Moon or Mars?
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It won't be long until it will be the 50th anniversary of landing on the Moon. The last landing was in 1972 and then we just seemed to give up. Recently everyone seems keen on going to Mars, which is a nice goal... eventually. Where is the my retirement home on the Moon? Low gravity would be great. No bugs, snakes or home-security salesmen. An afternoon's flying with artificial wings in the Big Dome to pass the time and then home to my relaxing chair in front of the holographic TV showing re-runs of cool, old Sci-Fi movies! I think we should get the moon-base(s) up and running before going to Mars. Buzz Aldrin agrees with me. What do you think?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
That was my first thought.
Can I volunteer a few candidates?
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Michael Martin wrote:
Can I volunteer a few candidates?
You can volunteer :laugh:
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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It won't be long until it will be the 50th anniversary of landing on the Moon. The last landing was in 1972 and then we just seemed to give up. Recently everyone seems keen on going to Mars, which is a nice goal... eventually. Where is the my retirement home on the Moon? Low gravity would be great. No bugs, snakes or home-security salesmen. An afternoon's flying with artificial wings in the Big Dome to pass the time and then home to my relaxing chair in front of the holographic TV showing re-runs of cool, old Sci-Fi movies! I think we should get the moon-base(s) up and running before going to Mars. Buzz Aldrin agrees with me. What do you think?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Forogar wrote:
I think we should get the moon-base(s) up and running before going to Mars. Buzz Aldrin agrees with me. What do you think?
I think I have a plot of land on the moon that you may be interested in :) Lunar Embassy[^] Seriously again; Mars sounds nice but is technically not very efficient. We'd also be unprepared for having two different roads for our genes - as one set would evolve on earth and reward things that are beneficial on earth, the other would start to adapt to Mars.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
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Michael Martin wrote:
Can I volunteer a few candidates?
You can volunteer :laugh:
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
Brent Jenkins wrote:
You can volunteer :laugh:
No, I was thinking of all the Poms, that way they can get as far away from the EU as possible.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Brent Jenkins wrote:
You can volunteer :laugh:
No, I was thinking of all the Poms, that way they can get as far away from the EU as possible.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Why not just send the EU there.. kind of like in Iron Sky :laugh:
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
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Forogar wrote:
I think we should get the moon-base(s) up and running before going to Mars. Buzz Aldrin agrees with me. What do you think?
I think I have a plot of land on the moon that you may be interested in :) Lunar Embassy[^] Seriously again; Mars sounds nice but is technically not very efficient. We'd also be unprepared for having two different roads for our genes - as one set would evolve on earth and reward things that are beneficial on earth, the other would start to adapt to Mars.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
Eddy Vluggen wrote:
We'd also be unprepared for having two different roads for our genes - as one set would evolve on earth and reward things that are beneficial on earth, the other would start to adapt to Mars.
I thought it was already like that... men are from Mars and women from Venus :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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You are assuming that they would bring them home again, it could be a one way trip[^]. :)
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Oooh yes, Let's turn it into a penal colony like Australia! (Shipping criminals to the Moon would be even less cost effective than shipping them to Australia. OTOH, given that at the time, the alternative was hanging, I'm not sure the criminals would have agreed with me...)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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It won't be long until it will be the 50th anniversary of landing on the Moon. The last landing was in 1972 and then we just seemed to give up. Recently everyone seems keen on going to Mars, which is a nice goal... eventually. Where is the my retirement home on the Moon? Low gravity would be great. No bugs, snakes or home-security salesmen. An afternoon's flying with artificial wings in the Big Dome to pass the time and then home to my relaxing chair in front of the holographic TV showing re-runs of cool, old Sci-Fi movies! I think we should get the moon-base(s) up and running before going to Mars. Buzz Aldrin agrees with me. What do you think?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Neither. Figure out how to live on this planet first without destroying it. The reason for that is actually a simple one -- any Mars or Moon base would be 100% reliant on shipments from earth -- the ability to have a self-sustaining colony in a hard radiation vacuum or near vacuum environment simply doesn't exist yet -- and the idea of creating such a colony, relying on a planet that is potentially heading towards suicide, well, that's just stupid. Solving those self-sustaining issues here, on this planet, first, seems a lot more logical, especially since we still have a cushy environment that doesn't have the problems that Mars/Moon has. Marc
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Neither. Figure out how to live on this planet first without destroying it. The reason for that is actually a simple one -- any Mars or Moon base would be 100% reliant on shipments from earth -- the ability to have a self-sustaining colony in a hard radiation vacuum or near vacuum environment simply doesn't exist yet -- and the idea of creating such a colony, relying on a planet that is potentially heading towards suicide, well, that's just stupid. Solving those self-sustaining issues here, on this planet, first, seems a lot more logical, especially since we still have a cushy environment that doesn't have the problems that Mars/Moon has. Marc
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100% reliant on shipments from Earth? That's not even close to true, for the moon at least. There are billions of tonnes of water ice as asteroids. A drone with some simple dirty reactors could use some of that water as reaction mass simply by heating it to steam in a hole - and the hole could be dug with the reactor on low. Once you have ample water ice orbiting the sun near the Earth the whole game changes. You can use it for reaction mass. You can crack it to oxygen and hydrogen with a platinum catalyst and UV radiation from the sun (pretty strong out there). That gives you ample thrust and reaction mass, plenty of air and water, ablative shielding, ice shielding for larger reactors and surplus hydrogen that's sure to be useful for something. Start mining metals on the moon instead of hauling them up out of the Earth's gravity well and it won't be long before you are in a position to build spaceships like battleships instead of soda cans. Not to mention a stronger military position since any missile would stagger slowly up out of the gravity well on an extremely predictable arc, unable to dodge if you throw rocks at it and with several days notice. By contrast, if you were really annoyed, a 50 tonne rock would be an extinction event for the groundhogs. Who knows, maybe that's what happened 65 million years ago. PeterW -------------------- If you can spell and use correct grammar for your compiler, why should I tolerate less?
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It won't be long until it will be the 50th anniversary of landing on the Moon. The last landing was in 1972 and then we just seemed to give up. Recently everyone seems keen on going to Mars, which is a nice goal... eventually. Where is the my retirement home on the Moon? Low gravity would be great. No bugs, snakes or home-security salesmen. An afternoon's flying with artificial wings in the Big Dome to pass the time and then home to my relaxing chair in front of the holographic TV showing re-runs of cool, old Sci-Fi movies! I think we should get the moon-base(s) up and running before going to Mars. Buzz Aldrin agrees with me. What do you think?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Mars: A great place to raise your kids! In fact, it's not too warm and there's nobody to meddle with them. A working moonbase would be a more practical place to start though.