[Boatanchors] Space Shuttle (OT, kinda)

[J. Forster]

Errr...  Dick,

There might be a few things missing. Have you ever seen a bathroom on DS9
or the Enterprise? How long can you hold it?

-John

==============


> The idea of a Base Station on the Moon is nothing short of Lunacy,
> IMHO. I favor
> building a Space Station in high orbit and using that for a jump off
> point.
> After all the basic plans for one already exist, just rent a copy of
> any Star Trek
> DVD !!
>
> The reasons for my beliefs are many and too lengthy to clutter up this
> reflector.
>
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Duane Fischer, W8DBF <dfischer at usol.com>
> wrote:
>> Fear not! The Chinese have a goal of landing on the moon in 2020+. They
>> are
>> a long ways away from Mars!
>>
>> A combined force of the USA and the ESA and Russia already have plans on
>> the
>> drawing boards and tests of the Orien engines already in progress. The
>> budget cuts will prevent our launch of Orien in 2013, possibly to 2018.
>> But
>> we are definitely going to put a man on an asteroid, build a base on the
>> moon and go for Mars by 2030.
>>
>> All of this assumes that the asteroid that is going to just barely miss
>> the
>> Earth in 2029 and hit the Earth in 2036, does not send us back to the
>> age of
>> stones!
>>
>> Maybe what is truly going on is NASA, and others around the planet,
>> trying
>> to figure out some way to deflect this Earth bound asteroid in 2036. You
>> do
>> not read much, if anything, in the newspapers about it now. What I see
>> is
>> all in NASA bulletins and news releases.
>>
>> There is enough Titanium on the moon, as well as Helium #3, to make
>> lunar
>> mining very profitable! Since agreements state that "nobody" owns the
>> moon,
>> mining could get a bit like a gold rush of 1849! Messy and deadly!
>> Hopefully
>> not, but greed seems to take precedince over sanity all too often.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Stinson" <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>
>> To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
>> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 3:31 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Space Shuttle (OT, kinda)
>>
>>
>>> If you're old as me, you remember SkyLab.
>>> I had a spacecraft thermal printer that was surplused
>>> from that program.  I was 18.  I cannibalized it.
>>> Not the first nor the last  S T U P I D stunt
>>> I'll ever pull.... sigh....
>>>
>>> And God speed to the Chinese, who will doubtlessly build
>>> humanities first StarShip, since Americans are now too busy
>>> being under-educated, over-entertained, over-fed
>>> and obsessed with worthless, disgusting crap
>>> like "American Idol" to do it.
>>>
>>> And yeah... I'm guilty, too....
>>>
>>>
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