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What's So Terrible About Kids?
jmucchiello:
--- Quote from: Bluesummers on 08 Jan 2013, 12:29 ---If Congress ever got their act together, I'm sure we could apportion a higher budget for NASA to begin work on lunar colonies. But that's a big IF.
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Um, going to the moon and making friggin' colonies is a sure way to destroy the earth's ecosystem. The moon has NOTHING. Let me repeat that. The moon has NOTHING. No air, no water, no food, no building materials, NOTHING. All that stuff has to be torn out of the ground on earth and shipped to the moon. How much energy does it take to launch a ship carrying these material to the moon? Not just orbit, but to the moon, that's much farther away and it's not that simple to make sure all the supplies land next to each other. How often do you need to resupply a colony of 100 people? 1000 people? 10000 people? How many days worth of food and water and air do you think can be easily dumped on the moon in a single trip?
The carbon footprint of a man on the moon is astronomical. No one who is into conservation should want to put man on the moon.
Now the ice moons of Jupiter on the hand... At least there is water there. But the costs in terms of fuel and TIME are even worse than going to the moon. But at least there might be something there to help with the building of a colony.
DSL:
Might want to read up on the water studies and the feasibilty of manufacturing needed materials on site from regolith. In fact, that's one of the standard arguments for a presence on the moon in the first place: A supply base and staging area in a not-so-deep gravity well.
de_la_Nae:
I wasn't aware we had managed enough geological surveying to determine that the Moon's resources were too limited to be of use.
Very well, FURTHER INTO THE VOID! :mrgreen: 8-)
Bluesummers:
--- Quote from: jmucchiello on 08 Jan 2013, 14:29 ---Um, going to the moon and making friggin' colonies is a sure way to destroy the earth's ecosystem. The moon has NOTHING. Let me repeat that. The moon has NOTHING. No air, no water, no food, no building materials, NOTHING.
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Now the ice moons of Jupiter on the hand... At least there is water there. But the costs in terms of fuel and TIME are even worse than going to the moon. But at least there might be something there to help with the building of a colony.
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--- Quote from: de_la_Nae on 08 Jan 2013, 14:37 ---Very well, FURTHER INTO THE VOID! :mrgreen: 8-)
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Ugh...so depressing, the both of you... :psyduck:
de_la_Nae:
Well in my defense I meant the void of space, not the void of entropy and annihilation that constantly hangs over our heads as an ever-vigilant companion, keeping the pace with us as an amoral and uncaring universe slowly digests our hopes and dreams and selves, crushing us between its gears of the cold laws of science and the hopeless futility of striving to be more than the barest hint of a drop in the vast wellspring of time.
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