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You wouldn't believe how furious it makes me that I have to make an observation like that. I'm of the opinion that Proxmire ought to be dug up, resurrected, and then publicly executed as a traitor not just to the United States, but to the entire human species. It's his fault that the momentum of the Apollo era wasn't maintained. He made it his goal to saddle NASA with management that was either outright opposed to their mission or incompetent to execute it.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Sounds just like today down in the DC Swamp...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Steve Naidamast wrote: DC Swamp...
Sewer
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Oh, I disagree. Mr Trump wants to create a new branch of the military: the "Space Force". So far it is only talk, but the private enterprises (SpaceX and a few others) are gearing up. They will provide all of the launch vehicles.
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James Lonero wrote: a new branch of the military: the "Space Force"
The so-called "Space Force" is posturing, nothing more.James Lonero wrote: the private enterprises (SpaceX and a few others) are gearing up.
I sincerely hope they do.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: The so-called "Space Force" is posturing, nothing more.
No, no, it's real. I saw it on Netflix a couple of months back. I assume it's a documentary. It certainly looked very realistic. 
For anyone that hasn't seen it, check out the trailer. It's probably going to be the most entertaining 3 minutes you'll have for a while:
Space Force | Official Trailer | Netflix - YouTube[^]
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The "I don't want to live on this planet anymore" meme was quite popular a while back.
You may just find you'll need more than one rocket to get them all there 
If we really can't find anyone we may assign some volunteers 
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At the rate we're destroying this planet we better hurry our colonization efforts.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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Soon there will only be 7 planets!
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Aliens will know our planet as 3rd garbage pit from the sun
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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You're too cynical.
If we continue destroying the planet at our current rate, and taking into account that most of these bad practices are positive feedback loops, we won't have to go to the barren surface of the moon at all.
It will be here.
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I laugh anytime I see people calling doomsday on planet earth.
Do poeple who think we are destroying earth only live in highly dense cities?
Most of the world is unoccupied, there is room to spare. In the US we call them Fly-Over states because there is nothing there and they are largest part of our country.
We haven't even started trying to repair earth because it is not broken. There is no evidence it is dying, just warming. The world will change. It constantly changes. Temperatures and weather fluxuates, earthquakes happen, techtonic plates move, etc.
We can now desalinize the ocean, but how many cities on the coast are actually doing this? Hardly any. We can pipe oil and gas around the world, but we haven't more than considered piping desalinized ocean water places. We haven't even tried to terraform. What would happen if we terraformed the Sahara desert into a lush green forest? How would that forest affect our atmosphere to have more forest. Lower our carbon ommissions is only part of it. Increasing the plant life is another part.
Everything Nasa does will help us here on earth.
The best part of trying to inhabit a planet such as the moon is we learn terraforming skills that we can apply to increase vegetation here on earth, thus lowering our carbon footprint. Imagine a 3d printer that is solar powered than can scoop silicates (dirt, sand, etc) from the ground and make an air-tight glass dome for places like the moon or mars. Imagine testing this in the Sahara and creating thousands of miles of glass domes to use a green houses to erase the desert and replace it with green life.
We could create waterways to below sea-level zones, allowing ocean to flow in an out, such as the dead sea and death valley, which will add life, add moisture to the surrounding air and increase green life in those areas.
What if we gain the technology to mine asteroids while trying to terraform the moon and mars, could we mine oxygen and other healthy air and return it to earth?
The next two-hundred years is going to fun to be alive, to bad I'll only get about 50 more years of it.
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How many garbage/plastic continents are there now? Last I heard about 5. Drinking water is going to become a big problem because farmers are using wells to water their crops. Gas and oil are finite, how long before they're depleted? I could go on but thats a pretty good start.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Won't be hard to take care of the plastic soon.
Plastic Eating bacteria
And I already covered water. There is plenty of that and always will be. Desalinization. Terraforming, creating a pipe or waterway flow to the Dead Sea and Death Valley and other below-sea-level areas. If we piped into Death Valley and back out, we could have a mini-ocean, as big as the Great Salt Lake. The air from the west rises over the Sierra Nevadas and drops all its humidity, and dry air travels over western California, Nevada, Utah, etc. That is why it is a desert. The air is dry and sucks up all the water. With Death Valley filled with water, that dry air would absorb water, and the entire Nevada and Utah deserts would begin to thrive. The rainfall and snowfall would increase in the Rocky Mountains, filling the lakes, rivers, reservoirs, etc. Creating more water for the entire South West with only the effort to build two pipes. More vegetation would grow in the area, which would aid in oxygen.
Before we start declaring doomsday, we should have at least tried a few things first. Let wait to declare doomsday until all the coastal cities have desalinization plants and still lack water. As for now, other than building reservoirs, and dabbling in desalinization, what have we tried?
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The earth ejected the moon from its belly because it was infected with craters, and had a bad attitude about asteroids; it accepted its fate, its exile, with grace, only retaliating with one kick that tilted earth just 23.5 degrees off its axis.
The moon doesn't want earth people going there !
That ,,, will end badly.
Mars ? It's connected with the manipura chakra ... Don't get me started.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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You mean back to the studio!?
The moon landing was fake!
We're ruled by lizards!
Chemtrails make us docile!
5G spreads corona!
And most importantly, Epstein didn't kill himself! (this one may actually be true, I don't know...)
If they do manage to put people on the moon, perhaps those moon landing conspiracists will finally shut up.
And if they make some pictures of the earth while they're there we may root out the flat-earthers as well.
Only 8561348613487647821 more conspiracies left to go
Of course that's not how it goes and we'll get conspiracists saying the first was fake, but the second wasn't, people who'll say only the second was fake and people who'll say both are fake.
Also, some flat-earthers may believe the earth "popped" into a round shape right the minute those astronauts took a picture.
And there'll probably spawn a whole new breed of flat-mooners 
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Sander Rossel wrote: perhaps those moon landing conspiracists will finally shut up
You cannot convince people refusing evidence with more evidence.
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The chances of anything going to Mars
Are a million to one, he said
The chances of anything going to Mars
Are a million to one, but still, they go
(With apologies to H.G. Wells, and to Jeff Wayne (The War of the Worlds musical))
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the surface of the moon. In the months leading up to their expedition, the Apollo 11 astronauts trained in a remote moon-like desert in the western United States. The area is home to several Native American communities, and there is a story - or legend - describing an encounter between the astronauts and one of the locals.
One day as they were training, the astronauts came across an old Native American. The man asked them what they were doing there. They replied that they were part of a research expedition that would shortly travel to the moon. When the old man heard that, he fell silent for a few moments, and then asked the astronauts if they could do him a favour.
'What do you want?' they asked.
'Well,' said the old man, 'the people of my tribe believe that holy spirits live on the moon. I was wondering if you could pass on a message to them from my people.'
'What's the message?' asked the astronauts.
The man uttered something in his tribal language, and then asked the astronauts to repeat it again and again until they had memorized it correctly.
'What does it mean?' asked the astronauts.
'Oh, I cannot tell you. It's a secret that only our tribe and the moon spirits are allowed to know.'
When they returned to their base, the astronauts searched and searched until they found someone who could speak the tribal language, and asked him to translate the secret message. When they repeated what they had memorized, the translator started to laugh uproariously. When he calmed down, the astronauts asked him what it meant.
The man explained that the sentence they had memorized so carefully said, 'Don't believe a single word these people are telling you. They have come to steal your lands.'"
--From the book, "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968. back then the Moon base and all those orbital stations didn't seemed so much like a goddam fiction. given that humanity had 33 years to accomplish it.
now, even going back from plastic to glass bottles seems like science fiction.
besides, why waste taxpayers money on a mission to the Moon when you can waste it on "war against whatever"?
Ariane 5, Payload to LEO: 20T, Payload to GTO: 10T, Cost per launch: US$165–220 million
Proton-M, Payload to LEO: 23T, Payload to GTO: 6T, Payload to GSO: 3T, Cost per launch: US$65 million
Falcon Heavy, Payload to LEO: 63T, Payload to GTO: 26T, Payload to Mars: 16T, Cost per launch: $150 million
Long March 5, Payload to LEO: 25T, Payload to GTO: 14T, Payload to GSO: 6T, Cost per launch: ?
Long March 3B, Payload to LEO: 11T, Payload to GTO: 5T, Payload to GSO: 3T, Cost per launch: $70 million
B-2 Stealth Bomber, Payload to LEO: 0T, Payload to GTO: 0T, Unit average cost: $2100 million, No. built: 21
M1 Abrams battle tank, Payload to LEO: 0T, Payload to GTO: 0T, Unit average cost: $9 million, No. built: 10300
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Crosby Stills and Nash!
"It's gonna be a long time gone"
Bill Simnel
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There is still a ton of the earth we have not discovered. Let's start discovering what we have before we decide to take off. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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So far, every single cent spent on space has been spent here on Earth. Microcomputer technology, pacemakers, hearing aids, Teflon (yup - byproduct of the Gemini program), and a lot more is a direct result of the US Space Program.
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Possibly. But that does not negate what I said.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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