Recent content by Rob77

Thank you also Space.com - I echo everyone's sentiments with genuine sadness with the forums closing down. I may be fairly new here and barely interacted with great minds, however have thoroughly enjoyed reading the posts and learning alot. Wishing everyone & Space.com the best! Cheers!

I believe Sierra Space is already doing this and in testing phase. https://www.sierraspace.com/commercial-space-stations/

The way I look at it is the way im looking at my car now - it has 310,000km on the clock. Every service theres something that needs replacing from wear and tear (usually each service adding up to around $1k now). It leaks oil (its a Subi thing), but rather than spending $5k to open it up...

I'm sure the think tanks at NASA would have explored all possibilities. Basically the ISS is old and leaks like a sieve. Its like buying a used car and keep pouring money into it to keep it running, but the technology is still the same and hard to integrate newer tech into it. Plus...

Interestingly, the moons orbit is continually increasing so any drag seems negligible due to other forces at work.

Doubt it, Russians were the first to put man in space, but don't think it slowed NASA's space program. JFK promised to put a man on moon by end of decade, so they were probably held to that.

I believed that in 2000 about 2010, then 2010 about 2020. I'm a bit older and wiser now so I wont hold my breath this time :)

Interesting - thanks for sharing. But aren't points 7 & 8 a contradiction?

If you happen to be correct, how much brighter will it appear to the naked eye?

This will become the norm soon, there's a lot more coming courtesy of Star link.

While this sounds like an ideal plan, realistically our technology in robotics is still too far away to do all those tasks you mentioned. We would be able to land humans a lot sooner before we can achieve all that. IMHO - the MARS mission will most likely play out just like the movie "the...

I doubt they would make contact with a farmer, that would go against their prime directive. But then again, even Picard was known to bend the rules.

Yeah - I'm in the "empirical evidence" camp on this one too. I have watched my fair share of UFO encounters, reports, even had family & friends swear they had seen UFO's. I have personally seen some questionable things in the night sky, but the lack of evidence is keeping me skeptical. I...

I normally have an open mind, but geez, that cracked me up.