Bush Plans to Send Americans to Moon, on to Mars
Is there oil up there or something?
:devil:
Nothing like election year promises.
Is there oil up there or something?
:devil: Nothing like election year promises.
Straight to the moon Alice
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Is this where I make a joke about Bush and Uranus?Originally posted by Westy
Bush Plans to Send Americans to Moon, on to Mars
Is there oil up there or something?
Nothing like election year promises.
I think you're right Loop....I think I even made the same tired o;d joke....actually tired old jokes are the only ones I've got. Anyway speaking of tired old jokes, how are ya Loopie?
haha, Westy gets no respect, you just blantantly hi-jacked the thread and pissed on his boots at the same time.Originally posted by valve bouncer
I think you're right Loop....I think I even made the same tired o;d joke....actually tired old jokes are the only ones I've got. Anyway speaking of tired old jokes, how are ya Loopie?
I'm good, thanks. Leaving in a few hours to spend the weekend at a ski resort (Winter Park). It's only two hours a way, but a friend's parents have a place there and they're not going this weekend.
Yesterday was the first day in two months I could ride my motorcycle
What's up with you? How's the weather where you're at?
PS: Tired jokes are good, they got tired cuz they work well.
All is fair, I do my best to hijack other people threads although I usually fail.
Haven't something like half of all unmanned expeditions to Mars resulted in failure? And the last I heard, none of them ever returned to Earth (unless I'm wrong). I'm all in favor of space exploration, but this is quite ambitious of the Bush campaign. Let's get an unmanned ship to land on Mars and safely return before sending people there.
That is my understanding as well. They'll have to develop that technology, which will include having to figure out a way to land all that extra fuel on Mars for a relaunch. Did you see how they landed that rover? BOUNCE BOUNCE BOUNCE. Let's see them do that with all that fuel.
I am sure NASA is reading this thread, thinking "Holy crap, Baboon is right! We hadn't thought of any of that!"
Loopie, is it true that with your rather impressive girth you have your own gravity?
.........mmmmm journey to Mars, wonder what studio they're gonna do it in?
Mars' gravity is 1/3 stronger than Earth's.
Moon base! Bout frikkin time. 
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tarts whistling Star Trek Theme:
Has a shuttle ever tried to make it to Mars? I didnt know we had ever tried it.
I don't think so, in fact, i think all missions not to the moon have simply orbited earth.
If I'm wrong cool, if not, before going to Mars, we should send a shuttle half way just to start testing the idea. I think part of the problem, as IAB pointed out, is fuel. If a shuttle's in geo-stationary orbit, it's not burning fuel, am I correct? When going to Mars, would they just need one burn to cover most of the distance or some sort of constant burn?
Whistle 2001, it's better.Originally posted by golgiaparatus
Moon base! Bout frikkin time.
We were able to land on the moon and subequently return to Earth because we could land a fuel powered vehicle there, due to the low gravity. With Mars however, we have essentially crash landed every unmanned vessel we've sent there. I can't imagine we'll be able to crash land a manned vessel loaded with hundreds of tons of extra fuel. It'll be interesting to see how they do that, you know, like 45 years from now. Hope I'm alive for it.
Shuttle missions are low earth orbit, as far as I know. Usually a lot of the shuttle's cargo capacity is being used, so it really doesn't have room for the extra fuel needed to bump it higher.
You're right about not needing fuel for the orbits they do, but the shuttle doesn't go up to a geosynchronous orbit. That is a LONG way up. The only time they use fuel is to maneuver and to come back down.
On the way to the moon, you don't need a constant burn, you just need enough to get you away from the earth's gravity influence. No friction in space, so once you're on the way, you're good to go.
Good ol' Newton.......
Except for the bazillion dollars that its going to cost.
Repeat after me Georgie
THE FEDERAL BUDGET ISN'T YOUR CREDIT CARD.
THE FEDERAL BUDGET ISN'T YOUR CREDIT CARD.
THE FEDERAL BUDGET ISN'T YOUR CREDIT CARD.
He'd be responsible for credit cards.....
I work with a gentleman who is in his 50s and is quite a Republican. I was bitching about Bush spending like a drunken sailor, and my colleague remarked that it was better than Clinton.
I had to pull up numbers from the CBO before he would believe that we have actually had a budget surplus.
Must have been that damn liberal media that had him confused.
Are we there yet?
Gas prices too high to afford the trip.Westy said:
...on a side note, Id've really like to see Alice take a real shot at least once.
All the required rocket fuel would drain all the H2 we need for the hydrogen fueled economy we are building.BurlyShirley said:
You ever read an old thread and think to yourself, "Since when the fock did I become such an expert on space travel?"
yup, either I was and all the concussions made me dumber or I, uhh, something.I Are Baboon said:You ever read an old thread and think to yourself, "Since when the fock did I become such an expert on space travel?"
thread was deja vu at first. good bump.
