@Metal-Brain saidLAUGH? Not a chance. THEY ARE IN IT FOR THE MONEY, BOOK SALES.
You mean you could not laugh at them? Why not? Is it because they made good points that you could not refute? Just accept people are ignorant about the moon. I watch the CBS Evening News on TV recently and the reporter used the term "dark side of the moon" instead of the other side of the moon. No side of the moon is continuously dark.
People understand the Pink Floyd ...[text shortened]... oon landing that was not a farce you would just laugh at people, not lose your mind and get violent.
If you don't know that you need to get a real education.
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@wildgrass saidIf the radiation don't get you, 6 months in zero G, you will need a wheelchair when you land, assuming you are alive at the end of the trip. The whole craft could arrive autonomously with a total dead crew inside.
I guess I wasn't looking THAT closely.
The kids watching, though. Exploration is such a visceral, human experience.
When Elon starts signing people up for a 1-way trip to Mars, I'm going to add my name. Go out in a blaze of glory.
The gist of that is the propulsion dudes better come up with a 24/7 acceleration of 1/10th G at least, ONE full G would be AWESOME, Trip to Mars 3 days, on to Jupiter, 5 days and you just keep accelerating, one year of that if you have the energy to do it, you would be close to c.
So you could use such vessels as interstellar travel, slow though🙂 Like suppose the James Webb sees absolutely accurate data of an advanced civilization and it is merely 200 light years away, a hop skip and a jump compared to the size of the Milky Way but you are going close to c,
closer the better for the journey, so 90% it would take about 1/3 the time at normal human space velocities, so 70 odd years to get there and before you send a ship you send a radio signal, taking 200 years for that signal to get there and suppose they go wow, lets talk, so they reply, so a mere four hundred years go by before we have even HI, how are you, WE are fine, etc.
So flying there at 90%c you get there in some 70 years and you chat and do science stuff, say stay a year looking the place over, we come in peace for all mankind speeches and such but 140 years go by on Earth before the Earth crew gets back to Earth.
So suppose they started their trip in year 2300, then they come back in the year 2440, everyone they knew is long dead that is unless they figure out real longevity.
1000 year lifespan or some such, which would fit well with interstellar visits. At 90% c, and a thousand year lifespan, you get to visit a planet 3000 light years away, but of course you come back and it is some SIX thousand years in your own future, it most likely means the entire planet has a different government and no telling what the place would be like at that distant future.
Thinking a bit closer to home, MY first interstellar visit would be a no brainer, at 90% c, Alpha Centauri would be about a year away which is certainly within the realm of possibility, my choice because you get 3 stars for the price of one, they are some 1/10th LY apart so you get there and you can zip over to two other stars and study three separate star systems for the price for the one trip.
But of course you have to accelerate to halfway then turn around thrusters to slow down from .9c so you don't go average velocity of .9 c.
So about 18 months at 0.1G so 36 months, 3 years and you visit all three star systems and there are hints at least one planet in that triple system is in the goldilocks zone so biologists would be VERY interested in that journey!
@sonhouse saidThen you must not think they are as crazy as you claim they are. Everybody is in something for the money. Do you work at Fed Ex for nothing?
LAUGH? Not a chance. THEY ARE IN IT FOR THE MONEY, BOOK SALES.
If you don't know that you need to get a real education.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-9/buzz-aldrin-punches-moon-landing-conspiracy-theorist-bart-sibrel
I don't think you would punch a moon landing skeptic in the face. You could go to prison for that.
@Metal-Brain saidNo but I would bear bad thoughts at him 🙂
Then you must not think they are as crazy as you claim they are. Everybody is in something for the money. Do you work at Fed Ex for nothing?
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/september-9/buzz-aldrin-punches-moon-landing-conspiracy-theorist-bart-sibrel
I don't think you would punch a moon landing skeptic in the face. You could go to prison for that.
@Metal-Brain saidNever got that gig, doing PT at my old company Gulton. Lot more money and a ton of technological challenges.
Do you work at Fed Ex for nothing?
@Metal-Brain saidI got a similar kind of job at Home depot but only lasted a couple of months.
You said you got the job. You couldn't take it could you?
Just doing PT stuff at the company I worked for 14 years now,. long story.