Space Exploration

[Imperial Power]

Without the cold war driving the space programs how do you think we should encourage more space exploration. I would like to see a moon colony within the next 10 years but it appears no one really cares anymore. Nothing unites people like a common goal and thats what the current problem is with the outbreak of conflict in the World.

[Rosa]

Buon voyage, I'll spend a coin to sponsor your trip to the Moon: you and your fellows can dig as much stones as you want to, and leave the rest of us to enjoj the beauty of forrests we'll revive.

[Supermodel]

LMAO!!!

I think I'll decline the invitation to work on the moon colony too!!

How about something useful like stamping out typhoid or AIDS or child abuse? I don't see the point of going to the moon with so many direct problems staring at us here.

[Moskitto]

The last thing I heard about space exploration was that they decided if you landed on Mars you'd break your legs because you wouldn't be using them for so long.

And what is wrong with having an exercise bike on the space ship to keep your legs moving?

[Imperial Power]

See this is the shit im talking about. No one gives a damn anymore about the space program. IF you don't want your spots on the moon colony all the more room for me! I'll set up a mining corporation on the moon how would you like that.

[peaccenicked]

IP I agree.
Capitalism has progressive features, and even if it has got its priorities all wrong it does do some pretty amazing things.

(Edited by peaccenicked at 2:17 am on Feb. 28, 2002)

[MJM]

Heard of the x-prize?
Capitalist project to make space travel into a business venture.

[MJM]

http://www.xprize.org/~xprize/home/default.htm

here's a link.

[Guest]

the space program has proved its virtue in the past. billions of dollars aimed towards getting a person to the moon, not for the homeless, not for the sick, elderly, and diseased, not to stop world hunger, not to help the less fortunate, but to get a man to step on the moon.
Has everyone noticed how much we have gained from a man steppning on the moon.

how i see it, screw the mood, screw space, we have very serious problems right in front of our faces, lets fix that first, then we go to the moon.

[Rosa]

Moskitto:what would happen on Mars is:
1) the gravity on Mars is lower thamn is on Earth
2) human heart is positioned in upper 1/3 of a body, bcs it has to give more push to blood when goes in brain, then when it goes in legs - the gravity makes the blood go in legs naturally
3)so - human legs would stunt in that conditions
4) CAPIES GO TO MARS and to Moon
5)the 1st man in space was a russian

[RedRevolutionary87]

i say mars belongs to the commies, after all it is the red planet

[RedCeltic]

IP... there's nothing worth mining for on the moon.

[Son of Scargill]

[quote]how i see it, screw the moon, screw space, we have very serious problems right in front of our faces, lets fix that first, then we go to the moon.[quote]
from "Guest".
Which is SO true.But if we somehow manage to avoid destroying ourselves,and our life-support system(planet Earth),then the Sun is definately going to do it for us.Life is about the continuation of species,so research into interstellar travel is still a valid point.
Oh!No!....I sort of agree with IP........