[meteorite-list] Re: OT: MOON TRAVEL?

From: Charles Viau <cviau_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:02 2004
Message-ID: <000001c3db71$b0338660$1800a8c0_at_chupa>

It's just another confirming revelation of how important comets are to
everything that we know or do.

We are going to the moon to process the remains of comet impacts that
will provide us with the fuel to explore the solar system with some BIG
ships. Over 90% of the weight of our existing rockets is in the fuel
necessary to escape our planet with some relatively small payloads. Just
think of the kinds of vehicles we can launch from the moon!

Comets have caused drastic changes in the earth's environment, and if it
were not for them, we would not be here to contemplate them.

They also seed the solar system with the primitive amino acids that are
the building blocks of life. Again, we would not be here without them.

I think that going back to the moon is the most intelligent decision
this country has made in a long time, and it is really all about comets!

Go NASA!

CharlyV



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[mailto:meteorite-list-admin_at_meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of mark
ford
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:20 AM
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Subject: RE: [meteorite-list] Re: OT: MOON TRAVEL?




It's strange, I thought I would be excited about man going to Mars and
back to the moon!, but actually (assuming politics allow in anycase) if
this happens it will mean diverting all funding away from exciting
projects like the Mars Exploration Rovers (where genuine science can
happen at low cost).

If this goes ahead, I fear the US will be pumping funds into a really
deep dark hole

In any case the physical constraints of radiation shielding mean that a
man in a heavy space suit couldn't walk on the surface for more than a
few hours without getting nuked. What's the point of that?

 Better still would be to build a mars orbiting space station where
decent robots can be controlled in real-time and then bring up samples
to analyse in orbiting science labs.

Here's my idea:

Stick a couple of boosters on the international spacestation, surround
it with liquid water shielding and send it to orbit mars !

My 1.9p woth

Mark Ford




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