Except for the five times they went back after. But still.Wes said:The USA was only motivated to go to the moon so they could beat the Russians and get there first. Once they did that they never went back.
Longo_2_guns said:Except for the five times they went back after. But still.Wes said:The USA was only motivated to go to the moon so they could beat the Russians and get there first. Once they did that they never went back.
Good point. Even if we find life on Mars, what then? We're gonna move to Mars? no.Wes said:The only thing that's going to motivate the government to fund NASA is if another country has the chance to be the first to do something USA hasn't.
intoTheRain said:Hooray we're landing men on mars in 2030, .
There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark.intoTheRain said:and anyone who knows anything knows the aliens have a mining operation on the dark side of the moon and told the humans to never come back, so NASA cut funding and only did quick drop and scoop missions to finish the contract.
Optimus-Crime said:There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark.intoTheRain said:and anyone who knows anything knows the aliens have a mining operation on the dark side of the moon and told the humans to never come back, so NASA cut funding and only did quick drop and scoop missions to finish the contract.
WickedLiquid said:But seriously, people thought by now we'd have developed a way to travel through space using light speed. Looks like all those sci-fi movies and TV shows have made us feel a bit too cocky.
Well, we can't hit light speed but we have the technology to go extremely fast through space for a long period of time.WickedLiquid said:But seriously, people thought by now we'd have developed a way to travel through space using light speed. Looks like all those sci-fi movies and TV shows have made us feel a bit too cocky.
intoTheRain said:it's physically impossible-
madster111 said:Well, we can't hit light speed but we have the technology to go extremely fast through space for a long period of time.WickedLiquid said:But seriously, people thought by now we'd have developed a way to travel through space using light speed. Looks like all those sci-fi movies and TV shows have made us feel a bit too cocky.
Only problem is that making a ship able to do that would cost all of the money ever and we really don't need to do it yet.
Building a bunch of MPDTs to be powered by a nuclear reactor we have to somehow get into space safely would cost an insane amount of money.
The real reason humans haven't been back to the moon is that there's really nothing there. It's just a random reflective rock that's orbiting us. Mars on the other hand has the ability to be terraformed and we don't know what resources it has. Hell, maybe it has an abundance of Titanium with .01% oxygen or something.
Mars could also prove useful if we ever discovered, say, a big-ass rock that's going to hit us and wipe out earth in 50 years. It's at that point we'd start making some more CFCs and start packing some old shuttles with economy class seats.