Back to the moon?

[Atomic_Piggy]

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar

:O

 

[Tyguy]

sign me up

 

[<RJMC>]

my chance to do a moonwalk

 

[Raziaar]

Nassa is still planning on returning to the moon. I was watching a documentary where their next plan is to find surface water on on the moon using robots... and a way to make oxygen from the rocks there to provide a more realistic means of having a sustainable habitat. They've also been in the process of developing the habitats.

 

[Dekstar]

technically you have to have been there once to make it a 'return'.

 

[kirovman]

I don't have to have been to New York before to get a return ticket!

 

[Raziaar]

technically you have to have been there once to make it a 'return'.

:|

You're not serious, right? I mean, even if you dispute the first claimed landing on the moon, it's kind of difficult to dispute the rest of the footage of the nearly half a dozen other landings.

 

[Tyguy]

Nassa is still planning on returning to the moon. I was watching a documentary where their next plan is to find surface water on on the moon using robots... and a way to make oxygen from the rocks there to provide a more realistic means of having a sustainable habitat. They've also been in the process of developing the habitats.

The moon doesnt have an atmosphere though, so teraforming it would seem impossible. Unless we brought the gas producing crap from earth, it would still take thousands of years. Or so I saw on television...although they were talking about mars, so who knows

 

[Xendance]

I read about this on my mobile.

 

[Raziaar]

The moon doesnt have an atmosphere though, so teraforming it would seem impossible. Unless we brought the gas producing crap from earth, it would still take thousands of years. Or so I saw on television...although they were talking about mars, so who knows

I didn't hear any discussion about terraforming... simply a colony on the moon. The Oxygen would be used to supply the researchers in their suits and in their habitats. They say that there is loads of oxygen in the rock on the moon... just as there is loads of oxygen in much of our rock here. Particularily volcanic rock.

 

[Tyguy]

I didn't hear any discussion about terraforming... simply a colony on the moon. The Oxygen would be used to supply the researchers in their suits and in their habitats.

ahh yes, sorry i misread. Seems very interesting that it would be possible to extract oxygen from rocks though. Sucks we wont be around to see the fist mcdonalds on the moon, or will we

 

[Raziaar]

ahh yes, sorry i misread. Seems very interesting that it would be possible to extract oxygen from rocks though. Sucks we wont be around to see the fist mcdonalds on the moon, or will we

Sure you can see it... you just can't eat from there! Astronauts only, punk!

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

technically you have to have been there once to make it a 'return'.

:|

 

[The Monkey]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_outpost_(NASA)

That's gonna be awesome.

 

[Solaris]

technically you have to have been there once to make it a 'return'.

You don't think they went to the moon?

 

[Raziaar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_outpost_(NASA)

That's gonna be awesome.

Except that concept is completely inaccurate from what I saw they are actually designing right now. They're going with vertical constructs that are much more roomy(though still cramped by comparisons to other luxuries we have here). They are also toying with the possibilities of using inflatable habitat once the vertical buildings land. They are going with vertical because apparently it's easier to land something that way.

 

[Sulkdodds]

RETURN TO THE MOON

A tale of adventure, love, and mad science! Four astronauts battle for their lives in an unforgiving cosmos!

 

[kirovman]

I say that we send our astronauts to hide under the surface of the moon, and after thousands of years, when the indigenous moon people have evolved into a moderately advanced civilisation, our astronauts become awakened and start smashing up the joint ala Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds!

 

[Dekstar]

ok I'm going to have to amend my previous post with [/joke].

 

[kirovman]

ok I'm going to have to amend my previous post with [/joke].

It's too late for that, boyo.

You've been tarred with the holocaust denier brush!

 

[DEATHMASTER]

They need a less polluting rocket, h-power!

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Am I the only one who realised Dexstar was joking? :|

 

[Crushenator 500]

They should make an electric rocket, or a hybrid at least :E

 

[PvtRyan]

Am I the only one who realised Dexstar was joking? :|

Poe's Law:
"Without the use of a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to make a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing."

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Poe's Law:
"Without the use of a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to make a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing."

 

[PvtRyan]

 

[kirovman]

Am I the only one who realised Dexstar was joking? :|

Sure you say that.... now.

 

[<RJMC>]

RETURN TO THE MOON

A tale of adventure, love, and mad science! Four astronauts battle for their lives in an unforgiving cosmos!

whit chris tucker, orlando bloom,george clooney, and ben stiller

chris tucker: oh my gawd! I can see my fvking house from here!
orlando bloom:shut up and shoot the space monkeys!
george clooney: we are not gonna make it!
ben stiller: hey is your hand touching me down there?
*explotion*

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Sure you say that.... now.

My post had a happy smilie in! Fear it.

 

[TechnoHippyChic]

Japan just launched it's SELENE orbiter yesterday, and plans on a manned base in the next 15 or 20 years. Lot's of moon interest, lately.

Tsukini Kawatte, Oshiokiyo!

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Yeah, and China are supposed to be launching a probe in october :O (to the moon that is). Could this be the beginning of a space revolution?

Ah yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_future_lunar_missions

 

[Dekstar]

Yeah, and China are supposed to be launching a probe in october :O (to the moon that is). Could this be the beginning of a space revolution?

Ah yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_future_lunar_missions

No they just know the Earth's going to be blown up to create a hyperspace bypass.

 

[Raziaar]

Everybody go to the moon. It's the best!

I'll stay here.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

I'll stay here.

Thats what she said!

 

[Sulkdodds]

Yeah, and China are supposed to be launching a probe in october :O (to the moon that is). Could this be the beginning of a space revolution?

Ah yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_future_lunar_missions

No, it's just delusional nationalist-tinged escape instinct engendered by the impending meltdown of human society; easier to dream than to face up to the real problems of today.

 

[PvtRyan]

No, it's just delusional nationalist-tinged escape instinct engendered by the impending meltdown of human society; easier to dream than to face up to the real problems of today.

Party pooper.