agent ever. They have done great and important science, but people still think of them as a simple show of American power, with little or no use other then to one-up the rest of the world. Most people think that NASA focuses its research on purely academic science that can have no bearing on their lives. Nothing could be further from the truth. Anyone who says that the space program is a waste of money does so because they do not know how valuable it really is. The US space program has more then paid for itself.

For the conspiracy nuts out there that think we never went to the moon, there is plenty of evidence that we did. Living in Houston I have known people most of my life that took part in the Apollo projects.

Personally I think we should go to the moon, and build a permanent base there. If we want our race to survive we need to take those first tentative steps into the solar system. Any species that fails to expand into new territory is doomed to extinction.
 
Originally posted by: conehead433
Going to the Moon, or Mars, or any other planet is a waste of resources. Establishing any sort of base on such is a ridiculous notion because of the frequency of meteor impacts with no atmosphere to burn them up on entry. The best spent money in the space program is to keep the space station going, and be able to conduct valuable experiments there.
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Mars, like most planets, has an athmosphere that protects the surface from metor impact just like here on Earth. Luna (Earth's moon) does not, but our evidence shows that there is not that many recent metor impacts on the moon of any great size. The odds of being hit by anything that a hardened structure (the type we would have to have because of radiation anyway) could not withstand is very remote.
 
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