[Technology] Back to the Moon by 2024

[A1X]

Great that we're going back to the moon. Maybe someone can retrieve the ball from Ulloa's penalty.

 

[Brovion]

I think you are all very cynical.
We all know this is by far the most cost effective way of inventing new substances to stop food sticking to our cookware.

Ha! Good bit of trivia there! I do remember a comedian doing a routine in the 1970s where he riffed on inventions and where they'd come from, and the last bit was something like "... and all that money they spent on the Apollo programme and what did mankind get out of it? Non-stick frying pans!"

 

[Bold Seagull]

I bow down to your superior Trekkie knowledge. I feel a bit silly now

No you feel like you're not a nerd!

 

[Chicken Run]

I'm amazed that nobody has been along with the "nobody's been there yet" CT. #hatstand

They would have but those pesky Japs ruined that when they sent an unmanned probe up there and came back with pictures of the Apollo 12 landing site debris field and the part of the LEM that stayed there!!!

 

[Goldstone1976]

Indeed. Back in the 1960s just getting there was the aim. Now it has to be for a bigger purpose and as the first stage of something, not just an end in itself.

The bigger purpose should, imo, be as part of a longer-term plan to send humans to Mars.

 

[Brovion]

They would have but those pesky Japs ruined that when they sent an unmanned probe up there and came back with pictures of the Apollo 12 landing site debris field and the part of the LEM that stayed there!!!

If you're stupid/gullible enough to believe the moon landings were faked (six times) then it's only a 'small step for a moron' (to coin a phrase) to believe that was faked as well. Indeed isn't there now an entire 'space is fake' theory? Takes it to a logical conclusion.

 

[LlcoolJ]

Indeed. Back in the 1960s just getting there was the aim. Now it has to be for a bigger purpose and as the first stage of something, not just an end in itself.

Cheese mining?

 

[LlcoolJ]

If you're stupid/gullible enough to believe the moon landings were faked (six times) then it's only a 'small step for a moron' (to coin a phrase) to believe that was faked as well. Indeed isn't there now an entire 'space is fake' theory? Takes it to a logical conclusion.

Well this guy has conclusively proved that the Earth is flat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RukEkPGUSbk

 

[Pavilionaire]

The Borg weren't a race, they appropriated other beings into their collective by injecting nanoprobes in order to create perfection

Before they were wiped out in 1981 by mutants from the Planet McEnroe.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Before they were wiped out in 1981 by mutants from the Planet McEnroe.

Borg was Borg before his time.

 

[Chicken Run]

If you're stupid/gullible enough to believe the moon landings were faked (six times) then it's only a 'small step for a moron' (to coin a phrase) to believe that was faked as well. Indeed isn't there now an entire 'space is fake' theory? Takes it to a logical conclusion.

For the record I don’t believe the moon landings were fake, I was being sarcastic. [emoji106]

 

[KZNSeagull]

The bigger purpose should, imo, be as part of a longer-term plan to send humans to Mars.

But NASA left Matt Damon behind last time they went, so I am not sure that they can be trusted.

 

[neilbard]

 

[Brovion]

For the record I don’t believe the moon landings were fake, I was being sarcastic. [emoji106]

Indeed sir, I never thought for a moment that you did. I perhaps should have said "if one is stupid/gullible enough" rather than you thinking the comment was aimed at 'you' specifically.

 

[narly101]

I'm amazed that nobody has been along with the "nobody's been there yet" CT. #hatstand

It certainly would be nice to "actually" get there considering all the others were faked.

And certainly not #hatstand, just a firm believer that the landings were filmed on Earth.

 

[Blatter]

The bigger purpose should, imo, be as part of a longer-term plan to send humans to Mars.

It could be that the Americans are using it as a stepping stone for their Mars programme. This book The Value Of The Moon by Paul D. Spudis shows how he (a NASA scientist) believes that the poles of the moon are likely to have water and this resource should be used as part of the programme to colonise the moon, on the way to Mars.

 

[Goldstone1976]

It could be that the Americans are using it as a stepping stone for their Mars programme. This book The Value Of The Moon by Paul D. Spudis shows how he (a NASA scientist) believes that the poles of the moon are likely to have water and this resource should be used as part of the programme to colonise the moon, on the way to Mars.

Yep, indeed.

 

[Boys 9d]

When the Americans arrive they will probably find artificial islands that the Chinese have built in the Sea of Tranquility.

 

[Questions]

What pubs are they all meeting in ?

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I thought she was a Borg but regardless of all that if she’s Palace then I’m changing my choice on the halo-deck.

She was a human turned Borg. However, the doctor removed loads of her cybernetic components iirc.