Why don't they fly to the Moon anymore?

[Ghost Rider]

Considering it's Space Exploration Fest I remember those days when it was so prestigious to be an astronaut. But they don't even fly to the Moon anymore... Why? Did they encounter hostile life form there? When are we going to Mars? 😏

[kbiz]

Apollo702 eredeti hozzászólása:

kbiz eredeti hozzászólása:

Take a moment to appreciate the importance of the moon for life on Earth. Evolution needs disequilibrium - steady disequilibrium.

The moon also stabilized an otherwise topsy-turvy Earth.

This is one that people frequently miss.

Even if we find another "Earth like" planet, without our very rare moon, it will wobble like a top- totally destabilizing it, and therefore, likely preventing life from taking hold.
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Yes, now consider the tides in our evolution. Air, no air, air, no air...

Consider the tlit of our axis - stressing life with seasons...

The disequilibrium provided by our moon is important. And so is the stability provided as well. We don't want our axis to spin all wobbly-bobbly.

And yeah, look for exoplanets with a moon.

[Nimsosim]

You dorks couldn't survive a month in a desert let alone on another planet.

[kbiz]

Nimsosim eredeti hozzászólása:

You dorks couldn't survive a month in a desert let alone on another planet.

The Dork Point is the freezing temperature where you don't care what you look like as long as you're warm.

[Amuro0079]

Apollo702 eredeti hozzászólása:

kbiz eredeti hozzászólása:

Take a moment to appreciate the importance of the moon for life on Earth. Evolution needs disequilibrium - steady disequilibrium.

The moon also stabilized an otherwise topsy-turvy Earth.

This is one that people frequently miss.

Even if we find another "Earth like" planet, without our very rare moon, it will wobble like a top- totally destabilizing it, and therefore, likely preventing life from taking hold.

Not necessarily. Just extremely rare. It all depends on the collisions with other proto-planets in the early stage of a star system's formation from which a planet acquires its rotation, tilt and all the other characteristics. It's possible to have a planet more perfect than Earth. That said, the Earth-Moon system is already too perfect.

[OoOoOoooOOoOoorgle]

Pfff, they fly daily missions to the secret bases on the dark side in reverse-engineered Roswellian craft. Everybody knows this.

They stopped flying landers and making a big deal out of it because it doesn't impress the public anymore, so it isn't helpful for funding the NASA black budget.

[(Fightn)FalseInformation S҉]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Hj7tfDuWA apollo 20 manuscripts

[Sigma957]

NASA= nashaw

To deceive.

Also because the moon is probably made out of plasma so it can't be landed on.

[Ulfrinn]

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Emurinus eredeti hozzászólása:

Bragging rights.

Exactly. Obviously that's a lot more important than spending those same resources to, idk, solve world hunger or something

Because "world hunger" isn't a problem as most people would identify it. It's not an obstacle of technology. It's not an accomplishment we have to push for. There's plenty of space, plenty of resources to grow plenty of food for everyone. In places where there's a hunger issue, their problems aren't from a lack of those things, but almost always corruption and abuse from those in power. Look at how fast Venezuela plummeted with a change of government. Many countries in Africa or Asia you usually see in ads are ran by extremely corrupt governments as well. People send them money, aid, supplies, the people at the top don't allow it to be distributed.

So, completely different set of problems than space travel, which is purely a technological issue, for the most part. And it really won't be long before that technology is within our reach.

[doug]

SJWs cancelled the moon for being homophobic. Do your research.

[Apollo702]

One of the discoveries from the moon missions were the difficulties faced were greater than we realized.

The good news is by attempting it again, it forces a wave of innovation that can have untold spinoffs.

[Othobrithol]

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[Uncle Sam]

Xero_Daxter eredeti hozzászólása:

Sreve eredeti hozzászólása:

Their is little purpose for it these days.

The next major Milestone is getting Humans to Mars and that should happen around the 30s if everything goes well.

You know if things go wrong everyone will die and there will be no rescue mission? It will take 9 months just to get to mars.

Maybe with Hypersonic & Nuclear tech could reduce that time by a bit up to 4.5 months or less to reach mars?

[Hathaway]

We decided to pay 50 years of reparations instead.

[De Hollandse Ezel]

There was no need to.. the 1 up of the spacerace was won (had the soviets gone to the moon first, we likely would have had a manned marslanding in the 70s.)
-> it was propaganda first and foremost.

science also already got their moonrocks.. so any tests we want to run they still can today.. no need to go take more..

most practical use of space lies in satelites and that does not need one to go quite as far.

the moon can serve other uses : it has a relative high content of deuterium... som once we finally get nuclear fusion reactors.. than that will become economicaly viable.

and with that energy surpluss, and rising costs of metals, due mines on earth running out (the coming resource scarcity).. astroid mining (from the astroid belt) might become economicly viable.

the moon has less gravity and no atmosphere.. so a moonbase, with a space elevator.. where we also construct our mining vessels (so manufacturing capabillity too).. would become viable.

we are just not there yet..

unlike the ISS or Anartica.. there is not so much science experiments that a permanent moonbase could run that could not run (better) on the ISS..

the only reason for a moonbase right now.. would be strategic one.. essentially a military base.. but the "no weapons in space treaty". cancels that option.

[Violent Rainbow]

They DO fly to the moon, all the time! They just don't tell us about it.