Please Hamneggs…....Add Hilary to the list!!!!!

Given the rate that we are destroying our earth, we will need someplace else to go in the future. People will say that the money used in the space program should be used for domestic problems here on earth. The problem is that it won’t be used for that. The Pentagon will continue their conquest for power,resources and control of other countries through conquest and building and using weapons of mass destruction. The private corporations will gain control of space research and humans will have to pay through the teeth to get off this ruined planet.

Next time they “go”, they should turn the engine on and create a bit of a moon dust storm.

Last time they landed, they appeared to use a crane and didn’t disturb a speck of moon dust which was very impressive.

http://davesweb.cnchost.com/Apollo5.html

Tony

The Spirit of America, according to we? 

Why do I picture a flying microwave with Native Americans straped to it going through space? Now we seem tp have a picture of the real Spirit of America!

Who decides, what America wants?

In one’s own mind, keeping a few steps ahead of others becomes so very important, that is to say,  being full of ones self may otherwise become meaningless.

Going back to the moon would require ten times more than NASA admits, since work is done by the greedy profit driven military sector. It would prove nothing.

We need to find a cheap way to put stuff into space orbit, and assisted launch is the solution.
http://www.g2mil.com/skyramp.htm

hello again. the last great frontier is over. the only chance we have to survive as a race is here on Earth. exploring space is an adventure, and has collateral benefits. do you own a microwave oven? these are the rights i write of, not imperialistic ownership of space. new technologies benefiting mankind, that being in the drivers seat come from us. i do not like waiting for hand me downs, that is not in my genes. i want for Americans to remain on the forward edge. i take exception at your imperialistic dialogue, yet i pray for your psychology to embrace the spirit of America.

“..we should stay in the drivers seat and go where America wants to go. completing the NASA project maintains our leadership and proprietary rights.”

  Sadly, this is the typical psychology of imperialism, full scale dominance and American exceptionalism.  This way of thinking perpetuates war, conquest and conflict, and shows almost complete lack of empathy for fellow human beings. “Proprietary rights”?  What makes anyone think America (or any other country or agency) has “proprietary rights” to space, space exploration, space governance, space exploitation? Too much “Star Wars”!
  Why not see it as an opportunity to cooperate? That opportunity may be our last chance to survive.

hello. expanding the playing field is great, but you do not bet on safety and performance. we have a new rocket and system in place nearing completion, why not proceed with NASA to have a backup plan, if commercial competitors start as Wylie Coyote? our space program, our progress in space, should not be relegated to hitching a ride. we should stay in the drivers seat and go where America wants to go. completing the NASA project maintains our leadership and proprietary rights. this is the second to last government program to cut. i would barter the office of the presidency at the UN before cutting a space program.

Going to the moon with tax payers money sounds kind of like socialism to me, maybe even pinko like the bile out!

The entire space program (including SDI, as the Russians and Chinese know full well) is and always has been a cover for the militarization and military ownership and hegemony of space, contrary to numerous treaties and agreements the US has cynically signed then ignored, as is the long-standing pattern.  Sending people to the moon was a PR strategy to put a human face and garner public support (and public funding) for high-tech research that was and is then put into private hands for private profit when a product that can be mass-marketed to consumers is developed, the tried-and-true “socialize the risks - privatize the profit” technique method of US National Socialism, and the de facto means by which the corporations enrich themselves at public expense (in other words, corporate welfare).  It was cheaper even back in the late 1960s to do without the human cargo, but imperialism, militarism, and the quest for corporate profit at the expense of programs of social uplift is never popular among those who must pay the costs.  It sells much better when the pork-barrel reality of enriching the already rich and further concentration of elite power is disguised with mass appeals to Anglo-American superiority and slogans supportive of patriotic mythologies.

Now is definitely NOT the time to continue a farcical trip to put
humans back on the moon because of…MONEY!

All the trip would be is to return more of OUR money to people
more related to defense contractors than anything that would be
beneficial for something on the moon, better to create a bunch
of rectal probes to see if our government’s brains are stuck so
far up their ass that a hydrologic enema would be able to free
them.

International collaboration is a great idea, as anything that happens to the earth from outer space would include the whole earth.  International collaboration makes sense, as shared funding responsibility would be easier on each nation to accomplish a unified goal, but would cut out United States private enterprise domination in space that would have to be dealt with by the Permanent Members of the UN.

The big deal for NASA and all the other space-involved agencies is to get as much money out of the Fed as possible, whether for research or production or actual exploration.

Fact is, robotics is getting so far advanced that very soon it will be much cheaper to send robots on exploration than humans because humans require such a trememdously expensive infrastructure to go along with them just so they can remain alive.

Naturally, none of the agencies want to lose any appropriations.  Getting NASA to give up stunts like that of last October—shooting the moon for water to sustain another manned flight—will take some heavy squeezing.

In preparation for the shift, I have a suggestion for Cal Tech:  Immediately establish and fund a Research Department devoted entirely to Peacetime Technologies, and see what all those high IQs can come up with to pull us out of our dependence upon producing wars and war hardware as our national jobs machine.

Send Obama, Geithner, Summers and Bernanke to the moon and leave them there.