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

[Drake Tungsten]

Yeah, more corporatism'll drive America at a tremendous pace into an economic slump as in the case of Japan.

No offense, but that's a pretty ****ty linkage right there.

[Ramo]

It sounded better before I tried to write it down (had to delete the "forward" to prevent the sentence from becoming even more convoluted)...

[The Mad Monk]

Didn't hear the speech, but I did read the transcript -- I'm feeling pretty pumped.

[dannubis]

Originally posted by Chemical Ollie


:LOL: Will a golf ball on moon hit hard enough enter orbit? And if it comes back down, you will probably have a very long walk to fetch it.

some time ago i had calculate this for an examination question. IIRC you would better duck, because it will hit the back of your head.

[Ned]

Well it is said that Alan Shepard hit three golf balls while playing the course on the Moon. He never found the balls.

They must have gone into the ruff -- on Earth.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by dannubis


some time ago i had calculate this for an examination question. IIRC you would better duck, because it will hit the back of your head.

You can hit a golf ball at 1.68 km/s (velocity of circular orbit at lunar surface)?

In actuality, the golf balls would travel ~10 times as far as on earth, assuming equal swings. Factor of 6 from 1.63 m/s/s acceleration as opposed to 9.81 m/s/s
and adding an additional 50% for aerodynamic drag.

[KrazyHorse]

benefit from curved surface of moon would be insignificant at that distance. would add possiblyan additional 20-30 yards (based on a couple of rough estimates of angle of stroke)

[KrazyHorse]

Not even a high-powered rifle bullet has sufficient muzzle velocity to go into lunar orbit.

Almost, though.

[Ned]

One of the most interesting aspects of the "plan" is that NASA seems to want to launch missions to Mars from the Moon.

[Tingkai]

Sh!t, this is one of the times when I wish I was wrong. I predicted that Bush would screw Nasa, and dammit I was right.

Bush says "I wanna go to Mars and the Moon" and what does he do: promises to throw a billion dollars to Nasa (promises, promises), cuts the shuttle program and tells Nasa to re-organise its budget.

A billion dollars won't take the US to the moon, let alone mars.

Dammit.

Now you all know that I'm pretty critical of the US, but I got to give them credit for doing a great job with the Mars mission. This is something the Americans can be really proud of.

You won't hear this very often from me, but way to go USA. Go USA Go.

[Skanky Burns]

One of the more interesting aspects of the plan is the part where they mention the moon has large amounts of hydrogen3 that could be used "for power generation". Did someone finally get fusion working and forget to announce it?

[Chemical Ollie]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
One of the more interesting aspects of the plan is the part where they mention the moon has large amounts of hydrogen3 that could be used "for power generation". Did someone finally get fusion working and forget to announce it?

Perhaps the real intention is mine it, bring it back to earth, and use for nuclear weapons production?

But I'm no physicist.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
One of the more interesting aspects of the plan is the part where they mention the moon has large amounts of hydrogen3 that could be used "for power generation". Did someone finally get fusion working and forget to announce it?

Huh? Where did you get this? I recall the president saying that it might be possible to manufacture rocket fuel on the moon. Is this part of that? H3 could be used as fuel for nuclear rockets.

[The Mad Monk]

Not hydrogen 3, helium 3. a deuterium/He3 mix is supposed to be an easier fuel to use than the deuterium/tritium mix.

[Skanky Burns]

Newspaper I read at lunch yesterday, so no link unfortunately.
I stand corrected, but my point still stands - they haven't got fusion working yet.