Science
Related: About this forumBuzz Aldrin just tweeted this
This was the mission patch for the cancel Apollo 18
miyazaki
(2,254 posts)Orrex
(63,247 posts)Bathroom in his pants
And he thinks he's better than me.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Buzz was the one who imbibed.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)who was chasing him through a hotel lobby demanding that he admit the moon landing was a hoax.
Always kind of admired Buzz for that.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)But awesome!
DownriverDem
(6,232 posts)The Dems need Sen. Warren in the Senate. She is the voice that needs to be heard. The Senate is a powerful place and Sen. Warren is the one who will make sure our ideas get front and center. She is not running for President. Please re-consider your support.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)that you support?
Response to DownriverDem (Reply #20)
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awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)and someone who strapped, basically, a bomb on their back a coward and liar without consequences and repercussions.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)in astrophysics, IIRC.
He's the man I aspire to be in my dreams.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)I met Charlie Duke about 5 years ago- he seems like a great guy. We let him fly our A320 sim- he greased it in like he had 5k hours in it.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)I've always wanted to meet a moon walker.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)I met Al Worden at the Kennedy Space Center. No, he didn't walk on the moon, but how many humans have circled around it? Not many!
blackspade
(10,056 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...astronauts were my heroes, and to me, Buzz Aldrin was always #1. You GO BUZZ!!!
PEACE!
DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)in New Jersey in the same class as my uncle.
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)there is a small blue flag emblazoned with a square and compass.
A flag which Bro. Buzz Aldrin flew to the moon and planted on lunar soil, to claim the moon under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Texas AF&AM.
The first Masonic Lodge on the moon, if we ever develop that far, will be chartered by the Grand Lodge of Texas.
I am proud to be a member of that tiny Lodge; the best little Blue Lodge in Texas.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6103092&mesg_id=6103201
mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)Hekate
(90,928 posts)I think losing that dream diminishes us.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)The sadest thing about this plan is the pair that want to have the first kid born on Mars. Is it likely, that kid would die alone after burying everyone else on that planet?
LunaSea
(2,895 posts)Otherwise it's likely humanity might die right here, alone in the night.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)An exploding Sun will take them all.
drm604
(16,230 posts)Before then, we can try to make sure that any one asteroid strike, for example, doesn't wipe us out.
Regarding the Sun exploding or dying in some other manner; we may or may not eventually be able to do something about that, but let's first worry about making it until then.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)Now I like life and hope to get some more chances at it but, tell us, what is so special about the human race that we have to survive?
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. Einstein
If you can not feel the mystery, There is no way to answer your question. We are the universe looking at itself. We have no right to close our eyes.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)mere survival of the species. But curiosity can take many forms. This thread has made me wonder what would replace us as the dominant species if we did get wiped out. Does it exist now or would it be some completely new species. Whichever I vote for water based for the next dominant species. Do I think we will be wiped out? Maybe, but more likely by our own hands and not by an asteroid.
As for space? I was disappointed when they canceled the shuttle before having a replacement ready. I love space and at 64 still look up every time I go outside after dark; luckily I live in a rural area so there is actually something to see on clear nights. But being 64 my mysteries now need to be solvable in a shorter period of time.
drm604
(16,230 posts)In the cosmic scheme of things, I suppose we're not that important. But to ourselves we are. I'm not going to commit suicide or fail to take safety precautions just because I'm a spec in a vast universe.
We're important to ourselves. That's enough. It's basic human instinct to want ourselves, our family, our friends, and our descendants to survive and do well.
All of that is self-evident to me. It's part of the human psyche.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)Wow, nice sentiment. You would think we should treat each other better than we have so far.
Oh, and I doubt the dinosaurs would agree with you putting them in second place but that's just a guess.
drm604
(16,230 posts)Dinosaurs didn't have the capacity to agree or disagree.
I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve here, but I'm not participating any longer. Go ahead and have the last word if it makes you happy.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)drm604
(16,230 posts)No question about that.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)LunaSea
(2,895 posts)Same motivations behind all human wandering, more resources, more available energy, room to grow.
(And that great motivator- getting the hell away from some people.)
Spaceflight being among the most difficult activity humans engage in, it is easier and less expensive when we work at it together.
Perhaps there is a lesson in that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)Neither the Moon or Mars are our future.
The US spent some 300 billion dollars in today's money to send twelve people to the Moon. We quit going since there is no practical reason for people to leave the Earth.
Johonny
(20,927 posts)You have a link on a page to our rovers exploring Mars right next to a cry for us to explore Mars... as if we weren't doing it. Always love me some Buzz anyways, though.
mimi85
(1,805 posts)There's more than enough that needs fixing right here on Earth.
There are many people who used to think that, but a brief moment of research shows a completely different picture.
A brief list includes solar panels, implantable heart monitors, anti‐cancer therapy, cordless tools, light‐
weight high‐temperature alloys, cameras found cell phones, compact water‐purification systems, global
search‐and‐rescue systems and biomedical technologies.
Once people realized the enormous benefits of space exploration, they begin to support this human endeavor. One might as well call the voyages of Magellan and Columbus a waste of money.
GoCubsGo
(32,099 posts)I would love to see it happen at some point. But, I agree that we have far bigger needs for the funds here on Earth. Especially when funding for scientific research, in general, is already in extreme short supply. Before traveling to an uninhabitable planet, I'd rather to see this one be kept from being uninhabitable itself.
LunaSea
(2,895 posts)Or could one be the key to the other?
GoCubsGo
(32,099 posts)Right now, that is so far from the case, it isn't funny. The money available for scientific research has been in decline for over a decade. That's for everything--biomedical, environmental, space and technology....
longship
(40,416 posts)And the pay backs are greater than what is spent, as another response cited.
I'm all in on increasing NASA funding.
Alkene
(752 posts)of sending a few specific people to Mars.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)Alkene
(752 posts)And, you know, stuff happens.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f05_1341954719
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)Then there is the money from the closed circuit pay-per-view of the "accidental" door opening. I can see this project ending up with a profit.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)Hekate
(90,928 posts)...as a gateway to the stars. It's a wonderful visual -- and I agree with him. I'd ask when Buzz got so ancient, but I'm not so young myself anymore.
I thought we'd have gone further than we have by now, but instead the US is bumming rides to the International Space Station with the Russians, and soon will give up the Station entirely. I feel we have chosen to diminish ourselves.
On edit: It sure looks like Stonehenge, but perspective makes the gateway look smaller, so I asked.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,400 posts)He's in Britain for the partial eclipse on Friday morning - they just had him as the guest on the BBC's 'Stargazing Live' programme.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,400 posts)Half a century after Alexei Leonov carried out the first spacewalk he still vividly recalls the moment he emerged from the capsule to become the only human to have floated in the cosmos.
I gently pulled myself out and kicked off from the vessel, former cosmonaut Leonov, now a sprightly 80-year-old working for a Moscow bank, told AFP.
(There were) inky black, stars everywhere and the sun so bright I could barely stand it.
Tethered to the craft with a five-metre (16-foot) cord, he gazed in wonder at the earths geography laid out sweepingly below him, his motherland perfectly visible.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/18/russia-soviet-first-space-walk-alexei-leonov