Comments on: 40 Years After Moon Landing, a Question Remains: What Next?

By: TomSwift

TomSwift — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:17:12 +0000

Yogurt: I believe he’s referring the “Moon Treaty” which seems to be worded in a way that forbids terraforming.

“Bans altering the environment of celestial bodies and requires that states must take measures to prevent accidental contamination”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Treaty

By: Tisk Tisk

Tisk Tisk — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:15:12 +0000

@ray & shaking… The both of you have drank too much of the kool-aid. The fact that Mars too, is facing this global warming phenomena tells us that we need to start shipping people immediately to the red planet to fix that problem first, mainly experts such as you two. You can also take Al Gore, the state of California, New England area (there can be only one), PETA, the ACLU, and the American Government with you. It is vital that you leave immediately with no plan and everyone goes so that the rest of the world isn’t contaminated.

By: Yogurt

Yogurt — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:53:01 +0000

@shaking head…

Are you insane? Terraform treaties? Take off your tinfoil hat, you fool. Take your BULLSHlT elsewhere. Oh no, Japan biocontaminated an asteroid…There will be hell to pay. And by the way, it’s “forth”, not “fourth” you pseudo-intellectual putz.

By: shaking head

shaking head — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:12:20 +0000

@ ray….. you are soo right my friend.. unfortunatly the is a treaty signed by every country in the world to never biocontaminate or terraform any planet, moon, asteroid… and so fourth. The treaty desires to preserve examples of other life of potentially enormous scientific interest.

By: robot makes music

robot makes music — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:50:37 +0000

I think we need to focus more on cheap access to space – Bigelow and SpaceX come to mind – and stop these billion-dollar boondoggles like Going to Mars and Returning to The Moon – that will come in time, but why waste billions getting there when we can take those one-shot billions+ missions and turn them into a thousand millions+ missions into LEO to establish a base – once we have workable habs easily reachable in LEO, launching from there to the moon will be much more trivial than the non-trivial problem it is today.

Getting the space station built was a HUGELY expensive operation. Bigelow has test habitats up and running already – if Nasa gave them a fraction of the 100,000,000,000 we spent on the space station, imagine what they might be able to innovate!

And, honestly, once a lot of people can go to space, everyone else will WANT to go and funding will esplode~!

By: Ray Bachlor

Ray Bachlor — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:02:29 +0000

Aldrin and Collins are right! Why is deciding on a goal so difficult?

Global warming is out of control yet no one or country is serious about correcting it; World populations are exploding yet no one is concerned–we are more concerned with health care (longer life) and no birth control or abortions. More people exhaust world resources; more people breathing create more carbon dioxide; more flatus (methane) from people and animals contribute mightily to greenhouse gasses.

We MUST find other planets to contaminate–and quickly! Getting to Mars is the first step toward learning to navigate beyond our solar system. Once there, man will be capable, within limits, of altering environments to make them habitable.

We MUST start NOW! This is not a national problem–it is a world problem and will require world financing and intellect to solve.