Japanese moon base

9th Engineer · 08-09-2006, 11:24 AM

I'm not reserving tickets just yet, but does anyone else pine for the days when American companies had the hutzpa to plan stuff like this?

http://science.howstuffworks.com/moon-base-news.htm

glatt · 08-09-2006, 11:38 AM

Maybe Japan can plan moonshots because they aren't throwing billions and billions of dollars down a bottomless rat's hole in Iraq.

Just sayin'...

Sundae · 08-09-2006, 12:01 PM

You say moonshots, I think goatse. I'm just not scientifically minded.

Good for them if they do it I say. If it was suggested in Britain the cost would be immediately calculated in hospitals (i.e. how many hospitals you could build for the same money) and squashed by the tabloids.

9th Engineer · 08-09-2006, 01:30 PM

Something along those lines would also happen here. Iraq is now just the most popular focus of media bitching, if we had never gone in there we still wouldn't be planning a moon mission. Just refer to the Homeless thread to witness what some people think is a better use of our money.

glatt · 08-09-2006, 01:39 PM

Well, that's true enough, since we never budgeted for Iraq.

Elspode · 08-09-2006, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

If it was suggested in Britain the cost would be immediately calculated in hospitals (i.e. how many hospitals you could build for the same money) and squashed by the tabloids.

Just take your health care system private. No one will ever mention hospitals again, because they won't be able to afford to use them.

barefoot serpent · 08-09-2006, 04:34 PM

Moon schmoon... we be headed fer Mars!

Elspode · 08-09-2006, 04:41 PM

Yeah, but we're planning on raping and pillaging the Moon on the way.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-11-2006, 01:33 AM

If they are serious about this, there are a shitload of engineers knowledgeable in the whys and wherefores of space travel, in this country. As luck would have it, most are also underemployed, too.

Urbane Guerrilla · 08-20-2006, 02:07 AM

Elsp, Elsp, that is overly geocentric thinking, and not appropriate to the lunar sphere. On Earth we must worry about our natural life-support system: our biosphere. Show me a lunar biosphere. If you can't, quit thinking like a Terran flatlander, eh?

One thing you cannot do is pollute a vacuum. Manufacture in space doesn't pollute the air or the water, and it offers, free for the taking, a continuous flow of energy and all the hard vacuum you'll ever want.

Tonchi · 08-20-2006, 03:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Elspode

Yeah, but we're planning on raping and pillaging the Moon on the way.

They found oil?????

footfootfoot · 08-20-2006, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Tonchi

They found oil?????

DanaC · 08-20-2006, 03:59 PM

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Something along those lines would also happen here. Iraq is now just the most popular focus of media bitching, if we had never gone in there we still wouldn't be planning a moon mission. Just refer to the Homeless thread to witness what some people think is a better use of our money.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." Dwight D. Eisenhower

Tonchi · 08-20-2006, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

One thing you cannot do is pollute a vacuum. Manufacture in space doesn't pollute the air or the water....

Methinks UG has forgotten that it is already a serious concern of our space program that so much "space garbage" is orbiting our planet in that vacuum that a collision with some of it could take out the Space Shuttle. There is not just Gene Rodenberry's ashes up there, it is every booster rocket part, dead satellites, and innumerable other debris far enough out of the gravity which would bring it flaming back down. Everything we launch into space increases this form of pollution, this stuff can't be mapped and it will stay there forever.

DanaC · 08-20-2006, 04:17 PM

UG will forget anything that is inconvenient to his current stance :P

08-09-2006, 11:24 AM	#1
9th Engineer Bioengineer and aspiring lawer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 872	Japanese moon base I'm not reserving tickets just yet, but does anyone else pine for the days when American companies had the hutzpa to plan stuff like this? http://science.howstuffworks.com/moon-base-news.htm __________________ The most valuable renewable resource is stupidity.

08-09-2006, 12:01 PM	#3
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	You say moonshots, I think goatse. I'm just not scientifically minded. Good for them if they do it I say. If it was suggested in Britain the cost would be immediately calculated in hospitals (i.e. how many hospitals you could build for the same money) and squashed by the tabloids. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

08-09-2006, 01:30 PM	#4
9th Engineer Bioengineer and aspiring lawer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 872	Something along those lines would also happen here. Iraq is now just the most popular focus of media bitching, if we had never gone in there we still wouldn't be planning a moon mission. Just refer to the Homeless thread to witness what some people think is a better use of our money. __________________ The most valuable renewable resource is stupidity.

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barefoot serpent go ahead, abbrev. it Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 2,623	Moon schmoon... we be headed fer Mars! __________________ Chooses rowing vs. wading

08-09-2006, 04:41 PM	#8
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	Yeah, but we're planning on raping and pillaging the Moon on the way. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

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glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Maybe Japan can plan moonshots because they aren't throwing billions and billions of dollars down a bottomless rat's hole in Iraq. Just sayin'...

08-09-2006, 01:39 PM	#5
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Well, that's true enough, since we never budgeted for Iraq.

08-11-2006, 01:33 AM	#9
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	If they are serious about this, there are a shitload of engineers knowledgeable in the whys and wherefores of space travel, in this country. As luck would have it, most are also underemployed, too. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-20-2006, 02:07 AM	#10
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Elsp, Elsp, that is overly geocentric thinking, and not appropriate to the lunar sphere. On Earth we must worry about our natural life-support system: our biosphere. Show me a lunar biosphere. If you can't, quit thinking like a Terran flatlander, eh? One thing you cannot do is pollute a vacuum. Manufacture in space doesn't pollute the air or the water, and it offers, free for the taking, a continuous flow of energy and all the hard vacuum you'll ever want. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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