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From Earth To Moon Redux: How The Next Moonshot Will Happen

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loslosbaby
05/09/09

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"Armstrong landed that old thing on a wing and a prayer..."

Buzz Aldrin landed the Eagle, and spoke the first words heard from the moon too!

"Contact Light... Okay, Engine Stop"
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Con Seannery
05/09/09

@loslosbaby: And, because neither of the gave a damn about who got out first and it happened to Armstrong, many people don't even know who Aldrin is.
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frigg
05/09/09

@Con Seannery '09: Illegal in 1 Giz: Actually, I think the astronauts, competitive by nature (especially that crop), were very aware of the significance of that first step. Armstrong called it for himself.
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bosskev
05/09/09

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Here's how you--as an astronaut--would experience the mission...
More realistically, here's how I--as a lazy-assed civilian--would experience the mission:

(And, uh, no, that is not me in the picture.)
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bosskev
05/09/09

@bosskev: ...and if I'd realized this was going to end up on The Dead Zone That Is Page 2, I wouldn't have bothered, lazy-ass or otherwise.
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jawzzy
05/09/09

@bosskev: I read it...have no fear. And I actually lolled.
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Nick
05/09/09

@jawzzy: i'm here with you brother. we will make it out together.
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Nick
05/09/09

@bosskev: and you too
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frigg
05/09/09

@bosskev: Sadly, I'm one of those lazy-assed page one'ers who never bothered to click over to the purgatory of page two, and hence never saw it.
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bosskev
05/09/09

@frigg: And you know what I just verified? Comments previously at the bottom of page 1 CAN end up getting shifted to page 2. As of this moment, at the top of this page (page 2) there is a comment from Con Seannery. Well, up until a few minutes ago, that same comment had been at the bottom of page 1. I'm guessing, even though there were, of course, no additional original comments inserted ahead of his, his comment must have shifted as more people replied to original comments.

Bottom line: even if your original comment initially posts at/near the bottom of page 2, there is no guarantee it is going to stay there.
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bosskev
05/09/09

@bosskev:

* sigh *

...at/near the bottom of page 1.
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frigg
05/09/09

@bosskev: I suppose comments are like life itself: no guarantees, and so easily dispatched from page one celebrity to page two obscurity in a snap. *sigh* And people wonder why I spend so much time in deep space. Get me off this rock, indeed!

@Con Seannery '09: Illegal in 1 Giz: Sir, yes sir!
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fastm3driver
05/09/09

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Personally we should quadruple NASA's budget. They are the most high tech "company" on almost every level. They create high tech jobs and very high tech material and construction jobs. Their tech trickles down to everything. The use of high end alloys, carbon fiber, manufacturing technologies, nano tech... They usually employee people in every state and inspire the creative people of the future. There is almost no negative.
I know it looks like we are wasting money on the surface but it all trickles down and is a better investment to me that say the military or social programs that prop up lazy non-productive people.
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Nick
05/09/09

@fastm3driver: horrible idea. what we need to do is to make space a more commercial endeavor. kinda like they are doing now with their outsourcing. not everything needs to be in-house because when corporations are asked to innovate due to a project they are on then they can keep the fruits of that labor if something new is discovered. they in-turn make money off of said fruit and the cycle perpetuates. that is exactly why our pharmaceutical industry is always driving for those new drugs. if you just make NASA, a government agency, bigger -- than you are moving in the wrong direction. A lot of the cool things that have come out of space exploration is because of the partnerships with private firms and i believe we just need to do it some more, but on a larger scale.

so yes i agree more money, but not directly at NASA as it is now.
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Aturayd
05/09/09

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I bet $10,000 the next person on the moon will either be black or female or both.
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Nick
05/09/09

@Aturayd: Snakes on a Mother F***in' Space Shuttle

and why can't it be some other minority astronaut? what the deuce.
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Con Seannery
05/09/09

@867-5309_Nick: It's clear he's a racist.
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Nick
05/10/09

@Con Seannery '09: Illegal in 1 Giz: burn him. he's a witch.
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Pwnerjam3.0
05/09/09

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this new mission is asinine
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Kaiser-Machead
05/09/09

@Pwnerjam3.0: Mind elaborating?
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Takamofo
05/09/09

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Wait... Wasn't Space Bat was NASA's last shot at the moon?
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Nick
05/09/09

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You hear the clunk of mating adapters

Stop, you're making me blush.

Great post, but you forgot about that part of little Timmy, the billionaire's son, that was sent as part of the financing for the mission. For at this point the republicans are back in control and decide to subsidize the mission with some good old fashion commercialism. And as little Timmy comes to, after the 20 g pull on the coca cola sponsored ares rocket, he begins to pester with the . . .

"are we there yet?"
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Heliophage
05/09/09

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That's if we go back. Didn't President Obama propose that we cut this excursion?
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Kaili Zhang
05/09/09

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Question - why is it taking us so long to get to the Moon again when it took only 6 years back in the 60's? The technology we have is so much more advanced, yet it's taking more time to get there. I'm not doubting the moon landings back in 1969, just curious why it's taking , I guess, "longer than expected" now.
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Heliophage
05/09/09

@Kaili Zhang:

It's expensive, unreasonably so, since there's no reason to actually go to the moon beyond curiosity.
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infmom
05/09/09

@Kaili Zhang: We don't have to strut around proving we can beat those godless commies these days. That, more than anything else, pushed us into space in the 60s. The fact that the Soviet space program pretty much ate ours for lunch for the first few years was just an added incentive.

Just a thought from someone who vividly remembers Sputnik, Echo, Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard.
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bosskev
05/09/09

@infmom: "...someone who vividly remembers Sputnik, Echo, Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard."

Don't forget Spock.

Er...Doctor Spock.
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Cliff_Dangers
05/09/09

@Kaili Zhang: Sure the shuttle is old and has problems going through the atmosphere but I was thinking that it could be permanently docked at the space station and used for space going missions like going to the moon. It already has space for sizable cargo and the living quarters are much bigger than the Orion capsule they are going to use. Just use standard rockets to bring up fuel and supplies. Heat shield issues are no longer a problem.
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frigg
05/10/09

@Cliff_Dangers: I think the heat shield remains a problem. It is the weakest link on the shuttle, and as much as they've improved the design over the past several generations, it remains flawed, hence the need to photograph it after each launch, and make plans for an evacuation craft via the ISS if it is damaged.
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Robert Davis
05/09/09

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I appreciate everything that you guys do. but Wat is all this space crap. I am not in space. I have never been to space. I will never be going to space. so i really dont care
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Kaiser-Machead
05/09/09

@Robert Davis: Ugh, don't breed.
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Nick
05/09/09

@Robert Davis: hey buddy. what do you wanna talk about? we can have our own little fun time together. do you like coloring books?
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Robert Davis
05/09/09

@Robert Davis: Ha ha I win
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Nick
05/09/09

@Robert Davis: dude, you're at 6 replies. you're not even a good troll.
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dlomax
05/09/09

@Robert Davis: Go to your room. The grown-ups are talking.
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Robert Davis
05/09/09

@dlomax: thats what she asid
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infmom
05/09/09

@Robert Davis: I dunno, you're doing a pretty good impression of someone who's strictly from outer space.
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badhatharry
05/09/09

@Robert Davis: So this is the new thing rocking the dipshit world? Troll a message board to try and get the most responses, and use TV show catchphrases in ways that make absolutely no sense? Here's a tip: TWSS is not funny. Michael Scott is funny because he insists that phrase is funny. The joke is his ineptness at humor. Just like the joke here is your ineptness at, well, basically everything.

And if you are serious, I am not having sex with Angelina Jolie. I have never had sex with Angelina Jolie. I will never have sex with Angelina Jolie, but I am pretty interested in what having sex with Angelina Jolie is like.
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tande04
05/09/09

@badhatharry: In all fairness I'm pretty sure that phrase was around before the office.

Wayne's World perhapse?
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badhatharry
05/09/09

@tande04: Yeah, but now it's like quoting Borat. It's played out, and Mr. Scott does not realize it. That's why it's funny there, and nowhere else.
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Nick
05/09/09

@badhatharry: i have been sayig TWSS for over 10 years now. i cannot remember where i got it from. pretty sure i didn't make it up too.
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Con Seannery
05/09/09

@Robert Davis: *Cracks neck* I had hoped I wouldn't have to break this out again, but here we go. You, sir, are, quite honestly, a disgrace to humanity, a shame to your family, and a plague to your community. But here on Giz, you're nothing but a worthless [group I am not allowed to discriminate against] looking for attention, which, regrettably, this will be giving you. Why don't you do a big favor to mankind and either jump in front of a bus or castrate yourself, we don't need more worthless maggots like you running amok on the planet.

DISCLAIMER: This comment was in no way intended to convey animosity towards the [group I am not allowed to discriminate against] who make good, worthwhile comments. Wherever they may be.
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Nick
05/09/09

@Con Seannery '09: Illegal in 1 Giz: . . . you're nothing but a worthless [FACEBOOKERFACEBOOKER

i think your tirades are funnier with that in there.

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Nick
05/09/09

@867-5309_Nick: *facepalm

i miss preview button
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