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alfa1
eManym
On the surface of the moon the spacesuits would balloon out from the vacuum.
I understand that you are indicating my statement isn't true. Care to explain?
Scenario: July 1969:
For the first time, mankind steps onto the surface of the moon.
Neil: OMG!!1 my spacesuit is all ballooning out from the vacuum!!1! Now I have to bounce around really jerky. I cant believe that in the history of our space program, that we forgot to think of this.
Capcom: OMG you're right. How on earth did our spacesuit designers not think of the ballooning problem?
Neil: Yeah, I'm going to have a few nasty words to say to them when I get back.
Capcom: Its hard to figure out why we didnt notice this before.
edit on 15-12-2013 by alfa1 because: (no reason given)
Wirral Bagpuss
First off it is exciting to see that after 40 years the Human Race has landed on the Moon again, albeit a rover. But my concern is this. According to past research by others, were we warned not to go back to the Moon by ETs living there? If this is the case, as alledged to be, then how will ET react to the rover landing? They surely must know this is a precursor to another manned mission? And just WHY were we warned off the Moon anyway? Surely as the Moon is in our backyard, by right it is something belonging to Human Race. I also think we have a right to land on Mars and mine asteroids. I can however understand ET not wanting to reach out further than that until we change our ways and don't fight each other anymore.
Thoughts anyone? WIll China's landing lead to disclousure of some sort?
SayonaraJupiter
FYI, USA also has another, newer, laser based platform orbiting the moon... the LADEE... it's loaded with high-power lasers and experimental laser communications.
AliceBleachWhite
There's nothing preventing anyone from visiting the moon at any time by any means except the hurdles of Engineering and Physics as well as the costs involved in managing them.
AliceBleachWhite
The whole "We were warned" thing is just part of the UFO/Alien Mythology that's grown up around all the charlatanism and snake oil salesmen than have been eagerly gobbled down as gospel by over-willing believers.
The US had several missions to the Moon and if there was indeed such a warning, it'd be expected that only one mission would have ever landed. That's not the case.
There's nothing preventing anyone from visiting the moon at any time by any means except the hurdles of Engineering and Physics as well as the costs involved in managing them.
AliceBleachWhite
The whole "We were warned" thing is just part of the UFO/Alien Mythology that's grown up around all the charlatanism and snake oil salesmen than have been eagerly gobbled down as gospel by over-willing believers.
The US had several missions to the Moon and if there was indeed such a warning, it'd be expected that only one mission would have ever landed. That's not the case.
There's nothing preventing anyone from visiting the moon at any time by any means except the hurdles of Engineering and Physics as well as the costs involved in managing them.
Zaphod58
reply to post by southbeach
Not for lack of money? The NASA annual budget is a tiny fraction of what it was during the Apollo timeframe.
Aleister
reply to post by Wirral Bagpuss
To paraphrase Woody Allen (an alien himself), "I wouldn't want to walk on any planetoid who's resident aliens would allow me to walk on it." What alien in their right mind would live on the moon? It's no place to raise kids, to get a quality education, and its cold and dusty and those stones underfoot don't make living on it easy.
Bottom line, no aliens, just dust.
Zaphod58
reply to post by southbeach
Because once the moon missions stopped there was no interest in going back, and there was no reason for the massive budget. The attitude became, and still is, "fix Earth first, then bother with space".
Zaphod58
reply to post by southbeach
And 90% of people don't care about space and dumping money into the space program. If you ask them to name two stars they can't do it. As them about tidal locking, and they'll look at you with a blank stare like you're stupid. They don't care if our "destiny" is to spread out among the stars, or if humanity is doomed if we're hit with an ELE. They just know that we have enough problems to deal with right now, and we should be spending our money here on earth first. They'd be perfectly happy to see NASA completely eliminated and disbanded.
Zaphod58
reply to post by southbeach
The $2.3 Trillion wasn't missing. It wasn't accounted for at the time, it has been since.
The public, who is supposed to be the support for NASA doesn't want us in space.
Prove that we're quarantined. Other than YouTube videos and pure speculation.
In fiscal 1999, a defense audit found that about $2.3 trillion of balances, transactions and adjustments were inadequately documented. These "unsupported" transactions do not mean the department ultimately cannot account for them, she advised, but that tracking down needed documents would take a long time. Auditors, she said, might have to go to different computer systems, to different locations or access different databases to get information.