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re: Weren't we supposed to be on the moon again* by now?
Posted on 10/3/22 at 10:48 pm to Squirrelmeister
Posted on 10/3/22 at 10:48 pm to Squirrelmeister
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These are the things we have too much of nowadays…
- diversity
- equity
- inclusion
- corruption
- laziness
- greed
- democrats
Back then NASA had a fraction of the funding and technology, but they had the best and brightest people. In 2022 NASA would probably need 20 engineering contractors (Eskimo, Indian, Chinese, Black gay trans women owned companies will subcontract to competent firms). It would take 20 years and literally a thousand times more cost (even adjusted for inflation) for today’s government to put a man on the moon. Ever seen “Idiocracy”?
I agree.
And, if I may add, the average age of the mission control engineers for Apollo 11 was 26 years old. Those guys were young, hungry, and the best of the best
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Posted on 10/3/22 at 11:36 pm to tiggerfan02 2021
There is an Eskimo-Inuit run aerospace company in Huntsville
Posted on 10/3/22 at 11:50 pm to Thundercles
Apollo missions would have been very advanced if they continued till today. it was not only very dangerous but expensive to send a payload into space. with SpaceX new rockets it will be a lot safer and cost less due to reusability.
the answer to your question is America basically killed the whole space program because the Soviet Union fell. years of research, human lives and engineering flushed down the toilet.
the answer to your question is America basically killed the whole space program because the Soviet Union fell. years of research, human lives and engineering flushed down the toilet.
Posted on 10/4/22 at 12:18 am to DreauxB2015
I forgot about this quote. Oh yeah we spent a shitload of time and money making this huge advancement in technology, then destroyed it just because.
Posted on 10/4/22 at 5:56 am to Thundercles
"Just because" it's not practical.
They spent a decade sending people largely for show.
We still send people to space, the "technology" is more oxygen and radiation protection, but we know there's no advantage to sending people instead of unmanned flights (which happen regularly).
They spent a decade sending people largely for show.
We still send people to space, the "technology" is more oxygen and radiation protection, but we know there's no advantage to sending people instead of unmanned flights (which happen regularly).
Posted on 10/4/22 at 7:31 am to Thundercles
How do you know that we are not already there?
We've never left. Read Behold a Pale Horse It will explain everything.
We've never left. Read Behold a Pale Horse It will explain everything.
Posted on 10/4/22 at 7:35 am to Thundercles
USA had a human walk on the moon with Commodore 64 60's technology about the same as Tomatocantender gave Dua Lipa an orgasm with my 6-inch pecker; e.g. Never happened.
Posted on 10/4/22 at 7:37 am to Thundercles
Purpose of renewed moon missions was eventual establishment of a base for deeper space flight (lower gravity = less fuel for escape velocity = more fuel for space flight).
Problem is they have been unable to account for, or prevent, muscle wasting/atrophy and bone loss during space travel.
There's a reason astronauts have to be helped out of their capsules and are "quarantined" for so long. They can barely move. And this is just from "short" missions (the long termers on the ISS are wrecks when they get back to Earth).
Now...imagine the long arse flight to Mars and having to get out and explore when you get there.
Problem is they have been unable to account for, or prevent, muscle wasting/atrophy and bone loss during space travel.
There's a reason astronauts have to be helped out of their capsules and are "quarantined" for so long. They can barely move. And this is just from "short" missions (the long termers on the ISS are wrecks when they get back to Earth).
Now...imagine the long arse flight to Mars and having to get out and explore when you get there.
Posted on 10/4/22 at 7:46 am to udtiger
You silly, silly person, we went to Mars 30 years ago. We have a colony there.....along with some aliens from Titan. We've figured out the gravity thing with the help of our alien " friends"
Posted on 10/4/22 at 7:48 am to udtiger
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Problem is they have been unable to account for, or prevent, muscle wasting/atrophy and bone loss during space travel.
I honestly think this is why we've spent so much time doing low earth orbit research. We aren't the only things being in near 0 gravity affects.
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Now...imagine the long arse flight to Mars and having to get out and explore when you get there.
Luckily the gravity there is 3/8 of ours. Gonna get dennis reynolds (always sunny) to teach them how to do hummingbirds
Posted on 10/4/22 at 7:55 am to Thundercles
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50 years ago America was purportedly sending people up the moon routinely.
Stopped reading right there.
Posted on 10/4/22 at 8:01 am to udtiger
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Purpose of renewed moon missions was eventual establishment of a base for deeper space flight (lower gravity = less fuel for escape velocity = more fuel for space flight).
From a practical, engineering standpoint, this doesn't make a lick of sense unless you're refining fuel on the Moon. The Moon is still orbiting Earth (and, indirectly, the Sun). The Moon isn't "on the way" to anywhere. You would spend way, way more fuel to do a TLI, landing and take off from your lower gravity Moonbase than it would be to just go where you're going to go (e.g. Mars) from Earth orbit.
The old adage holds true - once you're in Earth's orbit, you're halfway to anywhere.
Posted on 10/4/22 at 8:10 am to jonnyanony
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We aren't interested in sending humans to the moon anymore,
I gotta call BS on this!
Posted on 10/4/22 at 8:14 am to Goonie02
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the answer to your question is America basically killed the whole space program because the Soviet Union fell
This makes zero sense…if anything it highlights a motive to fake technological superiority to make this happen in the first place.
Posted on 10/4/22 at 8:17 am to Ace Midnight
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You would spend way, way more fuel to do a TLI, landing and take off from your lower gravity Moonbase than it would be to just go where you're going to go (e.g. Mars) from Earth orbit.
I'm gonna have to ask if they're really planning on landing and then relaunching from the lunar surface. I had assumed they'd stay in lunar orbit and ferry back and forth with a 2020s megasized lunar descent module, but I'm not even gonna pretend I've actually done much reading beyond the first few artemis missions.
Posted on 10/4/22 at 8:28 am to Thundercles
The Moon???
Posted on 10/4/22 at 8:31 am to Purple Spoon
We shunt blacks into places that are bad fits for them academically, or where they get cashiered in departments and in pursuits that are of absolutely no use in the real world.
Posted on 10/4/22 at 8:31 am to Thundercles
Our computers today are light years better than what NASA had in 1969 but we are still thwarted by basic plumbing problems.
Posted on 10/4/22 at 8:33 am to frequent flyer
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Yeah but then we forgot how to math and Biden got elected.
Math is racist. But, apparently giving someone the wrong answer in space can get them killed.
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