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why did the staurn rocket program get dropped if it could leave low earth orbit wouldnt it have made sense to try and keep that going?? probably cost again
 
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Originally Posted by Dollyknot View Post
Or Bill Gates who said "640K of memory should be enough for anybody."
did he really?

spoiler: not.
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The big difference between us and other animals, is other animals very much in the main, are adapted the environment.

We take the environment and adapt it to us, so it could be said we have evolved the ability to adapt the environment to us, which is why we are despeciating the planet by evolving it to our needs.

If we take life to the moon and beyond, how will we be ruining these at the present, totally lifeless environments, unless of course you think life itself a pollution?
 
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Originally Posted by Icyseanfitz View Post
why did the staurn rocket program get dropped if it could leave low earth orbit wouldnt it have made sense to try and keep that going?? probably cost again
Because we went to the moon before we really knew what we were doing. We took huge risks and spent big bucks to beat the russians and it was partly due to dumb luck that we never had a disaster on the moon. Sooner or later we would have.

Once we beat the russians, LEO was seen as an affordable place to learn how to live in space for extended periods of time so that when we did go back to the moon, we could stay there.
 
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Originally Posted by ossipena View Post
did he really?

spoiler: not.
Not verbatim no, what he actually said was "I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time."

From http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
 
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Until recently the U.S. and Russia were the only two countries that could put men in space. In the last few years, China has launched their first few manned space flights - and they have lunar ambitions.

I really hope China secretly develops a huge lunar program. Because the reaction from the U.S. would be the same as it was in the 60's - spend huge amounts of money to one-up them!
 
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I reckon Steve Jobs will be the first to Mars with his iPhone 5.0 OS

Seriously though I hope they do find alternate ways of getting into Space, the elevator does look like a good concept
 
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the thing is china are probably the only country out their right now that can afford big space programs and in all likelihood they are creating a massive space program we just dont know about it lunar hell i hope they have ambitions for mars as well
 
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Originally Posted by Flynx View Post
Until recently the U.S. and Russia were the only two countries that could put men in space. In the last few years, China has launched their first few manned space flights - and they have lunar ambitions.

I really hope China secretly develops a huge lunar program. Because the reaction from the U.S. would be the same as it was in the 60's - spend huge amounts of money to one-up them!
Yeah the big draw is helium 3.

Personally I would like to see the UN do it, but that is just a silly dream.

May I remind you, the true cost is work, money never fed anybody, farmers feed most of us.

All money does is motivates people, the problem is, some people want to make money without doing anything for it.

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Originally Posted by Dollyknot View Post
Personally I would like to see the UN do it, but that is just a silly dream.
Not so silly. The international space station is a cooperation between the United States, Russia, Canada, Japan, Italy, Germany, France... lots of countries.

American, Russian, European, and Japanese vehicles launch and dock to the space station.
 
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