I think we should build a city on the moon like a University for scientist to study space and other experments.And it would be an ideal for military scientist to develop top secret weapons so other nations wont know about it

Somebody´s been watching Star Trek reruns...

Oh, and by all means, let´s put weapons in space! There´s isn´t enough conflict near the ground level already...

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Posts like this are the reason people don't see the good reasons for space colonization. They believe people such as steve will take this warring BS with us into space.

Greetings and Felicitations,


There is actually a treaty against such uses.

However, the United States refused to sign it even though Russia and China agreed. The entire article can be found here.

Sincerely Yours,
C. David Neely

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I mean its possible, it'd be expensive, but what would be the motivation behind it? I mean, if your going to live on the moon you need water and last I heard the chances of water weren't that good. Which means you have to haul it from earth, and since enough water would be too heavy to lift in on launch you'd have to make several trips. Either way it would be costly in human lives & money, and considering we've got one white elephant too much it isn't likely we'll ever be too overjoyed about any idea that involves lots and lots of money. Leave space to the robots, they're more suited for the harsh environments of space, especially since we design them so.

we can't even get the Hubble Telescope to work...

Greetings and Felicitations,

I don't think this is true. The Hubble worked fine. The telescope suffered from politics, not design. because people in power decided the telescope wasn't valuable enough to maintain and let it come to ruin.

Eventually, we will settle the moon and farther out. When this will occur is debatable but I think it will occur. I just think that the colonies will speak Chinese.

Sincerely Yours,
C. David Neely

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Historically, treaties about unexplored areas have been worth slightly more than their weight in toilet paper. And about as useful and binding.

I have no idea why people are talking about the HST in the past tense. While the main camera stopped working about 2 weeks ago, it was due to be replaced in an upcoming 2008 mission. After this mission, the Hubble should be useful until 2013, 2 years after Hubble's successor is planned to be launched.

Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | Hubble's main camera stops working

Of wiser plan would be using near-earth objects like asteroids as bases, "cities" if you prefer. Since we're dreaming here, capture a nickel-iron asteroid, build some mining equipment, smelters, factories... industrialize the thing. Take other asteroids, hollow them out, and build cities on the inside wall. You can use many of the materials in the industrial asteroid to build the infrastructure in the "city" asteroid. And so on, building upon each success.

That is an undertaking of a massive sort, but starting a series of NEO colonies within 1,000 miles of the surface is actually more feasible in the long run than building a one-shot city 240,000 miles away.

IMHO, of course.

You are missing the point of me bringing up the Hubble Telescope. If we can't manage to keep a telescope working - how do you expect there will be enough capital (political, monetary or otherwise) to get a Moon colony going?

This is more brutal reality more than it is flat out cynicism.

Actually there already modifying former shuttle launch pad 39-A and will be tearing down 39-B (As soon as they retire the shuttle next year.) for a new twin spacecraft called AERS for that very reason.
I won a desk build bid on the ARES Constellation class twin launch vehicle and Lunar conveyer (A multi-passenger SUV kinda thingy.) for NASA last year.
(Go to: NASA - NASA's Future: The Vision for Space Exploration And click on Moon Mars and beyond video.)
A guy in my group who built the Voyager model in Star Trek the motion picture won the engineering model design:




Here’s one of my builds that won 4 desk bids at NASA:



It uses the same SPB’s (Solid propellant boosters.) as the shuttle (Gives you an idea of the size.). Both launch vehicles are on pads at the same time and launch 37 minutes apart. The paper work is all done on these and the prototypes are being modified as we speak.

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Eventually there will be colonization of the moon. But it wont be economically or technologically viable for quite some time. A very, very long time.

That why the only way it'll ever happen is if its either privately funded, becomes cheap enough that politicians wont squabble over it, or maybe when China decides it wants to one-up the USA. Still, thats just getting it going, keeping it going is another thing all together. I mean this is space we're talking about, a hostile environment for humans and until otherwise I don't see any reason of putting a colony on the moon. Where we going to go, earth is the most habitable piece of real estate in this solar system and possibly beyond.

maybe in the not so far future there may end up having a space station on the moon. posibly for mining of minerals....tomc

Yea, it’s a shame NASA faked 725,000 photos from interplanetary to inter galactic space.



You can see the string holding up the center of this spiral galaxy 700,000,000,000 parsecs away.
Some chick working in a mechanical field “because she’s a chick and not someone with mechanical aptitude” placing washers under a face plate instead of on top is hardly a reason to stop the space program…
Where Americans, we sent a repairman.

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Of all the garbage idiotic Ideas fo building a station on the moon. Don't you realize that any such undertaking would be at th behest of all reasonably large and affluent nations on earth? So who would it be secret from???

GET REAL. Someone said you are a child. there is nothing wrong with being a child, but if so, admit it so we don't expect mature reasoning from you.