Do you think we're going to the moon?

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-01-23 10:46pm

I say we aren't, what do you think?

P.S. Don't say we are because of the political promises, that didn't matter with Nixon, and Bush Sr.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2004-01-23 10:51pm

*Holds onto the Castration Knife*

Thanks for reminding me of the loss of our pioneer spirit and drive...

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-01-23 11:05pm

I think so. New funding and NASA reshuffling will be costly to undo. I think congress will just leave it be.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-01-23 11:08pm

Singing:

Flying to the moon
With a rocket
Shoved up my butt

And should`nt you post your poll at the yahoo group?

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-01-23 11:11pm

Montcalm wrote:Singing:

Flying to the moon
With a rocket
Shoved up my butt

And should`nt you post your poll at the yahoo group?

I'll put it up there later, but we never seemed to get many people there before...

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2004-01-23 11:17pm

Well 20 members is a good beggining i saw groups that are there for almost 4 year and noone has ever joined,plus i think i`ll post more babes images to attracte the preverts we have here.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-01-23 11:57pm

I'd like to think we can, but there's no reason to get us there in the meantime.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-01-24 12:00am

Is there any mineral wealth to be had on the moon?

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2004-01-24 12:03am

Montcalm wrote:Well 20 members is a good beggining i saw groups that are there for almost 4 year and noone has ever joined,plus i think i`ll post more babes images to attracte the preverts we have here.

Where's this again?

Oh and here's something sort of on topic.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-01-24 12:05am

IIRC, George Bush Sr. talked about going to Mars and a lot of other big flag-waving stuff back in 1988, and that went nowhere.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-01-24 12:37am

Darth Wong wrote:IIRC, George Bush Sr. talked about going to Mars and a lot of other big flag-waving stuff back in 1988, and that went nowhere.

Nixon said the same thing with a follow up moon mission, and a Mars Mission.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-01-24 12:41am

I think the Moon is likely (although far from certain) although I really doubt we end up going to Mars in the near future.

mauldooku · Post by **mauldooku** » 2004-01-24 12:46am

No way. The lack of public support is deadly to any space mission, and there's not much support for this one...

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-01-24 12:50am

No we are not going back to the moon in the near future. We have the capability but we lack the vital public support and political will for such a mission.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-01-24 01:26am

We shouldn't be going back to the moon, since we've already gone there more than enough times.

Mars!!!!

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-01-24 01:29am

Going to Mars will require infrastructure support from Moon based. It is cheaper to build a spaceship in moon orbit.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2004-01-24 01:37am

No way; at least not under Bush.

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2004-01-24 01:49am

StarshipTitanic wrote:No way; at least not under Bush.

I don't seriously think Bush is any more or less likely to than most presidents. In this day and age we don't have a Cold War race to drive things on so we do nothing. There's been a lot of talk about space programs by both sides but it always falls through we they get asked to pony up the cash.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-01-24 02:05am

evilcat4000 wrote:Going to Mars will require infrastructure support from Moon based. It is cheaper to build a spaceship in moon orbit.

NO!

IT!

IS!

NOT!

It's really a suprise that this same thing came up here and another BBS I populate on the same day.

Bob McDob · Post by **Bob McDob** » 2004-01-24 02:13pm

Darth Wong wrote:IIRC, George Bush Sr. talked about going to Mars and a lot of other big flag-waving stuff back in 1988, and that went nowhere.

Junior Bush's plans are a lot more concrete than Bush Sr.'s ever were, though.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2004-01-24 02:23pm

I'd say that if Bush is re-elected then we'll return to the moon. I don't think that a manned Mars mission is foreseeable in the immediate future.

The Last Rebel · Post by **The Last Rebel** » 2004-01-24 03:30pm

Show me the money.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2004-01-24 03:40pm

I doubt the feasability of this and I think we shouldn't go to Mars as it would be a BAD idea for Bush to get his hands on Shadowtech.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-01-25 01:04am

Master of Ossus wrote:I'd say that if Bush is re-elected then we'll return to the moon. I don't think that a manned Mars mission is foreseeable in the immediate future.

Indeed. A manned Mars mission would not be viable untill key technologies like nuclear propulsion is developed.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-01-25 02:35am

evilcat4000 wrote:Indeed. A manned Mars mission would not be viable untill key technologies like nuclear propulsion is developed.

Don't you mean put into use, considering that we had 500MW fission rockets since the 60s.. ??

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