To The Moon! NASA To Build Lunar Base .. @ .. sciencedaily.com

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QUOTE: ... NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale, who is guiding the long-term strategy development effort among 14 of the world's space agencies, said, "This strategy will enable interested nations to leverage their capabilities and financial and technical contributions, making optimum use of globally available knowledge and resources to help energize a coordinated effort that will propel us into this new age of discovery and exploration."

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geeeez ... that reads like one of those hurried technobabble spiels somebody reads when the space shuttle is launching ... the same copy dept must've written it

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I wonder how long they leased the studio they're gonna film this in ... (*I kid, I kid*)

use the space below to MOON me .. if ya want

Well hey, why not. We've crapped up our world pretty good, so let's move to the moon...maybe in a decade or two, we can start to crap the moon up also.

Sorry, I guess I'm just a bit cynical.

nahhhhhhhhh

Wow... man on the moon... I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime...

Seriously, I do find this quite exciting... if it ever happens. Let's face it, it certainly isn't the first time somone's made such a proposition...

Far out ! Well, literally anyway. ;o) I so want to see International Geographic's very first pics of life under the dome !

Sounds interseting enough... next will come the commercialization of the moon and mars. Followed then, by petty squables as to the soverignty of these celestial places. Then the current Bush, which ever that one may be, can move our troops there to act as a police force.

I'm just jaded I guess.. hehe

You aren't kidding Keith...they just have to make it palatable for public consumption...which won't take any special effects wizards to be sure.

O,o.... He LIVES!!!!

Run for the hills

*spastically runs in circles*

As a sci-fi fan… I've just been waiting around to see how some plotlines are playing out in reality. I have to say one of the most prophetic ones that I've read has been Robert Heinlein. He's about 10 years off, but he's pretty on target. And when he's not? He's always a good read anyway 8•D

Sorry for stepping on your post Cat.....sheesh Curt get a grip!

Sounds like a great place to store all the criminals...no escaping, no guards. I think I'd rather live sub-marine.

and then it'll be abandoned, and featured in a movie where Nicholas Cage IV will have to prevent an interplanetary terrorist group from sending asteroids crashing to earth with a control station they've set up there.

*rips up screenplay ... and tosses remains into the wastebasket*

And here I thought I had a blockbuster, sure-fire winner of an idea that no one had thought about. :o/

*lightbulb goes off*

Yessss! Apes now rule the moon and and and ... *starts writing feverishly*

bythe way..darryl..you can do that now. the navy has subs (boomers) that stay under for months at a time..

That's rather than live in a sub in the vicinity of a dusty rock lol. I'll stay where I am. Speakin O'dust what is that;-)

a few holiday 'snow flurries'...

LOL… Darryl… in Heinlein's future that's exactly what happens… the moon is a penal colony… and then grows up into itself ala Australia.

Speaking of holiday flurries… I thought I saw a snowflake today, but it was prolly someone's dandruff. 8•P

Maybe it was my avatar ? No ? Sorry....

Hey, wait...use a barren planet (in this case, our moon) as a jail...I think I saw that movie...and the aliens ATE everyone!!! Well, everyone except Ripley who was impregnated by one then died in the end to keep it from getting into the bad hands of the Company...well did they really eat the people or just rip them apart in a gross-out manner???

Still, while I love the idea of space exploration, we as Earthlings haven't got our sh*t together enough. On this one, my normally rosey outlook is pretty pessimistic.

I guess one could call them frosted flakes...ewe. Honestly it reminds me of frosted mini wheats...yum.

Wow Darryl, good to see you on the forum again!

Where is your festive holiday attire? Talk about Space Oddysey...is this how they returned you lol

Hey, I put on my pretty pink party dress, my fancy glasses, AND lipstick...and you say I'm not festive enough...
Another thread run off course by our short attention spans.

Huh? what was that?

What thread?

No idea, you tell me... what were we talking about again?