[Closed] The Moon. Why left alone? Or has it?

Money

I believe it has been a long time since any human visited the moon

Because in these HD days it’s too hard to fake the images.
Back in the day you just made the film a bit grainy and everyone believed you.
I thought everyone* knew that!

*who know the real truths of the world...

Lizards

I saw a documentary about a Nazi base on the dark side of the moon.

*who know the real truths of the world...

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Money and it’s been studied.

Truthfully Manned space travel is a bit of a folly these days, there’s not much benefit to building a massive craft with life support and whatnot for a human to hold something you can mount on a robot that you don’t have to bring back.

Russia have been working on spacesuits in a lunar gravity simulator, and 3ish years ago China announced they were going to put a man on the moon
That said China’s lunar rover they landed learnt more that any astronaut that’s been, so why waste money sending a person

I'm kinda between weve never been or the nazi's have a secret base there. maybe only nazi lizards have been.

benz - Member
I believe it has been a long time since any human visited the moon. Why?

why do you want to visit the moon?

The Poles could do it for half the price. Cheaper for cash.

I'm kinda between weve never been or the nazi's have a secret base there. maybe only nazi lizards have been.

It’s all been done, what’s left can be done from a lab in Staines now.

I learned the other day that’s China plonked a rover on it last year, quite why I have no idea.

If you are interested in this, check out Quest TV for thier “space”season..

The Poles could do it for half the price. Cheaper for cash.

And they will throw in a tazer

Where did my knowing wink go at the end of my post??? I’m not one of them!!!

The clangers got awful cross and refused permission for any more flights

Because it's been done and it proved pretty pointless? At best it was a boys own adventure at worst a pure willy waving contest. *

* I still always think of this when anyone mentions moon landings

I’m not one of them!!!

That's what THEY want you to think.

Glad they've left it alone. Shhhhhhhhhh but there's some great cheeky trails up there. Low gravity means some massive air.

I took this photo last night up there on a night ride.

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You also don't need a particularly bright front light as the moon glows.

The Americans discovered it wasn't made of cheese after all.

Pah, what do the Americans know about cheese? They think it comes out of a tube.

I so hope you’re kidding...

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"A tube"?! Not in the upper echelons...

You have seen the documentary "Iron Sky"?

^^^ don’t think we’ve forgotten that time you tried to crash it into the Earth back in the 80s 😡

It was actually just a bit boring and nobody could be arsed anymore.

Cant they just send Tom Hanks again?

China plonked a rover on it last year

I learned the other day that’s China plonked a rover on it last year, quite why I have no idea.

Pff, someone managed a B52 once...

It's a big rock. We have them here too. We'll go back but right now there's not that much point.

It's unintuitive but manned space exploration only really made sense because we lacked the technology to do it remotely. If you just want to go and have a look and drill holes in rock there's no reason to send a dude any more. Little robots lack the wow factor of Armstrongs but they're way harder to make, I mean, [i]I[/i] could make a human with a total project team of 2 but I couldn't make a little space robot.

trongs but they're way harder to make, I mean, I could make a human with a total project team of 2 but I couldn't make a little space robot.

Recruitment of a willing second team member may prove a struggle, if you put it like that...

‘You’re easier than a space robot...’

tomhoward - Member

Recruitment of a willing second team member may prove a struggle

Correct

Mate of mine was working with NASA to open a Wetherspoons on the moon. They had to give up though, there was no atmosphere.

Scapegoat - Member
Mate of mine was working with NASA to open a Wetherspoons on the moon. They had to give up though, there was no atmosphere.

Sounds perfect for a ‘spoons

There would still be that one guy sitting outside with a pint at 9am though.

whatever happened to plans for tourist flights to the moon for the mega rich?

Ger off mi land ya bastards!

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We will go back to the moon and we will build a manned base there, especially since we know there is water ice there, so a good staging post for manned missions further afield. However we're not going there until we've invented these....

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We'll go back once we've developed an economic way to mine the hell out of it.

Wobbliscot
So secret in fact that pics aren't allowed ... 😀

Risk assessments probably come into play as well.
Quite difficult to take everything you need to get to the moon, land on it, do stuff, take off and get back. Lot of chances for explosions.

I read something somewhere that NASA calculated that with their original schedule of manned trips to the moon that they'd loose one crew of the originally planned trips (10 or 12 i think). At which point the whole program would shut up shop. As it is, they realised that the moon was pretty dull and not really worth visiting again. So they only did 6.

Then blew up two shuttles. 😕

Well I was chatting to a Flat Earther at the weekend who was explaining that what looks a lot like craters on the moon are actually "plumes from the cold fire".

So umm.. I guess that's why?

Holy **** you couldn't make it up.

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[url= https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-space/trump-wants-to-send-u-s-astronauts-back-to-moon-someday-mars-idUSKBN1E51QP ]“We are the leader and we’re going to stay the leader, and we’re going to increase it many fold,” Trump said in signing “Space Policy Directive 1” that establishes a foundation for a mission to the moon with an eye on going to Mars.[/url]

I read that, odd to think him being a republican could comprehend such a thought.

Well if NK have got nukes, then its time to build a mega laser on the moon - obvious really.

No need. There's a reflector on the moon, just shoot mega laser at it and bounce it back to NK.

There's only one use for the moon and that's blackjack and hookers.

Trump may have said that but he's made no financial promises. Similarly, in recent years, NASA's focus has been getting to Mars: Now they need to change their focus again to the Moon. Poor ole NASA won't know what's what.

mikey74 - Member
...Now they need to change their focus again to the Moon. Poor ole NASA won't know what's what.

Can't tell Mars from Uranus?

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Isn't he suggesting that going to the moon could be a stepping stone for getting to Mars? Is this an actual stepping stone with a lunar launch base because it takes a lot less energy to launch from the low G Moon than it does Earth or is he just a F***wit?*

*That's a rhetorical question - it really doesn't need answering.

Well, if he says so...
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Trump's only interested in the Moon because he heard they played golf there.

I get the feeling it is purely political, like the original "space race" was USA and Russia playing a willy-waving game, you get the feeling that Trump wants something that will improve his popularity with his patriot mates and leave a stamp on his term as president.

He could do just that by stating he’s going to Build a Wall, and make them pay for it..

There is some proper daft talk in this thread.

There are no Nazi's on the moon, the aliens probably killed them all - and then warned NASA off.

Here this will help - and don't reply with your jpg artefact evidence;

Ironically, for someone obsessed with the advancement of fossil-fuel friendly legislation, the surface of the moon could well be a very important source of Helium 3, a potential fuel for fusion reactors.

Whoever gets there first and develops the technology to Helium 3 in industrial quantities holds the key to making a fortune in the latter half of the century and beyond.

Whoever gets there first and develops the technology to Helium 3 in industrial quantities holds the key to making a fortune in the latter half of the century and beyond.

I for one will welcome our new cheese-eating, nazi-killing overlords.

😀

You can just imagine a Trump tweet.

'China steals our Helium 3 from the moon.Sad'
😉

To be honest I'm more surprised that Trump isn't a flat earther.

GrahamS - Member
To be honest I'm more surprised that Trump isn't a flat earther.

Don’t think he has the capacity to see that far.

There are no Nazi's on the moon