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billslugg
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Why is it so hard to send humans back to the moon?
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The only thing I've come across is a claim by geologists that only the human eye, on site, walking around looking at rocks can determine...
Apr 26, 2024
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Are we prepared for Chinese preeminence on the moon and Mars? (op-ed)
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There is no such thing as "a production system more advanced than the capitalist one" (the open systemic first half freer frontier one...
Apr 25, 2024
billslugg
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Are we prepared for Chinese preeminence on the moon and Mars? (op-ed)
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Capitalism is where we have the right to hold property and trade it. In all other systems, someone else decides what happens to your stuff.
Apr 25, 2024
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Armed Astronauts?
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No weapons, weight is too precious when going that far away. When they arrive, they will do a careful external visual inspection before...
Apr 25, 2024
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"Between 1960 and 1973, NASA spent $28 billion developing the rockets, spacecraft and ground systems needed for what became the Apollo...
Apr 25, 2024
billslugg
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Why is it so hard to send humans back to the moon?
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The year before Armstrong set foot on the Moon, US spending on NASA peaked at 4% of GDP. In today's money that would be 1,000 billion...
Apr 24, 2024
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There is a way to know....now!
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You have to give more info than this to get folks serious interest. For instance, where did these calculations come from? And, how have...
Apr 24, 2024
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Temperature on the Moon?
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Radiant heat, conduction and convection are the ways energy transfers and there is no conduction or convection between the ground and...
Apr 24, 2024
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Temperature on the Moon?
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This is a bubble of hot gas inside a large room with freezing cold walls. How did such hot gas get that far out into the cosmos without...
Apr 24, 2024
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Does the solar system have an end?
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Do you mean an end in space, ie: size or an end in time? The answer is yes to both! In space it's just beyond the Oort Cloud, in time...
Apr 23, 2024
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Do We Exist Inside a Black Hole?
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In outer space there is no preferred location, every location sees itself as being at the center of the observable universe. There is...
Apr 22, 2024
billslugg
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Do We Exist Inside a Black Hole?
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For a sufficiently large black hole, one would not know they were going through the event horizon. The tidal forces are less and less...
Apr 22, 2024
billslugg
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How could life survive on tidally locked planets?
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Because of the star's proximity, the atmosphere of such a planet is probably pretty much gone. The day side of the planet would heat any...
Apr 22, 2024
billslugg
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Why is it so hard to send humans back to the moon?
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There is no reason to send humans to the Moon. There is nothing to do there that bots can't handle. The only reason we did it in 1969...
Apr 22, 2024
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Why is it so hard to send humans back to the moon?
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All Apollo learnings are, and always have been, public. Subscribe to NASA Technical Briefs for all the details.
Apr 22, 2024
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