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NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon | |
| DUCM900 Offer Upgrade  User ID: 31432812  Italy01/03/2013 07:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NASA mulls plan to drag asteroid into moon's orbit Who says NASA has lost interest in the moon? Along with rumours of a hovering lunar base, there are reports that the agency is considering a proposal to capture an asteroid and drag it into the moon's orbit. Researchers with the Keck Institute for Space Studies in California have confirmed that NASA is mulling over their plan to build a robotic spacecraft to grab a small asteroid and place it in high lunar orbit. The mission would cost about $2.6 billion – slightly more than NASA's Curiosity Mars rover – and could be completed by the 2020s.   full story here >>>> [link to www.newscientist.com] Last Edited by IWASTHERE on 01/03/2013 07:55 PM |
| Daniel of the Rose User ID: 15114131  United States01/03/2013 07:10 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NASA mulls plan to drag asteroid into moon's orbit Quoting: DUCM900 Who says NASA has lost interest in the moon? Along with rumours of a hovering lunar base, there are reports that the agency is considering a proposal to capture an asteroid and drag it into the moon's orbit. Researchers with the Keck Institute for Space Studies in California have confirmed that NASA is mulling over their plan to build a robotic spacecraft to grab a small asteroid and place it in high lunar orbit. The mission would cost about $2.6 billion – slightly more than NASA's Curiosity Mars rover – and could be completed by the 2020s. full story here >>>> [link to www.newscientist.com] more like dragging it to slam us....   |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 14093935 United States01/03/2013 07:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 29729001 United Kingdom01/03/2013 07:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You could hollow out that shit, resin the walls, fit airlocks, fit docking ports, hollow out water/waste storage tanks and have a huge solar array and docking port outside of it. It would be much easier to build a station on/in a hollowed out orbiting rock than putting up a station that is the size of an aircraft carrier. |
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| Crankgorilla User ID: 31444555  Australia01/03/2013 07:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Let us hope the dumb bastards who cannot see this as interesting, all just fuck off and take a long walk in a hot desert. It's ideas like this that are the real future of humanity. Not fucking TV screens and sitcoms and Ipods and all the other shit they shovel off to us as 'important'. Wake the fuck up! |
| amachiavellian User ID: 20940257  Canada01/03/2013 07:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Let us hope the dumb bastards who cannot see this as interesting, all just fuck off and take a long walk in a hot desert. Quoting: Crankgorilla 31444555 It's ideas like this that are the real future of humanity. Not fucking TV screens and sitcoms and Ipods and all the other shit they shovel off to us as 'important'. Wake the fuck up! Just speaking for me, but I find it highly interesting. 5* — read for knowledge, not answers. |
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| DUCM900 (OP) User ID: 31487670 Italy01/04/2013 11:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You mean that the moon will be an official planet as well?  ' Last Edited by IWASTHERE on 01/04/2013 11:37 AM |
Dr. Astro Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 4211721 United States01/04/2013 11:47 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | :spartaaa::spartasign: In all seriouness though, the proposed idea is to grab one that's only about 7 meters wide (so even if something went terribly wrong and it were to end up on an earth collision course which is extremely unlikely, it wouldn't do any damage anyway). [link to www.escapistmagazine.com]  |
| Dutchguy User ID: 1259147  China01/04/2013 11:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sounds a bit like the Iron Sky attack where the nazi's come to earth also dragging meteors to drop on big cities. I think it's quite effective and to have one on stand-by is just the cherry on the cake. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. F. Nietzsche There is no way of fixing Stupid. Politicians: You need to do what we say, Not say what we do.. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 22188579  France01/04/2013 11:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Who the heck is going to pay for this? I thought the U.S. of A. were bankrupt with an insane debt? Would Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos together with Richard Branson be able to pay for this project? I can't see how they will be able to pull this one off without private investors financing. I'd be happy if they send Obummy and Moochelle on orbit to the asteroid never to come back to Earth again. |
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| MONSTER User ID: 2122560 United States01/04/2013 12:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NASA mulls plan to drag asteroid into moon's orbit Quoting: DUCM900 Who says NASA has lost interest in the moon? Along with rumours of a hovering lunar base, there are reports that the agency is considering a proposal to capture an asteroid and drag it into the moon's orbit. Researchers with the Keck Institute for Space Studies in California have confirmed that NASA is mulling over their plan to build a robotic spacecraft to grab a small asteroid and place it in high lunar orbit. The mission would cost about $2.6 billion – slightly more than NASA's Curiosity Mars rover – and could be completed by the 2020s. full story here >>>> [link to www.newscientist.com] More money down the drain KINGDOMS, NATIONS AND KINGS HAVE BEEN BROUGHT DOWN TO THEIR KNEES WITH ONE GLANCE FROM A WOMAN. I WEAR MY SKIN OF ARMOR SO NO ONE CAN GET IN AND NO ONE CAN GET OUT. HOW CAN I MOURN YOU, WHEN I HAVE NEVER LET YOU GO, monster 1991-2008 RIP |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 22301087 United States01/04/2013 12:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Who the heck is going to pay for this? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 22188579 I thought the U.S. of A. were bankrupt with an insane debt? Would Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos together with Richard Branson be able to pay for this project? I can't see how they will be able to pull this one off without private investors financing. I'd be happy if they send Obummy and Moochelle on orbit to the asteroid never to come back to Earth again. $2.6 Billion? Hell, we have spent nearly half that sending King BO and his queen on vacations. I would rather spend it on a BAR than another 10 million Obamaphones |
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