Back to the Moon
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I hope it is okay to post this link here. The site below is only intended to gather signatories for a petition to get the Moon landings reinstated. It carries no advertising and will not use any of the collected data for anything other than the petition. It will also remain non-partisan. If this breaks any rules then I apologise and will, of course delete the post immediately. Tychotics[^] I would also appreciate any constructive criticism or suggestions. Thanks
You mean we're going to rejuvenate Armstrong and Aldrin, go back in time and live in the past? I can't think of a more sensible, worthwhile effort for a country with real, critical problems to deal with. Those problems can wait while we indulge in a little nostalgia. If there's one thing the US has gotten good at over the last decade, it's our ability to live in a fantasy world and ignore reality. So by all means. If there's one thing the country needs now, it's a facile obsession with faded glory and a fuzzy promise to restore the past. Well, that or another war. Those are great distractions from domestic disaster, too.
L u n a t i c F r i n g e
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You mean we're going to rejuvenate Armstrong and Aldrin, go back in time and live in the past? I can't think of a more sensible, worthwhile effort for a country with real, critical problems to deal with. Those problems can wait while we indulge in a little nostalgia. If there's one thing the US has gotten good at over the last decade, it's our ability to live in a fantasy world and ignore reality. So by all means. If there's one thing the country needs now, it's a facile obsession with faded glory and a fuzzy promise to restore the past. Well, that or another war. Those are great distractions from domestic disaster, too.
L u n a t i c F r i n g e
Yes, but did you sign?
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Yes, but did you sign?
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I hope it is okay to post this link here. The site below is only intended to gather signatories for a petition to get the Moon landings reinstated. It carries no advertising and will not use any of the collected data for anything other than the petition. It will also remain non-partisan. If this breaks any rules then I apologise and will, of course delete the post immediately. Tychotics[^] I would also appreciate any constructive criticism or suggestions. Thanks
what's so wrong with going to Mars?
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what's so wrong with going to Mars?
Marcus_Idle wrote:
what's so wrong with going to Mars?
Nothing, but without the continuation of the Constellation heavy lifter program, neither Moon nor Mars will happen. The revived moon project was meant to be just a stepping stone to Mars...
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I hope it is okay to post this link here. The site below is only intended to gather signatories for a petition to get the Moon landings reinstated. It carries no advertising and will not use any of the collected data for anything other than the petition. It will also remain non-partisan. If this breaks any rules then I apologise and will, of course delete the post immediately. Tychotics[^] I would also appreciate any constructive criticism or suggestions. Thanks
digital man wrote:
I would also appreciate any constructive criticism or suggestions.
Website
We are hoping to collect the million signatures within 3 months; however, we hope to get far more than that.
Might want to change the wording. You basically just said "we hope to get 1 million, but we hope to get more". Kinda like saying "we hope to get 1 million, but we hope to get 2 million, but we hope to get 3 million, but we hope to get more". Anyway, I didn't sign. I don't see why we need another moon mission. Been there, done that; there was no cheese. Unless we actually build a moon base or something, that'd be pretty useless.
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Oh, and now the 1 votes... I guess I'd better stop voicing my own opinion and join the circle jerk, hadn't I? :laugh:
L u n a t i c F r i n g e
You deserve 'em, stop whining.
Jon We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. ~ G. Orwell. Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less
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digital man wrote:
I would also appreciate any constructive criticism or suggestions.
Website
We are hoping to collect the million signatures within 3 months; however, we hope to get far more than that.
Might want to change the wording. You basically just said "we hope to get 1 million, but we hope to get more". Kinda like saying "we hope to get 1 million, but we hope to get 2 million, but we hope to get 3 million, but we hope to get more". Anyway, I didn't sign. I don't see why we need another moon mission. Been there, done that; there was no cheese. Unless we actually build a moon base or something, that'd be pretty useless.
Then practice speaking Chinese. The moon is the high ground.
Jon We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. ~ G. Orwell. Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less
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Then practice speaking Chinese. The moon is the high ground.
Jon We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. ~ G. Orwell. Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less
So if I don't go to the moon, I'll have my limbs chopped off and I'll become an embittered Jedi?
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You deserve 'em, stop whining.
Jon We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. ~ G. Orwell. Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less
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So if I don't go to the moon, I'll have my limbs chopped off and I'll become an embittered Jedi?
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And CSS's alter ego crawls out from under his rock... :rolleyes:
L u n a t i c F r i n g e
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digital man wrote:
I would also appreciate any constructive criticism or suggestions.
Website
We are hoping to collect the million signatures within 3 months; however, we hope to get far more than that.
Might want to change the wording. You basically just said "we hope to get 1 million, but we hope to get more". Kinda like saying "we hope to get 1 million, but we hope to get 2 million, but we hope to get 3 million, but we hope to get more". Anyway, I didn't sign. I don't see why we need another moon mission. Been there, done that; there was no cheese. Unless we actually build a moon base or something, that'd be pretty useless.
aspdotnetdev wrote:
Unless we actually build a moon base or something
Interesting I took that for granted, sooner or later we have to explore living under those conditions, how the hell else are we going to exploit the system.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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aspdotnetdev wrote:
Unless we actually build a moon base or something
Interesting I took that for granted, sooner or later we have to explore living under those conditions, how the hell else are we going to exploit the system.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Yeah, they have people living in space, but still none actually living on the moon. It's about time they got on that.
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aspdotnetdev wrote:
Unless we actually build a moon base or something
Interesting I took that for granted, sooner or later we have to explore living under those conditions, how the hell else are we going to exploit the system.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
nteresting I took that for granted
With good reason. "The Lunar outpost will be an inhabited facility on the surface of the Moon which NASA currently proposes to construct over the five years between 2019 and 2024. The United States Congress has directed that the U.S. portion, "shall be designated the Neil A. Armstrong Lunar Outpost." ~ National Aeronautics and Space Administration Authorization Act of 2008 [^]
Jon We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. ~ G. Orwell. Soap Box 1.0: the first, the original, reborn troll-less
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I hope it is okay to post this link here. The site below is only intended to gather signatories for a petition to get the Moon landings reinstated. It carries no advertising and will not use any of the collected data for anything other than the petition. It will also remain non-partisan. If this breaks any rules then I apologise and will, of course delete the post immediately. Tychotics[^] I would also appreciate any constructive criticism or suggestions. Thanks
What a waste of money. List a single reason to go back to the moon (I can think of one). Rather than collect signatures so the government can steel my money for this folly, why not collect millions of dollars from each one of you dreamers and fund it yourself?
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And neither was mine.
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What a waste of money. List a single reason to go back to the moon (I can think of one). Rather than collect signatures so the government can steel my money for this folly, why not collect millions of dollars from each one of you dreamers and fund it yourself?
Joe Woodbury wrote:
List a single reason to go back to the moon
Would create direct benefits (for everyone) by the advances in medicine and technology that would be created by further space exploration. I have a few more but I'll be adding a page of reasons later today. What is your single reason?
Joe Woodbury wrote:
Rather than collect signatures so the government can steel my money for this folly, why not collect millions of dollars from each one of you dreamers and fund it yourself?
If I thought that would work I would: the best I can do is collect signatures in the hope that it'll have the desired impact. Besides, there's a lot of stuff I hate contributing taxes to but there are some things that simply need to be done and I believe returning to the Moon is one of those things. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.