Moon Landing

[debumblebee]

I see the idea of sticking a colony on MARS has been out of the news since they found radiation there. The moon would be a cool place to live. set up a lunar finance centre.

[Calimachon]

Will somebody please invite debumblebee to be the first to set up a financial colony on The Moon.  This, of course, would be a totally planetjersey free zone!

 

[debumblebee]

I would colonise the Moon if the women are ready (no psycho single mothers mind). They always said my love making was "out of this world".

[danrok]

It's amazing, isn't it? Aeronautics and space travel are two of the very few areas where the "state of the art" has actually retreated.

I'm too young to have watched the moon landings, and I think I missed out. I say this not because I don't think amazing things will happen in my life time - they will - but because I'm not sure I'll experience the same feelings of amazement. Movie and film technology, in particular video graphics, have advanced so far that we can create out of nothing any image we want. Maybe I'll see a man walk on Mars - but I've already seen it, it just wasn't real.

I hope my fears will  be unjustified.

Not sure what you mean?

The rockets and spacecraft used for moon landings were not exactly high-tech.

The state of the art has advanced massively since then.  No-one has been back to the moon recently, mostly because there is no point, and its very expensive.  All those moon landings were in the same ballpark as climbing Everest, they did it just because they could.

The main focus has been on the ISS in recent times, because it does serve many useful purposes, even if it costs huge sums of money.

[debumblebee]

I think they waste too much money on space travel. They keep on going on about MARS even after the photos from the Viking craft of the seventies showed there was nothing there.

[danrok]

More a case of a photo from the 1970s being incapable of telling you much at all.

There was nothing worthwhile to be found in the UAE, just lots of sand, until someone found oil.

We don't even know exactly what resources remain on this planet for sure, let alone Mars.

The only way the human race can out live this planet, is if we colonise another planet, before the Earth is cooked by the Sun.  Hypothetically it is possible to colonise Mars, which is further from the Sun, and should have a longer life span.

[imacrappaud]

I would colonise the Moon if the women are ready (no psycho single mothers mind). They always said my love making was "out of this world".

Well thats most of local women out of the equasion then

[debumblebee]

he he! We must have one of the highest percentage of single parents living in States subsidised accomodation in the world. I understand we already have one of the highest divorce rates. At least higher that the UK.