You should have taken the red pill Neo..

it’s easy to believe that God simply put it there.

Bigfoot on July 21, 2007 at 9:28 PM

Sounds like something He’d do.

;-)

The Moon is 400th the size of the Sun, but 400 times closer, making total eclipses of the Sun possible. One of God’s way of saying, yes, I made all this!

The Moon is receeding from the Earth about 4 cm per year. Some time in the future, total eclipses will be history, and we’ll only have annular eclipses.

However, considering that the only theory that comes close to explaining the Moon’s existence posits that the early Earth was hit by a smaller planet, with some of the debris coalescing to form the Moon, with the odds of such a collision producing exactly that result being very small, I’d say it’s easy to believe that God simply put it there.

Yes. The ecology of a vacuum. (Atmosphere type “0″ for those familiar with an old SF game called Traveller….)

Wasn’t there a plan to decommission it, a while back? There was a push to send up a shuttle and bring its corpse back to earth intact, rather than having it burn up in the atmosphere. It seems to have faded from the news recently. Along with the Mars rovers, it’s a good advertisement for NASA; although it had a wonky start, with its deformed main mirror, the telescope has continued to produce great newspaper photos.

Actually got to talk several times to the only geologist ever to tread on the moon. Really great guy considering he was both a ‘moon walker’ and a US Senator. (Too bad he isn’t still a Senator… He was a good conservative too.)

I kept bugging him to sell me a piece of moon rock from his ‘personal stash’. (I used to be in the rare mineral business, and it would have been such a coup.). He kept insisting he didn’t keep even a speck of dust… But I’d have found some way, if it had been me up there.

I’m glad they’ve gotten so much use out of Hubble, we’ve learned a lot from it.

Astronauts, scientists and whoever else ends up living there will need to be able to “live off the land” as much as possible.

(best Mel Blanc impression)
Wabbit Season… Duck Season… Wabbit Season…

Living on, or visiting, the Moon sounds cool to me. Anytime we push ourselves to do more, we create more industry, better technology. It’s all worth the time, effort and $$$!

The Moon is 400th the size of the Sun, but 400 times closer, making total eclipses of the Sun possible. One of God’s way of saying, yes, I made all this!

It’s funny. When people talk about moon colonization most folks shrug or dismiss it as a cartoon fanatsy. BUT if you say, okay if you think it’s too far out to think about, then what do we have to lose by proclaiming a free “Homestead Act” for the moon — you and your descendants literally own taxless forever whatever lunar territory you can physically stake out yourself if you can get there, via Virgin or who whomever. Then all the rolling eyes and chuckles kind of smirk serious because they don’t like even the possibility of such enterprising intruding on the “pristine moon,”

James Greenidge
Queens NY — Who’d happily stake a piece of the moon if he could jump high enough.

-JediAstroPhotographer

/ sighs happily

Pictures of the moon. Hmph! Wheres my flying car!

whoever else ends up living there will need to be able to “live off the land” as much as possible.

I suggest the first explorers be the Goracle, Hillary, Obama for government leaders; Wesley Clark for defense; the 9th circuit court for judges; Harry Reid & Nancy Pelosi for Congress; for entertainment-Sheryl Crowe, and for news-
Keith Olberman.

Live long and prosper!

(In every sense.)

We should have had domed bases on Luna by naow.

It’s a sign of the weakeness on humanity’s will and common sense that we’ve let ourselves get turned away from exploring and colonizing the solar system by the jabberings and terrorism of medievalists.

We need a new place to protect our protean achievements.

And a better challenge for our ingenuity and passion.

And preserve Nature’s best hope for meeting itself.

What? The Hubble took pictures of the Apollo landing sites? Uh, well, sure, they can SAY that, but, but, how do we know THOSE aren’t fake too? Geez Bryan, you’ll believe anything Bush tells you!

- The Cat

P.S. Course if we’d just start mining the asteriods then Battle Tech could happen. I wanna be a Mech Warrior Baby (sung to a Kid Rock song)

P.P.S. Man, I’m a geek.

Now, I’d like them to map all the terrorist camps on Earth, then all the dog-fighting sites. Then point them out and leave it up to me to do something about all of them.

Thank you Bryan for a wonderful topic and post. Always sad that we’re not further along in space exploration because we’re so backwords still as a ‘humanity’ and have to spend money on utter stone/stick-aged nonsense,