tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post3539887409897409331..comments2024-01-17T09:33:57.158-08:00Comments on Brain Rage: Obama's Budget Would Cut NASA's Moon PlanJBWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13293642610215334516noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-5565094346005356502010-02-07T17:40:25.523-08:002010-02-07T17:40:25.523-08:00Even if the first man on Mars is a woman one L, yo...Even if the first man on Mars is a woman one L, you can rest assured that the next person down the ladder will be a man. Who else would fly the spaceship?JBWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13293642610215334516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-10597058456392971542010-02-07T07:06:25.327-08:002010-02-07T07:06:25.327-08:00I don't get it either. What business do women...I don't get it either. What business do women have in space if there isn't a man to serve?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-82769429725746428542010-02-03T11:59:42.452-08:002010-02-03T11:59:42.452-08:00I don't get it, magpie: is there a bunch of di...I don't get it, magpie: is there a bunch of dirty dishes and laundry that needs folding on Mars right now? Kidding, ladies; kidding!JBWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13293642610215334516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-76033988236346213442010-02-03T05:06:24.919-08:002010-02-03T05:06:24.919-08:00Of course Apollo 11 was real. Not just 11 either, ...Of course Apollo 11 was real. Not just 11 either, 12 men in total have walked on the moon and others have flown around it. <br />It would be more difficult to construct and maintain the fiction than to achieve the reality.<br />I would believe Elvis is playing pool with aliens in Area 51 before I thought the lunar landing was a hoax.<br /><br />When the shuttles are retired shortly, the only way for American personnel to get into space, for a little while, will be to hitch a ride on Russian Soyuz capsules. <br />There is surprisingly little dismay about that. <br />Imagine telling that to your neighbors back in 1969, right after the eagle landed: "yeah but we'll lose interest in going to the moon and instead sink our money into a war in Indochina - which will fail - after which the Russians will have bigger problems than winning the cold war, and yet by 2011 we'll be relying on them to get us into space".<br />No sci fi writer in the world would have imagined such a scenario. Not even Russian ones.<br />China isn't going to be shy about space exploration either. <br /><br />Personally I would like to have the adventure of manned interplanetary exploration and settlement at least begin while I'm alive, because it's got to happen eventually if mankind is to have a future long term, and it would give the world a sense that there is indeed a future... and we're not just paying bills and upgrading our TV and twiddling our thumbs till the next mass extinction happens. <br /><br />I make one prediction of comparatively trivial detail:<br />The first man on Mars, American or not, will be a woman. <br /><br />Somehow I have a vision of it.magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08690258860393548951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-76012202291377660092010-02-02T18:14:51.701-08:002010-02-02T18:14:51.701-08:00In 2000 I was paid by the State of Ohio to make a ...In 2000 I was paid by the State of Ohio to make a film attempting to prove Apollo 11 was real. <br /><br />I was able to interview Buzz Aldrin, Gene Cernan, Karl Sendler, Guenter Wendt, Raplh Rene, ..look at moon rocks, send a giant laser to bounce off the reflector...<br /><br />Posted the whole thing on YOUTUBE. The Documentary film premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.<br /><br />here is link<br />http://www.youtube.com/user/Realitysurfer#p/u/2/gM3Mt1Vym3g<br /><br /><br />Please share on facebook...thanksAron Ranenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01972688295673840035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-90685248846800441602010-02-02T12:11:51.741-08:002010-02-02T12:11:51.741-08:00Space exploration is my own selfish indulgence, Le...Space exploration is my own selfish indulgence, Leslie. I know that now is not the best time to be spending that kind of money on what for the time being is mostly research but having come out of a booming economy for several years in which our space exploration was still a pittance of our entire budget I fear that there will never be a time when we embrace it until becomes absolutely necessary. And then it might be too late.JBWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13293642610215334516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5428824763182540039.post-80437040447000711172010-02-02T07:41:29.418-08:002010-02-02T07:41:29.418-08:00I have no desire to land on the moon or to go anyw...I have no desire to land on the moon or to go anywhere in space, but I agree that it's a shame to kill Constellation. I've always been excited about the space program and have always felt that it showed the ingenuity of our country.Leslie Parsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.com