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    I'm surprised no one posted this. By 2024 we are supposedly going to start building a space station (about the size of a shopping mall) on the Moon, from which point on we will have a permanent human presence on the Moon. I hope everything goes as planned, and we see this in our lifetimes!

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    NASA announced plans Monday to begin building a permanent base on the moon by 2024, four years after the space agency starts sending crews of four astronauts there for weeklong exploratory missions.

    The base would probably be located near the lunar south pole and be staffed by rotating teams of international astronauts for up to six months at a time, according to NASA officials.

    The teams will be equipped for extended travel across the cratered lunar surface and will start preparing the base as a way station for an eventual human mission to Mars, the officials said.

    No price tag has yet been set for the lunar venture, but the space agency's lunar exploration chief conceded that participation by other space-faring nations as well as U.S. industries will be critical for success of the costly, risky and technically demanding effort.

    Deputy NASA Administrator Shana Dale, who led a news briefing at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, said the agency will send a series of manned spacecraft starting in 2014 to orbit both polar regions of the moon and scout out possible landing sites in search of evidence of natural resources and potential hazards to exploring lunar vehicles.

    The first astronaut teams, she said, would land in 2020 -- as President Bush has proclaimed -- and start building the permanent base from which the international teams could explore the lunar surface for miles around aboard mobile solar-powered craft in preparation for the Mars mission Bush has also envisioned. No target date has been set for any human mission to Mars, where the robot spacecraft Opportunity and Spirit are still exploring the surface nearly four years after they landed there on what was scheduled as a three-month mission.

    A successful manned mission to the moon in 2020 would come 51 years after the astronauts of Apollo 11 made the world's first lunar landing and 48 years after Apollo 17 ended that ambitious space venture.

    Dale said NASA experts have already consulted more than 1,000 scientists, engineers and other space specialists in 14 nations to set the long-term strategy for lunar exploration and to design the architecture of the orbiters, the landing craft and the bases that will ultimately be required.

    The manned lunar venture could cost $500 billon or more, experts have estimated. It will be up to future presidents and Congress to provide the money.

    Even now, all the schedules are tentative and detailed plans are still being developed, Dale said. A NASA-sponsored international space exploration conference focusing on the moon, Mars and beyond is under way in Houston, she said.

    The original Apollo astronauts landed near the moon's equator and ventured as far as 21 miles across the surface, but the new plans call for a base at one of the poles because the polar regions are sunlit 70 to 80 percent of the year and that means easy access to solar power, said Doug Cooke, NASA's exploration systems chief. Eventually, with sturdy vehicles, the lunar explorers could roam for scores of miles across the surface.

    The Shackleton crater near the south pole would be the most likely location for the moon base, Cooke said, because a 300-acre flat site -- almost the size of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. -- lies nearby. That would give astronauts a natural place to land and would put the base close to deep, dark craters where water may exist that could yield hydrogen, oxygen and perhaps other volatile chemicals for creating rocket fuel for return voyages to Earth.

    "There could even be cometary ices that have lain there for billions of years," Cooke said.

    Major scientific goals would be achieved by returning to the moon, said Dale and Scott Horowitz, a retired astronaut who is another NASA deputy administrator for space exploration.

    Dale, for example, envisioned placing arrays of space telescopes on the moon's far side where no atmosphere or sunlight would obscure their unlimited vision.

    Horowitz said mobility of the exploring crews would be crucial: "Everything from a guy walking around in a spacesuit to a team riding away in a fully pressurized space vehicle -- maybe equipped with a backhoe to dig up lunar dirt," as he put it.

    At NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, where scientists first analyzed the moon rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts more than three decades ago, engineers have long been noted for expertise in developing pressurized suits for space travel and will work with colleagues at the Johnson center to create new gear and respirator masks that could resist the razor-sharp particles of moon dust.

    The first new robot reconnaissance mission to the moon will actually start next year, with the launch of a spacecraft called the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which will circle the poles on the lookout for natural resources that might prove useful to later astronauts.

    The orbiter will also carry a smaller craft called the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, that was designed by Ames engineers and scientists to take a first look for signs of water in the moon's rocks. In 2009, the spacecraft's Centaur rocket stage will deliberately crash into the Shackleton crater near the south pole, while instruments on the observing stage seek for evidence of water in the plume of moon dust kicked up by the impact.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rockette View Post
    I'm surprised no one posted this. By 20204 we are supposedly going to start building a space station (about the size of a shopping mall) on the Moon, from which point on we will have a permanent human presence on the Moon. I hope everything goes as planned, and we see this in our lifetimes!
    I don't think I'm going to be alive in 20204, but if medical science can make that possible, it'll kinda put building a colony on the moon in perspective.


    Not poking fun, but that typo was too awesome.

    And yes, as exorbiant as the price tag is, I'd like to see this pan out as well considering that the last Apollo landing occured just a couple weeks before I was born.
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    I'm so glad we've finally fixed all our problems here! Our schools are the best in the world now, everyone in the country has a decent place to live, violent crime is a thing of the past, all our children are getting a nutritious diet and good supervision, the war in Iraq is over, and everyone in the country has good healthcare. That's great news, and now that we've taken care of all that, this is a great way to spend that several billion we had left over!

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    Quote Originally Posted by doc-catfish View Post
    I don't think I'm going to be alive in 20204, but if medical science can make that possible, it'll kinda put building a colony on the moon in perspective.


    Not poking fun, but that typo was too awesome.

    And yes, as exorbiant as the price tag is, I'd like to see this pan out as well considering that the last Apollo landing occured just a couple weeks before I was born.
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    well hot damn! about 5 years ago there was this chick on stripperpower who was always babbling on about this. she claimed that the moon would be the entertainment capital of the world and the gateway to the universe. moon strippers...yeeeeaaaaahhhh........

    Quote Originally Posted by Rockette View Post
    I'm surprised no one posted this. By 2024 we are supposedly going to start building a space station (about the size of a shopping mall) on the Moon, from which point on we will have a permanent human presence on the Moon. I hope everything goes as planned, and we see this in our lifetimes!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah View Post
    I'm so glad we've finally fixed all our problems here! Our schools are the best in the world now, everyone in the country has a decent place to live, violent crime is a thing of the past, all our children are getting a nutritious diet and good supervision, the war in Iraq is over, and everyone in the country has good healthcare. That's great news, and now that we've taken care of all that, this is a great way to spend that several billion we had left over!
    You know...we'll never ever solve all of society's ills, and this sort of project is necessary for us to learn more about our world. I'd like to solve the world's problems too, but honestly, some things will never be fixed because there are just too many dumb people in the world.

    I know what you're saying, but if we wait to do things like this until we've fixed the world perfectly, we'd never do anything else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Hyde View Post
    You know...we'll never ever solve all of society's ills, and this sort of project is necessary for us to learn more about our world. I'd like to solve the world's problems too, but honestly, some things will never be fixed because there are just too many dumb people in the world.

    I know what you're saying, but if we wait to do things like this until we've fixed the world perfectly, we'd never do anything else.
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    If human endeavor waited until the world was fixed, there would never be any endeavors.




    I mean, couldn't you say that about anything? Why have sports when there's so much real conflict in the world? Why travel for pleasure when there is so much to do at home? Why spend time and money making and watching movies when there are real problems to take care of? I'm not being snotty - I just see it as a misplaced argument.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PaigeDWinter View Post
    That and the space program keeps a few of us employed


    yes, seeing how i live on the SPACE COAST i'm all for it!

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    Geeze could you imagine the pole tricks we could do if there was no such thing as gravity..... Hee-hee. The moon as the entertainment capital of the universe... Sweet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Hyde View Post
    You know...we'll never ever solve all of society's ills, and this sort of project is necessary for us to learn more about our world. I'd like to solve the world's problems too, but honestly, some things will never be fixed because there are just too many dumb people in the world.

    I know what you're saying, but if we wait to do things like this until we've fixed the world perfectly, we'd never do anything else.
    Well said good sir! I'm ready to explore more space! Its far cooler than earth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The one and only Raven View Post
    Geeze could you imagine the pole tricks we could do if there was no such thing as gravity..... Hee-hee. The moon as the entertainment capital of the universe... Sweet.

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    That would rock! I'd finally be able to do pole tricks!!
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    the only reason NASA wants to do this now.... is because Japan wants to send some astros there... and be the 'first'...

    can't have that now. not after all these years of a perfectly kept secret. had to fake it to teach those ruskis a lesson... how you fake a shopping mall on the moon i have *no* idea. 24 years ought to iron those problems out tho'.

    *drops conspiracy bomb and runs*

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    So when do we get into Lagrange Points and Gundams? I'm putting in my request for a RX-93 now.

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    The fact of the matter is, space exploration would have a similar extremely positive effect on the economy as a good war--without all the killing and suffering involved, and antipathy of the populations of those nations we might be warring against.

    Don't doubt it, war has proven to be quite helpful to the development of technology (jet aircraft and computer technology being but two developments coming right out of WW II), and to the economic health of the USA. I'm not saying it's correct or just--just that it is so.

    The benefits of the first moon landing program to technology and the economy were immense.

    A permanent human presence on the moon would be one of the very best things that could happen to the human race.

    I'm with Steven Hawking on this one--he recently came out with a statement that for the long term survival of the human species, space exploration and colonization, on a major scale, is almost a necessity.
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    I'm all for space colonization. Relieving population pressure could ease a few problems here.
    The Zionist Jews could abandon Israel for a terraformed Mars and christen it New Jerusalem. The Wahabis could terraform Venus and have their NeoMecca. American gun nuts could hollow out a few asteroids and put in shooting ranges and we'd have the Libertarian Belt.
    Mormon polygamists on the moons of Jupiter? Why the hell not? And those pesky vegetarians could manufacture tofu on the moons of Saturn.
    Go space!

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    I want to be the Moon Queen dammit. Or Saturn... any planet really... just gimmie a crown, a throne, and ultimate power.



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    No you are not Sailor Moon Paige, your Sailor Mars at the least, or Sailor Pluto.

    First Gundam... now Sailor Moon I need some help!!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by cherryripeboy View Post
    No you are not Sailor Moon Paige, your Sailor Mars at the least, or Sailor Pluto.

    First Gundam... now Sailor Moon I need some help!!!!

    Pluto was a hottie... but I had a secret crush on Uranus. Shhh!


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    (S, SS, R, and Stars?) Somehow I got into that show... lol gah now all the male otaku will hate me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cherryripeboy View Post
    (S, SS, R, and Stars?) Somehow I got into that show... lol gah now all the male otaku will hate me.

    Yeah I got into it before it hit the US and that damned dubbing. Meh. I had so much merch from that series. Egads


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    Now songs from They Might Be Giant's "Apollo 18" are stuck in my head- there's a couple space-themed songs on the disc.

    (Hey, better than the Spongemoneys' song "We Like The Moon" from )

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    I could not resist.... a moon base always makes me think of Gundam, which leads to space colony's and space elevators at the Lagrange points, and well once you have anime in the midst, is is only a few steps to the bunny in the moon. (Somehow I think Paige is one of the few to get that). LOL

    So lets get to the moon dammit!! Today the moon, tomorrow a better job.
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    Quote Originally Posted by madmaxine View Post
    Now songs from They Might Be Giant's "Apollo 18" are stuck in my head- there's a couple space-themed songs on the disc.

    (Hey, better than the Spongemoneys' song "We Love The Moon" from www.rathergood.com )

    What about Ozzy's classic "Bark at the Moon", oh and it is a full moon tonight, well it was fullish and bright.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cherryripeboy View Post
    What about Ozzy's classic "Bark at the Moon", oh and it is a full moon tonight, well it was fullish and bright.

    I want to have sex with that song.


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