[KevO]

Maybe they'll find oil on the moon, too. All we would have to do is build a 230,000 mile oil pipeline to the moon, but that wouldn't be a problem! The 800 mile Alaskan pipeline provides us with good experience in doing this.

Don't forget, rangerone, new pipeline technology is being developed even as we speak that can someday make this a reality. The new tech over the horizon will put even the most inaccessible fields within our reach by the time we get there, so no worries about that either.

Yes but to do that they'd have to disarm all nukes then they might have the money, but let's face it, there will never be nuclear disarmanent

[vision-master]

Yes but to do that they'd have to disarm all nukes then they might have the money, but let's face it, there will never be nuclear disarmanent

Of course there will.
Photo (large)

[KevO]

Who'd a thought it? What a day!

Water on the Moon (Hoagland said there was didn't he once?)
Nuclear Disarmanent agreed. One world currency.

The latter is all thanks to the financial crisis. and when you have one currency, you have one government and we may even get to see it
and it's not rense.com, Tsarion or Icke (though they have said so.... eek!)

re the one world currency

Some argue that the financial crisis resulted from imbalances between savings and investment in major economies, which have led to large current deficits, as evident in the United States, and surpluses, as enjoyed by China.
Beijing was the first to call for a new global currency as an
alternative to the US dollar as the US deficit rocketed -- the White
House estimates it could reach nine trillion dollars over a decade

at
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/financeeconomyg20forexuschina

It'll be hard for tomorrow to top today

[DefiledEngine]

Earth first! We'll stripmine the other planets later.

[RedStateGreen]

Water on the moon is good if you want to put a colony there.

[mos6507]

Water on the moon is good if you want to put a colony there.

We're 10 years overdue and counting.

[VMarcHart]

Is moon gas unleaded?

[DomusAlbion]

I always knew they'd would find oil on the moon with all that cheese. All we need to do is build a space terminus at to geosynchronous orbit (35784 km) Two opposing elevators are built out toward the moon/earth for transfer of the thermaldepolymerized cheese.

But we have to make sure there are effective biological filters and traps at the way station. Earth mice let loose on the lunar surface would be devastating.

[frankthetank]

Yeehaw! Another celestial body we can inhabit at some point! Sure we never went there, but someday the Chinese or Russians will make it !

Seriously..this is cool stuff. I've been reading about how hard it would be to survive there, and there are a lot of issues. This could solve one major one.

It's official: There's water ice on the moon, and lots of it. When melted, the water could potentially be used to drink or to extract hydrogen for rocket fuel.

NASA's LCROSS probe discovered beds of water ice at the lunar south pole when it impacted the moon last month, mission scientists announced Friday. The findings confirm suspicions reported previously, and in a big way.

"Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn't find just a little bit, we found a significant amount," said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator from NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33912611/ns ... nce-space/

[mos6507]

I want one of these, and I want it now.

[highlander]

So what if there is water. It likely came from some comet slamming into the moon. All those craters indicate a quite unpleasant place to try to colonize.

[hillsidedigger]

The Moon is not protected from solar radiation the way Earth is.

[Tanada]

I want one of these, and I want it now.

I had several from the set growing up, Moon Base Alpha was a favorite playground of the mind for me.

[heroineworshipper]

Is China going to allow uncensored internet access from the moon after they get there & plant the communist flag?

[sicophiliac]

Yes this is exciting news, if only our government wasn't bankrupt and NASA wasn't underfunded. The moon also has potential for energy as its got large quantities of thorium and perhaps helium 3 for nuclear fuel. Solar power wouldn't be a problem either given there is no atmosphere to block light and also there's abundant silicon to mine. Furthermore we could construct massive radio telescopes on the dark side of the moon where wed have a better chance of picking up signals from possible extraterrestrial civilizations. I do still hold out a little hope that someday space exploration will progress but its not looking too good at the moment.

[hillsidedigger]

It won't happen, there is no more than a few at most, sporadic visits by people to the Moon.

The peak of civilization has been passed and soon is the fall of the level of technology probably never to rise again on this planet.

People to too stupid to overcome our most basic programming.

2010 is nearly here. Are there combined American-Russian missions to Jupiter?

[PrestonSturges]

I want one of these, and I want it now.

Your avatar is from "UFO" and your ship is from "Space 1999." What next, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons?

[mos6507]

2010 is nearly here. Are there combined American-Russian missions to Jupiter?

Manned spaceflight is a failure. Unmanned probes, however, are a wild success. The fact that we've been able to send back high resolution closeups of martian soil is mindblowing. Or that we've now got animations of martian dust devils. We also have a probe on its way to Pluto, finally. I managed to add my name to the CD they have on board.

[hillsidedigger]

2010 is nearly here. Are there combined American-Russian missions to Jupiter?

Manned spaceflight is a failure. Unmanned probes, however, are a wild success. The fact that we've been able to send back high resolution closeups of martian soil is mindblowing. Or that we've now got animations of martian dust devils. We also have a probe on its way to Pluto, finally. I managed to add my name to the CD they have on board.

Were you in a familiar TV show or movie?

[mos6507]

Were you in a familiar TV show or movie?

No, several years back there was a webpage open where you could submit your name. first come, first serve. It's just ASCII on a CD or DVD-ROM.