Bush to announced manned mission to Mars and permanent base on moon

[Sikander]

I think the money could be better spent right now improving our current environment. In the long run sure, but I don't want to see a vague program started for this right now.

[Jon Shafer]

This is definitely one of the coolest things I've heard lately.

[lightblue]

Would it not be possible, considering that the g forces needed to escape the moon (or moon orbit) are far lower, to create spaceships out of glass? Multishell, line it with lead to protect against radiation. And correct me if i am wrong, but isn't silicon a large part of solar panels? You could use those as a kind of solar sail to generate energy for propulsion to travel within Mars orbit perhaps...

I have read stuff about asteroids, but can't remeber the details. Would you not need to apply a fairly small amount of force to push an asteroid of orbit? Then I suppose they could be steered towards the earth in the same way as we now steer spacecrafts into orbit around other planets. Just need lander vehicles that will provide the thrusters (nuclear?).

Anyway as i am biologist/computer scientist, I might just be talking out of my arse

[Donegeal]

Originally posted by lightblue
Anyway as i am biologist/computer scientist, I might just be talking out of my arse

Wow!!

Originally posted by Trip
This is definitely one of the coolest things I've heard lately.

[lightblue]

Aye the biological skills needed to form proper consonants when talking through ones arse is immense

[Arrian]

More space exploration

Huge, costly manned missions + WoT + Iraq + Afganistan + an already massive deficit and an administration which has no intention of raising taxes = this is all talk and, I'd bet, no action. NASA will never actually be given the money necessary for this stuff.

-Arrian

[The Mad Monk]

Forget glass, think steel-reinforced concrete.

Seriously.

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Sikander


It's more polite to allow others the pleasure of pointing that out.

I have this horrible, horrible fear of criticism.

[Guynemer]

Cool! When we get it up and running, can we send Bush? And Rumsfeld? Cheney? Ashcroft? Wolfowitz?


That'd be peachy keen.

[Edan]

Originally posted by Guynemer
Cool! When we get it up and running, can we send Bush? And Rumsfeld? Cheney? Ashcroft? Wolfowitz?


That'd be peachy keen.

You want to unleash them on the martains?

What, do you want to start a War of the Worlds?

[Arrian]

No, they get to be on the 3rd ship, with the accountants and hairdressers...

[el freako]

Originally posted by Arrian
No, they get to be on the 3rd ship, with the accountants and hairdressers...

Will they need the missile shield to get past the mutant star goat?

[Elok]

So long as the man they send is Carrot Top, and they don't provide him with a radio, means of return, or an unduly large supply of oxygen, I'm cool with it. Other than that it's just a spiffy waste of money.

[:) Smiley]

Better uninhabited planets than Middle East nations.

First thing out of Dubya's mouth I agree with all these years. Let's hope for some more!

Oh yeah we've completed the Apollo Program for years already... why aren't we starting on our spaceship?

[darkgrendel]