Revealed: Nasa plan to 'lasso' asteroid the size of two buses and turn it into a 'space station' to orbit the moon

1 star? lol what a joke you are!

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So now I guess the whole "use a moon as a craft" idea isn't so off the chart when NAZA themselves are up for it?

What say you?

I just can't imagine the money to be spent on this 'project' - and for who's benefit?

The money will have to be inside their budget... and their budget is virtually nothing compared to defense spending, the useless war on drugs etc... so I wouldn't sweat too much about the cash if I were you.

As for who benefits?

Hm... the entire human race does.

It's a pretty radical idea but I think it has merit, plus learning how to run down, lasso, hogtie and manipulate asteroids is very useful for mining applications.

Nice find.

I'd say that plan has a few bugs to work out.

How though?

1.6 Billion British Pounds? Now I know Obama is a British Subject.

Run for the Hills.

Actually, the idea has great merit.

Learn how to lasso them and remote fly them around, and the direct one of the proper size to destroy a nation or ten.

I can't understand the utility of a big assed rock, in orbit or not.

Yeah - remember it is NAZA we are talking about - the master mind fuckers!

That I give them...

Lolwut

Lol.

If we could do this, we would have already done it..

Global Warming.. Every planet is heating up.

If Human can control the orbit of an Asteroid we would be able to safe keep the Earth.

Don't forget SS and Medicare/caid. Majority of US budget now.

NASA builds prestige, brings grads and research to the US. War on Terror and Medicare does not.

how??????? the moon is a hologram i thought???

maybe nasa released this to trick us into thinking the moon is real!!!!!!

apparently they went to the moon, years ago. so instead of landing there again, and having 40 years to build a base and station with the capability of launching moon orbiting stations to accommodate space travel during that time. they now resort to a outlandish plan to "lasso" a asteroid...



am I missing something here?

astro debunk

Hey thanks for the pin :)

[link to www.thelivingmoon.com] has a great forum related to all these kind of NAZA shenanigans!

Especially the 'old' NAZA plans of Moon-bases and renderings that were dated in the 60s!

The first step in opening up the rest of the universe for mankind to dwell.

We can't stay stuck here forever.
This planet is doomed after all.



Some minds are rather fragile, and can be fucked-over by as little as speaking the truth.



The Daily Mail is British rag.
They don't care about these 'dollars' of yours.


A barrage of ICBMs would accomplish in 30 minutes what your project would take a year to do.

Asteroids you can see coming, btw.

Just can't seem to agree with you on many things, so lets agree to disagree!

Back to Secret Space Ops - this is the all time thread on the subject of what you never ever knew...until now that is...

[link to www.thelivingmoon.com]

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this is the stupidest thing i ever heard.Why not just continue to operate earths space station and make it bigger.Maybe even build a long elevator from earth to the station,not exactly but away to travel.

That statement makes no sense whatsoever.

By your "logic" we have already done everything we can possibly do and can never advance any further because if we could... we'd already have done it?

@OP, it benefits humanity, you need to think in big picture long term ways.
It advances our space exploration and engineering capabilities.

We have to take these steps in order to progress to more advanced efforts in space exploration.

I wonder are you the kind of person that questions the point of space programs?
The list of things that space programs have improved and created and made possible for us back here on Earth is huge, if you don't know please do a little research, you may be surprised.

People who say "what benefit would this be?" in regards to space based projects really mean, "how does this benefit me in my lifetime?"

It likely won't benefit you or me in our lifetimes directly, but we're talking about the future of our entire species, like I said, think long term, big picture.

Maybe your grandkids will be part of a new resource boom on the asteroid mines and strike it rich?

The 2020 asteroid rush, space prospectors, private mining ships, the potential is limitless... but it all has to start somewhere and projects like this are the first steps.

This is exactly the type of project our country needs. Something to take pride in and strive for finally. Since the race to the moon there has been nothing our country could boast about. Look how our economy flourished during this time period, NASA and the companies who produced their tools created so many jobs. I hope this does the same.

We're frickin' screwed!

Our biggest extraterrestrial threat to Earth is comets.

That's a totally separate issue and has nothing to do with this.

The point here is to establish a pitstop for Mars missions.
The ability to refuel, refit, refresh vessel and crew at the Moon before continuing on to Mars would make things immeasurably easier.

After a while a well developed orbital base using resources mined from the asteroid itself could be used to launch missions (instead of being a mere pitstop), construct craft in orbit... which means you are not wasting fuel getting out of Earths gravity, your craft design is not limited by the fact that it has to launch from Earth... that makes a massive difference to the game.

This is the kind of project that opens the door to constructing BIG ships... very big ships.

The chance of being hit my a comet outweighs being hit by a Asteroid 100fold. The chances of being hit by a comet outweighs being killed by our Sun.

Gotta love how Nasa once again stupidly provides information that they are wasting a shit ton of money on trying to distract people from the truth. Circus sideshow

I think this is a good first step into getting man farther into space, possibly to another planet if they can survive on the asteroid.

However, is this saying something about Earth? Obviously its over crowded, but is it more than that? Are our resources almost gone or is this space cloud were in harmful?

Besides, does NASA even have the technology to stablize Mars? They found water on it sure, but the temps are too hot/cold and you'd need some pretty high tech shit to make it suitable for man.

If man ever gets there, hopefully the martians won't kick our flag down again

I'm pretty sure Wild E. Coyote used this same technique trying to catch the roadrunner

......it didn't end well