http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/mmb/why_moon.html Finally, Its been a L O N G Wait but NASA finally head out of its exhaust and is p[lanning new lunar landings & an International Lunar Base that will be the seed for the first human city off Earth That we know of anyways
shouldnt they/we/the world finish the international space station 1st? then move onto the moon? 1 project at a time
LOL, wouldn't that suck if they had an accident of some sort on the set and something tore down the black backdrop exposing a hangar interior?
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!" Maybe OJ could reprise his role in "Capricorn One" and ship himself off to the new moonbase for real this time. He could practice his lunar golf swing, a la Alan Shepard, and roam the dark side of the moon as he did in Brentwood during the night.
Arkansas engineers have already completed the final design of the new moonbase. Image Unavailable, Please Login
He's probably right. I'm sure that it would be alot cheaper and easier to terraform either Mars or Venus.
Shuttle launch has just been scrubbed. Weather conditions were a no-go (cloud cover) and the window expired. They're safing the STS atm. Would have to be the most anti-climactic experience ever...
Can we SEND people there? Celebrities, perhaps? Maybe we can vote them the undesirable goofballs off the planet to settle the moon. It worked for Australia! Unfortunately I think their "Paris Hilton and Friends on the Moon" reality show would end up being popular. Maybe once a week they can blast someone out the airlock.
What gives.... the moon base in "Moonraker" w/ Roger Moore wasn't real?? How about we solve some freakin problems here on Earth first!! Now worries for the GOV though... I'm sure all the moon-nuats will have full health care and all the MIT geeks who thought this up have it as well. Have a coctail on the "moon deck" and laugh at all the Earthlings who struggle from day to day......
I'm sure that GREYPEACE will start picketing space and filing lawsuits trying to protect endangered rock formations on the moon. Al Sharpton will say there aren't enough minorities on the moon. The French will want the moon but won't be able to get there without paying off the Russians to take them. Google will try and finance the moon with a stock option buyout based on a new revenue stream of moon advertisements and the new Google Moon service. Eliot Spitzer will investigate researchers back dating the moon to make it older that we thought it was. Oprah will be offended because she wasn't invited to the moon and when she got tehre the French wouldn't let her in. GM will open a dealership there so they can be #1 again on at least one planetoid. ACLU will sue to help gays marry on the moon. Chinese decide they will build another moon for far cheaper. UAE Sheiks will commission the Chinese to build the new moon. The Unification Church files suit for common law trademark dilution. Furor continues over socialized space travel as Scandanavian countries offer tax-subsidized trips to the moon Lithuanians travel to moon and are still most depressed people Pink Floyd becomes most famous band on the moon Astronaut ice cream becomes best selling food product Anorexics flock to the moon where zero gravity helps thin down those unsightly muscle tissues. "What Happens on The Moon, Stays on The Moon." No, really.
Like all the problems the politicians have been blowing billions on for decades without accomplishing squat? Smokescreen. The reason that no gov is going to invest in an off-world colony, is that they saw what happened to the British and Spanish investment in the Americas. The first rule: Don't send people where you can't collect taxes from them. For an off-world colony to work, you need products that you need to be there to make.
I think the most important question concerning this isn't 'why' but 'how'. At what point does this colony become sustainable, so that transport between here and there is only for personel movement?
