I liked Obama before this!! Obama to cancel Moon mission
The cost per pound to supply a moon base just isn't practical at this time, as Inventor said $20000 per lbs is rather expensive.
Nasa has other means to explore a dry airless world such as using vehicles of the type used on mars, it would be a better way to gather data on resources, as the moon is even more hostile to life then mars. We will eventually have a base on the moon, but not until we have a cheaper way to get off the earth.
The Moon's rotation and revolution periods are almost equal, so essentially only one side faces earth and the other side faces away. Humans never saw the far side of the moon until a soviet moon orbiter took pictures of it and sent them back to earth.
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I'm not against NASA or space exploration, but is there any point at all in sending humans to the Moon again? Are they going to do anything robots can't do for a fraction of the cost, and faster and better? Colonisation is a red herring; the Sahara desert, Antarctica, etc are all much easier to colonise than any place outside Earth (we haven't built self-sustaining colonies even on Antarctica, there is no real-world evidence that we could do so on the Moon), even without taking bone density loss into account. Talk of the creativity of humans supposedly making manned exploration better is laughable, as robots can be controlled by humans on Earth. Surely unmanned exploration is 'faster, cheaper, better'?
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OMFG!
Well that sunuvabitch.
Why in the hell was he elected in the first place?
I don't how much I can take with this Obummer.
I heard he's also a socialist.
Commie bastard!!
Seriously aren't there worse things to worry about?
It's as if Obama is now the scapegoat for everything now...
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Oh and for the record to all here I think private enterprise's would be the best to succeed as has been said before they meet deadlines and mostly b/c it wouldn't be the government controlling all travel. It would open outer space one day to everyone. It's all just a dream for my grandchildren to see or maybe theirs but one day...
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It's as if Obama is now the scapegoat for everything now...
The president of the united states is a position that has evolved to serve the role of a scapegoat.
I'm more deep sea than deep space, myself.
King of Kaboom: I doubt space travel will be advanced enough in time to be a practical solution to overpopulaton. I wish people would just learn to have less sex, but that's doubtful. still, I feel it's more likely than space travel solving the problem.
heh. welcome to easter island earth.
It's as if Obama is now the scapegoat for everything now...
The president of the united states is a position that has evolved to serve the role of a scapegoat.
I'm more deep sea than deep space, myself.
King of Kaboom: I doubt space travel will be advanced enough in time to be a practical solution to overpopulaton. I wish people would just learn to have less sex, but that's doubtful. still, I feel it's more likely than space travel solving the problem.
heh. welcome to easter island earth.
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But Mankind cannot live in the cradle forever....
Well, as the Chinese have all our money, and they are going to the moon, I guess our money at least is going to the moon.
500 years ago the Portuguese were the leading seafaring nation, exploring the world. Then they stopped.
Now we are the Portuguese of space.
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Space Sex does seem the unstated reason driving the space program, nothing else to do and no one around.
First there is getting there, then the check for lunch is $3,000. A small room, $10,000 a night.
Ten days, $250,000, makes the surface resorts sound cheap.
I think dumping excess population in the ocean is cost effective, and we have the means.
Yes, you read it correctly, Obama is planning to cancel the mission to the moon.
I am so angry about this, I have decided to withhold my support from him in the next election, I am going to vote for the Green Party, or if I am especially evil, the Republicans. But Obama has just lost my support.
We need to have a strong space exploration program, it is our only future.
I was actually annoyed about this until I heard his reasoning. He says, and rightly so, that our future in space is not going to come from the type of mission he just canceled, and that the cost of that mission would be much better suited for research.
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Yes, you read it correctly, Obama is planning to cancel the mission to the moon.
I am so angry about this, I have decided to withhold my support from him in the next election, I am going to vote for the Green Party, or if I am especially evil, the Republicans. But Obama has just lost my support.
We need to have a strong space exploration program, it is our only future.
I was actually annoyed about this until I heard his reasoning. He says, and rightly so, that our future in space is not going to come from the type of mission he just canceled, and that the cost of that mission would be much better suited for research.
I was disappointed because I thought that this could indicate that there would be no human exploration of space for the foreseeable future. If you want to plan any kind of human space exploration in the future, you certainly don't want too many key people within NASA such as scientists and engineers to lose their jobs because due to Constellation's cancellation. That's partly why I tried to revive my thread in the science section. In order to discuss this issue. The new plan isn't even fleshed out yet. It seems as though they want to follow the "Flexible Path" option described in the Augustine Report.
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