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China lands Jade Rabbit robot rover on Moon

The US needs to get serious about space exploration. How about the space elevator idea? Why not start researching materials that could make it a reality? Just imagine the spinoffs that would be applied to buildings and vehicles right here on Earth. After we have a practical way to get materials into space cheaply, then let's start building a real spacecraft, one built in space and not designed to make planet fall, perhaps in the form of a wheel that could be spun to create artificial gravity. I'm not talking about a puny vehicle such as ply the Earth's tiny oceans, but a space craft that is measured in kilometers.

Why not? Who thought we would land men on the moon in 12 years back in '57 when the Soviets put the first man made object into space?
 
Elevator? How about a stairway to heaven!
 
Dittohead not! said:
The US needs to get serious about space exploration. How about the space elevator idea? Why not start researching materials that could make it a reality? Just imagine the spinoffs that would be applied to buildings and vehicles right here on Earth. After we have a practical way to get materials into space cheaply, then let's start building a real spacecraft, one built in space and not designed to make planet fall, perhaps in the form of a wheel that could be spun to create artificial gravity. I'm not talking about a puny vehicle such as ply the Earth's tiny oceans, but a space craft that is measured in kilometers.

Why not? Who thought we would land men on the moon in 12 years back in '57 when the Soviets put the first man made object into space?
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One thing tho.....Before I do any teleportation. I will let them work out the few hundreds of kinks first. Starfleet will be looking for volunteers.....just sayin. ;)
 
MMC said:
One thing tho.....Before I do any teleportation. I will let them work out the few hundreds of kinks first. Starfleet will be looking for volunteers.....just sayin. ;)
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Oh, a project like that would take a long time, no doubt. I'd probably never live to see it accomplished, but I'd live to see the practical applications of the technology.
 
Uh oh, a scan of the area shows that they have already started their spawning pool. Watch for zerg rush!!
 
Dittohead not! said:
Oh, a project like that would take a long time, no doubt. I'd probably never live to see it accomplished, but I'd live to see the practical applications of the technology.
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Myself.....I figure once I make it up to the heavens. They will tell me I didn't learn my lesson and didn't get on the path. That I will be returning......again.

I just hope I don't get sent back as Ferengi or Klingon this next time round. :lol:
 
Montecresto said:
Elevator? How about a stairway to heaven!
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Stairway to Heaven is a song. A space elevator is one of those creations of science fiction that could one day become science fact.

Space elevators:

Does this sound like the Sci-Fi Channel or a chapter out of Arthur C. Clarke's, Fountains of Paradise? Well, it's not. It is a real possibility -- a "space elevator" -- that researchers are considering today as a far-out space transportation system for the next century.
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MMC said:
Myself.....I figure once I make it up to the heavens. They will tell me I didn't learn my lesson and didn't get on the path. That I will be returning......again.

I just hope I don't get sent back as Ferengi or Klingon this next time round. :lol:
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If they send me back, I want to come as a pampered house cat.
 
Dittohead not! said:
If they land people there and drive around in a moon buggy, they'll only be a little over 40 years behind the US.
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Cardinal said:
Laugh all you like. Not just any asshole can land something on the moon, forty years behind or not.
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I know its easy to think of progress as some kind of linear line where you must achieve one thing before you achieve the next, China is not "40 years behind" because they have not yet landed men on the moon. Do you think the rocket had the same technology that launched the Saturn V forty years ago? Its more than about the ability to do so its about the will and desire to do it as well.

Seriously do you think that Canada is still living in the 1940s because they never detonated a nuclear weapon? I mean **** we did over 70 years ago, therefore their technology must have not advanced beyond that point yet.
 
Wiseone said:
I know its easy to think of progress as some kind of linear line where you must achieve one thing before you achieve the next, China is not "40 years behind" because they have not yet landed men on the moon. Do you think the rocket had the same technology that launched the Saturn V forty years ago? Its more than about the ability to do so its about the will and desire to do it as well.

Seriously do you think that Canada is still living in the 1940s because they never detonated a nuclear weapon? I mean **** we did over 70 years ago, therefore their technology must have not advanced beyond that point yet.
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I was being tongue in cheek about the forty year number, and their "will and desire to do it" was actually my point, which I specified when I said that China possesses more of what we decidedly lack with regards to space exploration: momentum.
 
Dittohead not! said:
If they send me back, I want to come as a pampered house cat.
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I don't think you can Regress.....besides wouldn't you want to be a pampered lil dog. Then you always get to sit in Momma's lap, put your snout between women's legs, and of course be carried with her wherever she may go.

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Food still gets put into the bowl my brutha. :2razz:
 
Dittohead not! said:
The US needs to get serious about space exploration. How about the space elevator idea? Why not start researching materials that could make it a reality? Just imagine the spinoffs that would be applied to buildings and vehicles right here on Earth. After we have a practical way to get materials into space cheaply, then let's start building a real spacecraft, one built in space and not designed to make planet fall, perhaps in the form of a wheel that could be spun to create artificial gravity. I'm not talking about a puny vehicle such as ply the Earth's tiny oceans, but a space craft that is measured in kilometers.

Why not? Who thought we would land men on the moon in 12 years back in '57 when the Soviets put the first man made object into space?
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It would meet with resistance because it would make the Earth look like a giant sperm cell.
 
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