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All of the "Foundation" series novels by Isaac Asimov, I'm pretty much convinced WE may be it, at least in this Galaxy. | |
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A total of twelve men have landed on the Moon. This was accomplished with two US pilot-astronauts flying a Lunar Module on each of six NASA missions across a 41-month time span starting on 21 July 1969 UTC, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11, and ending on 14 December 1972 UTC with Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt on Apollo 17 (with Cernan being the last to step off the lunar surface). The programme stopped with lack of funding. We haven't returned because NASA's budget was slashed during the Apollo program. We went to the Moon for political reasons; it was a matter of national pride. Once we beat the Soviets, the taxpayers didn't want to see their money wasted on a project that they believed wouldn't benefit them. It's not cheap to go to the Moon, and NASA was forced to realign its priorities. | |
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Damn budgets, always getting in the way of progress! | |
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A total of twelve men have landed on the Moon. This was accomplished with two US pilot-astronauts flying a Lunar Module on each of six NASA missions across a 41-month time span starting on 21 July 1969 UTC, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11, and ending on 14 December 1972 UTC with Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt on Apollo 17 (with Cernan being the last to step off the lunar surface). I would say that the primary reason for such a break was that the mission had been accomplished----> To arrive to the Moon at the end of the 60´s and last but not least, to win the race between the USA and the Soviet Union. After that the Russians (Soviets) were beaten to the ground, so something else could be done in a different front. ____________    | |
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Damn budgets, always getting in the way of progress! It's only TOO EXPENSIVE because the Military-Industrial complex controls the US now...has for a long time.... If there was a military necessity to control Mars, we would have been there a long time ago... Lt | |
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It's only TOO EXPENSIVE because the Military-Industrial complex controls the US now...has for a long time.... I would have thought that the strong possibility of the Chinese building the first permanent manned Moonbase, and charging the USA exorbitant rates for B&B, would have galvanised them into action. Apparently not. Even having to hitch rides from the Russians, of all people, to the ISS doesn't seem to bother them. Why this fascination with the asteroids, have they discovered gold or diamond mines there? Oooooh a new conspiracy theory ...... | |
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/humor | |
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Accountants are the reason i will never fly on Concorde, probably the most significant plane since the Wright brothers, a fact i find deeply saddening. I was at Filton airport in November 2003, when Concorde touched down for the last time, and even then in my adolescent years, i felt a great sense of loss at the passing of an Era. | |
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Not just accountants. With only 20 aircraft built, their development represented a substantial economic loss, in addition to which Air France and British Airways (BA) were subsidised by their governments to buy them. As a result of the type’s only crash on 25 July 2000, world economic effects following 9/11, and other factors, its retirement flight was on 26 November 2003. | |
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Not just accountants. I'm happy to blame politicians as well if you like... ____________  Chemists have all the solutions! Skype me: simonator### (one zero one) | |
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It's only TOO EXPENSIVE because the Military-Industrial complex controls the US now...has for a long time.... Obama's announcement about going to an asteroid was a red herring. He knew by declaring this as NASA's next goal for manned space flight that no more manned flights by a US sponsored spacecraft would occur during his Presidency making it easier to furthe cut NASA's budget. ____________ Bob DeWoody | |
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All the money spent 2 trillion ways to kill somebody and if we had all that no one would be broke., we could be using it for better thing. | |
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All the money spent 2 trillion ways to kill somebody and if we had all that no one would be broke., we could be using it for better thing. Nah, the politicians would have found other ways to line their pockets and waste it. ____________ Bob DeWoody | |
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Well, the Dawn spacecraft, powered by the Sun, has visited the asteroid Vesta and is now sailing to Ceres on solar power. It should arrive there in 2015. Ceres is a dwarf planet more than an asteroid. | |
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All the money spent 2 trillion ways to kill somebody and if we had all that no one would be broke., we could be using it for better thing. all the army money spent in equipment, research, wars, stamples, and salaries. and that all around the world ____________ | |
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Well, back from "The Okie-Tex Star Party"; it was almost a bust since we had only three nights clear enough to do any astro-photography. | |
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Hey now. only having a little fun. Being a Texas resident and an Asimov fan I thought it was interesting that a man that dresses for the farm/ranch would be a scifi fan and not more of a western fan. | |
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Hey ! | |
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Tex if you read any of the other posts on this forum you will realise quickly that a subject never stays on "message" very long,if it stays in line with the origonal subject for more than the first few posts its a miricle | |
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