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11/02/09
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All I know is that we went from concept to supposed moon landing in 9 years.
40 years later, no one on this planet has gone back. What's wrong with this picture?
If you compare the first 9 years of the space program with what we have currently, we should have landed on Mars at least 20 years ago.
We go from landing on the moon to orbiting the earth a billion times in 40 years? Give me a break.
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I really do appreciate your efforts. Believe me, I really do. However, these past couple of years have been pretty disappointing. I know we tried to make it work, but I feel like our relationship is a little one-sided. Whenever I try to visit you, you're always a little hostile and cold. You sometimes lash out with debris and constantly threaten me with solar flares.
Also, I've been kinda seeing someone else. You may know it well. I was hopeful with you, but you seem either unable or unwilling to supply me with aliens, but the ocean has some shit you wouldn't believe. I'm very sorry. Hopefully you'll find someone, but it can't be me.
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Nothing quite excites like POWER! #nasa
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07/21/09
I sometimes wonder if humanity will forget that we went to the moon. It will be a myth; people will hear the tales from the elders, but, wont believe it, because its such a far fetched idea that men would get into a tiny box and hurl themselves off this planet and all the way to that distant orb in the night sky. Preposterous, they will say.
We are lucky to have lived in this time.
07/21/09
One of the biggest uses of photo-cells is for powering spacecraft and satellites. The biggest drive to make them more efficient is the same.
Perhaps if we had kept the push past the early 70's instead of thinking of sending people to the moon as 'ho-hum' we'd have already been building houses standard w/ solar cell shingles since the mid 80's....
I find it depressing that we've forgotten so much of the technology we had in the 60's, and now have to spend billions upon billions just to rediscover it.
I understand that my view of space exploration being integral to inspiring people to educate themselves at a time when teachers are fighting to keep their jobs, but nobody is going to learn unless they are able to dream about what they can do with that education.
I find our lack of belief in what NASA bring brings us on an intangible level of inspiration scary. Yet someone always says: "We can always find a better use for the money."
Can we? Is throwing money at a problem the best way to encourage people as a society to address the ills in their community?
07/21/09
The boy in me wants a man on the mars so that I can know the awe that he felt as a boy eating that spam and peanut butter sandwhich. But the reality today is that Mars is probably just not worth it.
Make no mistake. We went to the moon to prove we could nuke Russia from space. Until we are under threat from martians, there will be no political will to go to Mars.
07/21/09
It wasn't like they woke up one day and said, "I want to build a robot to go to Mars." We've been ending unmanned craft to planets for a long time, and it's still a great way to explore.
However there is something intangible about people walking on the moon, or people walking on mars. It's a frontier, it's exploration, and people can reach out and touch it rather than just look at pictures.
People are much more inspired by the thought that maybe one day they too can go into space than, "Maybe one day I can build a robot to scurry about Mars and attempt to kill Val Kilmer!"