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Post by bababooey on Dec 4, 2006 23:01:46 GMT -4
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Post by Count Zero on Dec 5, 2006 0:37:49 GMT -4
Indeed. I think that the most important component for a permanent base will be manufacturing equipment to convert lunar ore (such as aluminum) into useful construction materials and tools. Lifting such things from the Earth is enormously expensive. Getting the colonists to the point where they can "live off the land" as quickly as possible is the only way to lower the costs to the point where private industry will invest in lunar developement.
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Post by reynoldbot on Dec 5, 2006 11:54:18 GMT -4
I can't help but notice how much the concept art makes the lunar base look like a trailor park.
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Post by Grand Lunar on Dec 16, 2006 14:16:31 GMT -4
I can't help but notice how much the concept art makes the lunar base look like a trailor park. If there's a rover on blocks, that'll complete the picture. "Y'all come back now, ya hear?" |
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Post by Data Cable on Dec 16, 2006 14:51:34 GMT -4
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Post by Moon Man on Dec 16, 2006 21:33:41 GMT -4
The new space station and future moon bases will be ballons. They are lighter to get into space. The space station will have a swimming pool in a barrel. The water will stay forced against the outer wall as it rotates.
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Post by james on Dec 16, 2006 23:24:20 GMT -4
hahaha that's great! Good work. Just watch this picture show up on some HB site as evidence that there are aliens on the moon and that they've looted the rovers tires or something. |
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Post by Grand Lunar on Dec 17, 2006 15:26:23 GMT -4
The new space station and future moon bases will be ballons. They are lighter to get into space. The space station will have a swimming pool in a barrel. The water will stay forced against the outer wall as it rotates. Plausible, except for the swimming pool claim. Water is too vauable in space to waste in such a fashion. |
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Post by Moon Man on Dec 17, 2006 21:43:33 GMT -4
Picture this. Those who go to Mars and return will spend over 4 years in darkness. The current plan is to send people who will not return. They will die in space. They want to sent a woman and a man so they can make babies, whose babies will make babies and thus, those babies will never know life on earth.
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Post by Bob B. on Dec 17, 2006 23:17:26 GMT -4
Those who go to Mars and return will spend over 4 years in darkness. A trip to Mars and back will take about 2.5 years as dictated by celestial dynamics. Darkness? How do you figure that? |
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Post by Moon Man on Dec 17, 2006 23:48:59 GMT -4
There is no light in space.
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Post by grashtel on Dec 17, 2006 23:59:23 GMT -4
There is no light in space. Definitely another one for the tribute page, and is it just me or is Moon Man actually managing to get dumber and more ignorant? |
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Post by Grand Lunar on Dec 18, 2006 0:04:09 GMT -4
There is no light in space. Then what gives light on the Earth during the day, and what are those little dots at night?  |
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Post by Grand Lunar on Dec 18, 2006 0:07:54 GMT -4
Picture this. Those who go to Mars and return will spend over 4 years in darkness. The current plan is to send people who will not return. They will die in space. They want to sent a woman and a man so they can make babies, whose babies will make babies and thus, those babies will never know life on earth. Sounds like you're mixing up some space missions here. The ones with the no return mission is a hypothetical mission to send people to another solar system. It's a plan held for when our own planet gets roasted. Plenty of time to go, though; about 5 billion years. A Mars mission is 2 1/2 years round trip (7 months there, similar time back, plus exploration time). Unless they have heart attacks or some other untimely death, I can't see how anyone will die in space on that mission. |
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Post by LunarOrbit on Dec 18, 2006 1:35:25 GMT -4
There is no light in space. Bwah-hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! (you were joking, right? ) |
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