Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:43 pm
The moon would offer some advantages as a building site. Assuming a fairly large construction facility, you may be able to produce some materials from lunar soil. Especially if you can mine fuel from the moon, you would save a bundle over having to send up fuel from earth. The moon would offer decent platform for building large structures without needing to construct a scaffolding or use lots of fuel maneuvering assemblies into place. Also, the moon is in a higher orbit of earth, so launching from the moon puts you at a higher energy relative to the earth's gravity well. Not sure if that would make up for having to leave the moon's surface, though, but I don't feel like calculating it. (The equations are pretty simple.)
Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:47 pm
Moon base would have other uses, I think it's implied. Supposedly there's ice(water), if that's the case, then you have oxygen and hydrogen, life support and fuel. Besides, for the humans who have to build things and live there, a little gravity is a useful thing, medically and practically.
Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:54 pm
besides, a moonbase is frickin cooler than sharks with laser beams attached to their heads!
Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:29 pm
Yes but as soon as the moon base is completed, some nuclear fuel will asplode and the moon will be kicked out of orbit. Then it will shoot through the galaxy in a straight line at incredible speed, amazingly meeting a new civilization about every week, but all those aliens will look fake and be incredibly boring and nothing interesting will ever come out of these encounters.
Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:33 pm
Originally posted by Colonel Ingus
Alternative energy car huh? Maroon.
You would have sounded at least halfway intelligent if you said
Colonel Ingus, you don't post much anymore but each of your posts includes an insult.
Please make it the other way around.
Fri Dec 16, 2005 11:12 pm
Originally posted by cavalierlwt
besides, a moonbase is frickin cooler than sharks with laser beams attached to their heads!
Blasphemy! Nothing is cooler then sharks with laser beams attached to their heads, unless (thought bubble) ferrets with laser beams attached to their heads!
Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:40 pm
Originally posted by Chacal
Colonel Ingus, you don't post much anymore but each of your posts includes an insult.
Please make it the other way around.
I spend too much time talking to complete idiots on some sports boards. You have no idea how demeaning that is.
I liked the sharks with laser beam comment, can't top that!
Besides! I am in a good mood today! Saturday night I got to watch my Minnesota Wild beat the Montreal Canadiens!
Sheesh! They can't even spell Canadian correctly!
Now where's that political thread at? I can;t start those but as long as someone else did.....
Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:27 pm
Originally posted by Colonel Ingus
I spend too much time talking to complete idiots on some sports boards. You have no idea how demeaning that is.
I liked the sharks with laser beam comment, can't top that!
Besides! I am in a good mood today! Saturday night I got to watch my Minnesota Wild beat the Montreal Canadiens!
Sheesh! They can't even spell Canadian correctly!
Now where's that political thread at? I can;t start those but as long as someone else did.....
Here it is !!!
http://forums.powervs.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=268841#post268841
Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:42 pm
Must resist.... resolve failing.....
Here's some interesting links for recent space news.
Pluto fly-by ready for launch. About a 9-9 1/2 year in transit time mission. We won't be getting plutonian close-ups until 2015! Stupid space!
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-12-16T222121Z_01_KNE680462_RTRUKOC_0_US-SPACE-PLUTO.xml&archived=False
Russains looking to build a hypersonic scramjet.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/379/16640_aerospace.html
This one isn't anything really cutting edge. It's believed the USAF has a working scramjet aircraft that's obviously not highly publicized flying out of the "new" "Area 51" in Utah.
Here's some interesting links for recent space news.
Pluto fly-by ready for launch. About a 9-9 1/2 year in transit time mission. We won't be getting plutonian close-ups until 2015! Stupid space!
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-12-16T222121Z_01_KNE680462_RTRUKOC_0_US-SPACE-PLUTO.xml&archived=False
Russains looking to build a hypersonic scramjet.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/379/16640_aerospace.html
This one isn't anything really cutting edge. It's believed the USAF has a working scramjet aircraft that's obviously not highly publicized flying out of the "new" "Area 51" in Utah.
Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:44 pm
scramjets are interesting, I'll be interested in seeing how they get passed that high minimum speed restriction. I love the idea of an engine with basically no moving parts.
Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:59 pm
Most of the ideas on scramjets cheat and get around that by go sub-orbital. Let the Earth's rotation do the speeding for you.