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Originally posted by zorgon
Originally posted by Chorlton
BTW do you have any Scientific, Engineering or Geophysics qualifications at all?
Yes... Chemistry, Geology and Electronics...
Enough to recognize mining on the moon
And you?
Originally posted by Chorlton But I dont need a degree to identify fuzzy geology
Originally posted by Zenagain
LOL....From the mouths of babes.... Ya know? The kids got a point. My big problem with the whole "People are on the moon mining" thing is this. Why not let people know? I mean, wouldn't it be a huge feather in our national cap if we had had people continuously on the moon for some 40 odd years?
Where are the launchs happening?
Do you realize how much infrastructure would have to be boosted into orbit then ferried to the moon to build a base for last Human occupation?
It just......doesn't add up.
Originally posted by StellarX
I'm not for secrecy but i presume you can see how those who want to keep the American economy going would not like such a 'fact' exposed...
Where are the launchs happening?
Why presume there are launches happening? Have you ever heard of anti gravity craft and who do you think operates the things we see flying around at such tremendous speeds? Do you believe in aliens and that they have nothing better to do than fly around and kidnap Americans? Wouldn't it make more sense for the American government to do that sort of thing?
Do you realize how much infrastructure would have to be boosted into orbit then ferried to the moon to build a base for last Human occupation?
Well interestingly the US government trough NASA could have transported 2.2 + million pounds to the Moon by allocating the shuttle budget and design cost to continued operations of the Saturn V's. With the Pentagon budget missing a few trillion dollars isn't it rather silly to argue that this could not be done for a lack of resources?
Method of Delivering Lunar Generated Fluid
to Earth Orbit Using an External Tank
Publication number: US5092545
Publication date: 1992-03-03
Inventor: BUTTERFIELD ANSEL J (US); GOSLEE JOHN W (US)
Applicant: NASA (US)
ABSTRACT
A method and apparatus are provided for delivering lunar generated fluid to Earth orbit from lunar orbit. Transport takes place in an external tank of a shuttle which has been suitably outfitted in Earth orbit for reusable travel between Earth orbit and a lunar orbit. The outfitting of the external tank includes the adding of an engine, an electrical system, a communication system, a guidance system, an aerobraking device, and a plurality of interconnected fluid storage tanks to the hydrogen and oxygen tanks of the external tank. The external tank is then propelled to lunar orbit the first time using Earth based propellant. In lunar orbit, the storage tanks are filled with the lunar generated fluid with the remainder tank volumes filled with lunar generated liquid oxygen and hydrogen which serve as propellants for returning the tank to Earth orbit where the fluid is off-loaded. The remaining lunar generated oxygen and hydrogen is then sufficient to return the external tank to lunar orbit so that a subsequent cycle of fluid delivery is repeated. A space station in a higher Earth orbit is preferably used to outfit the external tank, and a lunar node in lunar orbit is used to store and transfer the fluid and liquid oxygen and hydrogen to the external tank. The lunar generated fluid is preferably 3He.
Originally posted by Zenagain
And for the Saturn 5 program? I have no idea why they decided to scrap it and go with the Shuttle program. I suppose I could research it a bit and find out though. Just off the top of my head, I'd guess it had something to do with the need for telecommunications and when it comes right down to it, a Saturn 5 is a bit wasteful to put a satelite in orbit.....
# 1.6 CAPABILITIES DEVELOPED
The development of large boosters, rendezvous techniques and manoeuvrable space vehicles, all required for the Lunar Expedition, will also provide a capability for many new and advanced space achievements. For example, the Space Launching System which will boost 134,000 pounds to escape velocity will boost approximately 350,000 pounds into a 300 nm orbit, or will launch a manned vehicle on a pass around either Mars or Venus.
Originally posted by ZenagainInstead, Russia is a poor country fairly rapidly grasping again for it's Communist roots because it couldn't make the change to a Democracy.
Progress M-61 Docks at Space Station
August 6, 2007 7:59AM
The Progress M-61 ship delivered oxygen, water, food and scientific equipment to the station's crew -- Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov, and U.S. astronaut Clayton Anderson. The cargo ship also brought two spare computers to back up those that failed in June, briefly disabling oxygen production on the space station.
Progress-M 60...
...is a Russian automatic cargo carrier that was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket from Baikonur at 03:25 UT on 12 May 2007.
It carried 45 kg of air, 419 kg of water, and 1.4 tons of dry cargo, 241 kg of fresh fruits and vegetables, 136 kg of medical equipment.
It docked automatically with the Zvezda module of the ISS at 05:10 UT on 15 May 2007.(docked on the fourth day) Four days to reach the ISS? There is no explanation for this behavior. - Jack Arneson - Pegasus
No one associated with the auction in the United States is sure exactly which Buran it is that the potential winning bidder will take possession of, said Willie Whyte, chief executive officer of Los Angeles-based First FX, Inc., a company that helps people manage online trading on the Foreign Exchange.
Admitting he wouldn't know one space shuttle from another, Whyte said all he knows is that the Buran to be auctioned has never flown in space. But he does have a lot confidence in his source for the hardware.
Originally posted by Zenagain
Where to start? First off. If the Russians had particle beam weaponry mounted on the moon that could tear up the U.S.,
(And by extension, any other country) we all would be living under a Russian/Soviet hegemony.
Instead, Russia is a poor country fairly rapidly grasping again for it's Communist roots
because it couldn't make the change to a Democracy.
As for that concept of UFO's as Human made craft, or more to the point secret U.S. craft, I'll point out something to you. When the SR-71 was still a secret craft, did anyone see it making low level flights over massivly populated ares?
Did you see B-2's, F-117's or U2's making low level flights over, say, New York? No. When aircraft are "secret", you do everything in your power to "keep" them secret until you have to reveal their presence.
And for the Saturn 5 program? I have no idea why they decided to scrap it and go with the Shuttle program.
I suppose I could research it a bit and find out though. Just off the top of my head, I'd guess it had something to do with the need for telecommunications and when it comes right down to it, a Saturn 5 is a bit wasteful to put a satelite in orbit....
Second, to paraphrase Dr. George Mueller at a NASA history conference held in Washington in recent years, we “got the shuttle we have today from the ‘Bureau of the Budget Design Bureau’” that NASA did not want and that was not cheaper than Saturn 5.
www.space.com...
Originally posted by zorgon
Don't be so quick to count the Russians out... And don't worry about those beam weapons... they are on our side... always have been... the cold war was a front to gain control and money...
Originally posted by StellarX
I can agree with everything but this very common misconception. What type of 'secret' information can you present me with that proves who's activities we are observing on the Moon?
Originally posted by zorgon
Ummm hmmmm tough question... I suppose you just can't take my word for it huh?
No? Well if I told you it wouldn't be 'secret' any more...??
Okay.. ya got me... I am not ready to reveal that data yet... but I'm working on it...
I guess it would be too weird if we agreed on everything
Originally posted by J.Smit
Then again, they say the U.S.A.'s national debt is the highest in the world...
Originally posted by StellarX
And NO, there were no aliens involved!
And you better make it convincing as geopolitical events on Earth do not seem to be suggesting of a American moon base bristling with weapons.
Originally posted by zorgon
I'm there with you on the Aliens...
Sigh... So just who am I going to convince? The skeptics? Not unless I give them a ride in that anti gravity ship John's dad was working on and dropped them off at the mine
The believers? LOL they are already convinced
But its true I am NOT finding a lot of weapons, but a lot of Robotic space cargo ships from both sides of the curtain!
The game has two campaigns, the American campaign and the Russian campaign. The game takes place in an alternate version of the 1960s in which the United States and the Soviet Union use alien technology to wage a secret war across the solar system, fighting for control of the rare resource bio-metal.
The game starts in 1957 when a group of meteorites falls near the Bering Strait, which both the Americans and the Russians are able to recover. In these meteorites they find "bio-metal", and discover that with it they can build vehicles with amazing features, such as the ability to hover. Both the Soviets and Americans send forces to the Moon; the Apollo program is revealed to be a cover-up for the massive American military operation there. The American space military force is called the NSDF, for National Space Defense Force, and the Soviets' is named the CCA, for Cosmos Colonist Army (However, manuals for the earlier version of the game call the CCA the 'Communist Cosmonaut Army'). The Soviets force the Americans off the Moon by destroying the main American outpost there, called Eagle's Nest 1. The NSDF relocates to Mars, only to discover that the CCA is already there. An alien artifact is discovered there by both sides, presumably by the same race who created the bio-metal. A weapons factory built by this civilization is also found on Mars. It is revealed that the race in question called themselves the Cthonians, and lived on a planet called Icarus that occupied the orbit of what is now the asteroid belt. According to the game, Greek myths were based on visitations of Earth by the Cthonians.
en.wikipedia.org...
Delivering tons of food, even a 1/2 ton of fresh fruits and vegetables..
I AM finding a huge build up of Space Command... maybe if we did have to leave the moon in a hurry, we are gearing up to do what America does best Go Kick Butt!!
Its funny that the main stream news shows the Shuttle at ISS but neglects the fact that a Progress automated cargo ship from Russia was docking at the same time Progree 61 launched Aug 6 Endeavor Aug 8
Just how many vessels CAN dock at the ISS at the same time?
And just where do you find 700 Navy Officers that are "Space Experience" to head up a Cadre stood up in 2001?
Originally posted by StellarX
And just where do you find 700 Navy Officers that are "Space Experience" to head up a Cadre stood up in 2001?
I have no idea but I suppose that even thought that British hacker was supposedly quite high his reports on a list of American space ships may well be accurate.
Originally posted by StellarX
But what if there were Americans on the Moon in the Sixties but they lost a few battle's in space and on Earth against the Russians? Would you want to know that the Russians are currently occupying the Moon and operating dozens of Particle beam weapons that would turn the US into swiss cheese in the next world war?
Originally posted by Melbourne_Militia
Titled "High Frontier"
Subtitle "There is a defense against Nuclear War"
by General Daniel O.Graham
Former Deputy Director of the CIA
It was written in 1983, published by Tom Doherty Associates,Inc.
8-10 West 36th Street, New York, New York, 10018
By Newt Gingrich
" . . . He who Controls Space may well control the future of Mankind. We have a chance, through High Frontier, using existing technology to develop a space program that is absolutely necessary to our survival and that will give us a chance to move past the Russians to assure our own nation and freedom a future on this planet"