NASA plans return to moon by 2020

[Scotty Mac]

Don't worry, there will be a massive Park and Ride site in the Sea of Tranquility

would litter patrols come with free space suits?

 

[Hannibal smith]

Or world poverty, aids vaccines, rebuilding of iraq etc etc.

I know it's gonna sound contraversial but i think it's immoral spending that much money on going into space when there's far more pressing issues back home

I disagree. At some point or other the sun will explode, kill us all and make the earth uninhabitable. The first step of exploration and moving to another planet has to be going to the nearest one to us with a view to going to the Mars.

There is no long term future for the human race on Earth. How can it not be a good idea to spend money on exploration?

 

[eastlondonseagull]

You think they're actually that far-thinking? To me it's more of a nation of small cocks trying to big themselves up

 

[maffew]

I disagree. At some point or other the sun will explode, kill us all and make the earth uninhabitable. The first step of exploration and moving to another planet has to be going to the nearest one to us with a view to going to the Mars.

There is no long term future for the human race on Earth. How can it not be a good idea to spend money on exploration?

Thats a wind up yeah?

anyway whats Mars gonna orbit when the sun blows up?

 

[Simster]

Or world poverty, aids vaccines, rebuilding of iraq etc etc.

I know it's gonna sound contraversial but i think it's immoral spending that much money on going into space when there's far more pressing issues back home

I take it you don't use a mobile phone or a television then?

 

[maffew]

I take it you don't use a mobile phone or a television then?

its one thing putting satellites in space for comminications and defence systems, though spending a 100bn to send someone to the moon in 20 years for the crack of it is quite wrong when theres so many problems to fix here and the US needed aid from the EU when their flood defences failed. I'd be f***ing livid if I was an American tax payer

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

I take it you don't use a mobile phone or a television then?

Course, but i didnt spend $104bn on them!

 

[Hannibal smith]

Thats a wind up yeah?

anyway whats Mars gonna orbit when the sun blows up?

No its not a wind up. Oil will also run out in around 70 years or so and Oxygen is running out (albeit very slowly). Both would make great Sun headlines - Surprised the tabloids haven't picked these ones up to be honest.

on your second point, Thats the whole point. To survive we would have to go a bit further than Mars. As an analogy we probably need to go to Australia from Britain. So far we have made it to Heathrow airport from the centre of London.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

No its not a wind up. Oil will also run out in around 70 years or so and Oxygen is running out (albeit very slowly). Both would make great Sun headlines - Surprised the tabloids haven't picked these ones up to be honest.

on your second point, Thats the whole point. To survive we would have to go a bit further than Mars. As an analogy we probably need to go to Australia from Britain. So far we have made it to Heathrow airport from the centre of London.

We're f*****d then, so no point wasting that cash

 

[maffew]

No its not a wind up. Oil will also run out in around 70 years or so and Oxygen is running out (albeit very slowly). Both would make great Sun headlines - Surprised the tabloids haven't picked these ones up to be honest.

on your second point, Thats the whole point. To survive we would have to go a bit further than Mars. As an analogy we probably need to go to Australia from Britain. So far we have made it to Heathrow airport from the centre of London.

 

[Hannibal smith]

We're f*****d then, so no point wasting that cash

All I can say it’s a good job, Christopher Columbus didn’t think ‘Sod this boating lark, I’ll stay in Rome and watch the Gladiators and the stoning’ or James Cook would went down his local and got hammered and played 3 card brag instead of exploring the world.

If you think of how far the human race has come in 2000 years, it is not unrealistic to think that we will be able to explore vast volumes of space in 2000 more – it is though if no-one invests in it.

 

[Simster]

I think we should sit here and wait for the aliens to arrive in big tripod fighting machines.

 

[Northstander]

The chances of anyone landing on Mars are a million to one

 

[Simster]

Course, but i didnt spend $104bn on them!

That's about £65billion.

Which is about £10 per per person on the planet. How much was your telly again?

 

[chip]

This works out at about US$32 per year per person in the USA. It will help many of their high-tech and aerospace companies, secure many jobs and lead to the development of new materials and technologies.

I'd rather we did that than, say, pay for the new deal, give £200 to each baby born to a poor family or any of the other Blair/Brown failed schemes. Its less than we will pay the EU over that period of time.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

That's about £65billion.

Which is about £10 per per person on the planet. How much was your telly again?

Free - my dad paid for it

 

[Simster]

Free - my dad paid for it

 

[Hannibal smith]

I think we should sit here and wait for the aliens to arrive in big tripod fighting machines.

As long as Will Smith and the president of the USofA can fly, we will send thier sorry asses right back where they came from.

You betcha.

 

[Simster]

As long as Will Smith and the president of the USofA can fly, we will send thier sorry asses right back where they came from.

You betcha.

Will Smith = MYOB, NSC Cybergeek and saviour of the human race by putting viruses on alien computers.

FACT.

 

[Superseagull]

If Nasa had carried on developing space exploration at the same rate as what was achieved in the 60's and 70's we would have been on Mars by the 1980's. NASA now needs billions of $ just to get the whole thing started again.

Instead the money was spent of Nuclear missiles and fighting pointless wars all over the world.