May 20, 20196 yr Author 2 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said: Shouldn't we be thinking long term and researching some sort of electromagnet catapult launch or space elevator or something? Catapult launch?
May 21, 20196 yr I really would like to see this plan happen ... really. I've been bit too many times to be enthusiastic yet. Make EM-1 happen by the end of 2020, and we'll talk again.
May 21, 20196 yr 23 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said: Shouldn't we be thinking long term and researching some sort of electromagnet catapult launch or space elevator or something? Stargate. What could go wrong?
May 21, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, RamjetFDO said: Make EM-1 happen by the end of 2020, and we'll talk again. What things are missing to make that happen?
May 21, 20196 yr 1 minute ago, relapse98 said: What things are missing to make that happen? A vehicle.
May 21, 20196 yr 1 minute ago, RamjetFDO said: A vehicle. Then a 18 month timeframe is completely doable! Ignore what I said about it not happening, I was wrong.
May 21, 20196 yr 19 minutes ago, relapse98 said: Then a 18 month timeframe is completely doable! Ignore what I said about it not happening, I was wrong. I know, right? Let's do this!
May 22, 20196 yr 18 hours ago, El Diablo said: Big. Ass. Ramp. Then just walk up. Why walk when you can ride:
May 22, 20196 yr I yanked that pic from this site: https://bgr.com/2018/09/04/space-elevator-japan-jaxa-prototype/ I have no idea how legitimate that site is, but the linked article, if halfway legit, tells me we are behind Japan in long term R&D for space exploration.
May 26, 20196 yr Well, we have the vehicle sorted....or maybe we don't?https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/nasa-head-rules-out-spacex-rockets-for-2024-moon-mission/There's a hardcore "SLS or bust" faction within NASA that may end up killing this date because of it.
May 26, 20196 yr 5 hours ago, RamjetFDO said: ...or maybe we don't?https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/nasa-head-rules-out-spacex-rockets-for-2024-moon-mission/ There's a hardcore "SLS or bust" faction within NASA that may end up killing this date because of it. Lot can change in 4-5 years. Between Musk, Bezos, and all the other private money, they might force the hands of those “SLS or bust” guys. Especially if other countries demonstrate an insurmountable lead that NASA can’t overcome without outside help
June 7, 20196 yr 1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said: Change of plans boys. for all of his ego, it seems like Trump forgets he's President at times. But I guess this allows him to take credit for executed and non-executed ideas.
June 7, 20196 yr Stop talking about landing on the moon again, NASA. Focus on Mars, which necessarily includes first landing on the moon again.
June 7, 20196 yr On 5/20/2019 at 1:15 PM, High Plains Drifter said: Shouldn't we be thinking long term and researching some sort of electromagnet catapult launch or space elevator or something? I believe the phrase you are looking for is "steam powered". You dont want to upset the dotard, or this plan will never get off the ground.
June 7, 20196 yr “The moon is a part of Mars” Crazy thing your anti-vaxxer neighbor thing says? Or crazy thing the president says? Could be a game show.
June 8, 20196 yr Author 4 hours ago, Trey3216 said: Let’s just surprise everyone and go to Europa, Io, and Callipso...simultaneously You're taking crazy pills - He only asked for an additional $1.6 billion. Europa alone will cost like $2.6 billion. On a serious note, this has to be scary for NASA. Not that they had made any major moves in the past two months or anything (and having visited Johnson Space Center recently, they still have an emphasis on Mars for the kiddos). @RamjetFDO probably has a lot of thoughts and words on this.
June 8, 20196 yr 12 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said: You're taking crazy pills - He only asked for an additional $1.6 billion. Europa alone will cost like $2.6 billion. On a serious note, this has to be scary for NASA. Not that they had made any major moves in the past two months or anything (and having visited Johnson Space Center recently, they still have an emphasis on Mars for the kiddos). @RamjetFDO probably has a lot of thoughts and words on this. Your sarcasm detector is broken
June 8, 20196 yr Author 21 minutes ago, Neonmoon said: I have a compromise. Let’s go to one of the Moons of Mars. And we can mine it and use it to build a space elevator to Mars.
June 8, 20196 yr Author https://www.space.com/president-trump-tweet-nasa-moon-plans.html Quote There are probably some frantic emails flying between NASA headquarters and the White House right now. In a tweet today (June 7), President Donald Trump appeared to signal a lack of support for NASA's current push to put people on the moon in the 2020s — a push that he officially kicked off in December 2017 with the signing of Space Policy Directive 1 (SPD-1) and backed with a proposed funding increase just last month. Quote SPD-1 directs NASA to establish a long-term, sustainable presence on and around the moon, and to use the experience gained in this effort to reach the ultimate human-spaceflight destination: Mars. So, the somewhat confusing latter part of the president's tweet — calling the moon a part of Mars — may be a reference to the horizon goal laid out in SPD-1. NASA has organized its crewed lunar plans into a program called Artemis, which includes the construction of a small, moon-orbiting space station known as the Gateway. The space agency initially targeted the late 2020s for the first crewed lunar landing since the end of the Apollo era, but the timeline was recently moved up significantly: In March, Vice President Mike Pence instructed NASA to make it happen by 2024. Last month, Trump proposed giving NASA an extra $1.6 billion in 2020 to help achieve this ambitious goal. It's unclear at the moment if today's tweet represents a substantial shift in thinking at the White House about NASA's goals and direction. And this ambiguity has spurred some in the spaceflight community to call on the president to explain fully what he means.
June 8, 20196 yr Please tell me SNL is working on a skit with Will Ferrell & Alec Baldwin on "Space: The Infinite Frontier" with Harry Caray and President Trump Mr. President, we now know the moon is not made of green cheese, but rather is part of Mars!
June 8, 20196 yr 7 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said: Let’s shock the nation and go to Venus. First step to colonizing the sun. Venus is actually quite habitable as long as we stay at cloud level. So we just gotta build Jetsons style colonies.
June 8, 20196 yr Venus is actually quite habitable as long as we stay at cloud level. So we just gotta build Jetsons style colonies.We haven’t pulled that off here yet.
June 8, 20196 yr Isn’t he saying our plan is going to Mars, and part of that plan is going to the Moon (yes I realize it is poorly worded from a retard)
June 8, 20196 yr 2 minutes ago, Neonmoon said: Isn’t he saying our plan is going to Mars, and part of that plan is going to the Moon (yes I realize it is poorly worded from a retard) Yes
June 8, 20196 yr Author 3 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said: Venus is actually quite habitable as long as we stay at cloud level. So we just gotta build Jetsons style colonies. So is Austin.
June 8, 20196 yr Author 1 hour ago, Neonmoon said: Isn’t he saying our plan is going to Mars, and part of that plan is going to the Moon (yes I realize it is poorly worded from a retard) That. Or he’s fallen under the spell of the camp that thinks a Lunar base is needed for Mars. Which will delay any Mars missions by a long time, and runs the risk of the public losing interest as the costs skyrocket even more than just focusing on Mars. Not to mention an accident or two that kills astronauts run the risk of shutting down manned flight.
June 8, 20196 yr Author Now we know how it’s going to be paid for. https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-international-space-station-commercialization-tourists-2019-6?r=US&IR=T&utm_source=reddit.com Quote NASA rolled out a new, multi-part plan on Friday that'd dramatically open the doors of International Space Station (ISS) to commercial companies, facilities, and even private astronauts. NASA already permits some commercial activity on the ISS, but the agency said it's looking to boost its offerings to companies so that "innovation and ingenuity can accelerate a thriving commercial economy in low-Earth orbit." It's even seeing this new push as a way to fully commercialize and even replace the space station, making budgetary room for renewed lunar exploration with people. One big change in NASA's five-part vision is to enable "private astronauts to conduct approved commercial and marketing activities on the space station." Quote NASA now says it will allow private astronauts — two per year — to stay up to 30 days each on the space station. The conditions: They have to get there via a commercial US spacecraft, such as SpaceX's or Boeing's upcoming vehicles, and pay $35,000 per day to cover for NASA's life support, communications, and other expenses (like $50 per gigabyte of data). Richard Garriott, an English-American entrepreneur who paid $30 million for a two-week stay on the ISS in 2008, called the move a "seismic shift" in US space policy. Garriott is one of seven private astronauts who have visited the ISS, and only because Russia was willing to take them. A decade ago, he said, NASA aggressively resisted their presence on the government-run facility. But the agency couldn't prevent private citizens' stays on the ISS due to international agreements and conventions. "The deck was stacked very much against commercial activity on the space station," Garriott told Business Insider. "Almost all of us who flew privately literally had NASA either try to talk us out of it or try to ban us at one stage or another."
June 8, 20196 yr 4 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said: Venus is actually quite habitable as long as we stay at cloud level. So we just gotta build Jetsons style colonies. Ask Wang, he’ll tell ya! We just bought 500 acres behind Venus...on the good side.
June 8, 20196 yr 6 hours ago, Neonmoon said: Isn’t he saying our plan is going to Mars, and part of that plan is going to the Moon (yes I realize it is poorly worded from a retard) That’s how I interpreted it. But he starts the tweet by telling NASA to stop talking about going to the moon because we did that already, then seemingly acknowledges that getting back to the moon is step one. It’s a really odd tweet, so I can understand NASA being confused/concerned about him changing the directive after they’ve made substantial steps in outlining the mission goals.
June 8, 20196 yr Author 16 minutes ago, SquishMitten said: It’s a really odd tweet, so I can understand NASA being confused/concerned about him changing the directive after they’ve made substantial steps in outlining the mission goals. Let’s hope NASA is run better than the City of Austin, otherwise, they’ve already dropped $20 million on interpretative artists who are embedded in the astronaut corps, and who are busying readying their sculptures and paintings for what they think living on the moon will be like.
June 9, 20196 yr 10 hours ago, Jkwellborn said: We haven’t pulled that off here yet. The upper atmosphere of Venus is, as far as we know, the most earth like place in the solar system ... Its clouds are opaque sulfuric acid and the atmosphere is CO2. The russian probes were awesome
June 13, 20196 yr Easy Peasy: The US Navy secretly designed a super-fast futuristic aircraft resembling a UFO, documents reveal Quote ‘It is possible to reduce the inertial mass and hence the gravitational mass, of a system/object in motion, by an abrupt perturbation of the non-linear background of local spacetime,’ the patent says. The craft described in the patent features a cavity wall filled with gas, which is then made to vibrate using powerful electromagnetic waves. This then creates a vacuum around the craft, allowing it to propel itself at high speeds. The UFO-style ship can be used in water, air or even space. ‘It is possible to envision a hybrid aerospace/undersea craft (HAUC), which due to the physical mechanisms enabled with the inertial mass reduction device, can function as a submersible craft capable of extreme underwater speeds… and enhanced stealth capabilities,’ the patent continues. ‘This hybrid craft would move with great ease through the air/space/water mediums, by being enclosed in a vacuum plasma bubble/sheath.’ Although the US Navy applied for the patent in 2016 and it was granted last year, it doesn’t necessarily mean the craft has been built and tested. However, the technology is further evidence of the military’s interest in developing ‘exotic’ technologies. Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/18/us-navy-secretly-designed-super-fast-futuristic-aircraft-resembling-ufo-documents-reveal-9246755/?ito=cbshare Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetroUK | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/ https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/18/us-navy-secretly-designed-super-fast-futuristic-aircraft-resembling-ufo-documents-reveal-9246755/
June 13, 20196 yr Please someone teach that fucking idiot about Dyson spheres so he can tweet about having to build one by 2020 so we can solve America's energy crisis
June 13, 20196 yr It is about damn time that we invent a better propulsion than “rocket”. We’re never gonna reach another star system with chemical rockets.
June 13, 20196 yr Routine, safe travel to anywhere off planet is DOA unless the military coughs up some the technology they have been using for the last 70 years.
June 13, 20196 yr 46 minutes ago, Dolemite said: Routine, safe travel to anywhere off planet is DOA unless the military coughs up some the technology they have been using for the last 70 years. What technology, the stuff concealed near Roswell?
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