Pakage Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 Nasa tests new spacesuits ready for return to moon LOS ANGELES - Nasa is experimenting with a new, more flexible generation of space suits in anticipation of a new mission to the Moon by the year 2020 - and it is doing it in the same dusty crater in the Arizona desert where the original Apollo astronauts prepared themselves for their first experience of solid ground in outer space. Anyone who has seen Neil Armstrong make his first moonwalk - or indeed, anyone familiar with Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story movies - knows that the first generation of spacesuits were unwieldy affairs, unable to allow the astronauts to make much more than "one small step". In the space shuttle era, the suits have in fact hardened, making them better insulated but also uncomfortably rigid for anything other than floating in space. The new generation being prepared for the new Moon mission - codename Constellation - has much better articulation in the hips, knees and elbows. Nasa, taking the lead from President Bush, is making plans not only to return to the Moon for the first time since 1972 but to set up a self-sustaining colony there and use it as a launchpad for further exploration of the solar system, including the first manned mission to Mars. The year 2020 may sound like a long way off - and, given the vagaries of American politics, far from a done deal now that President Bush is about to leave office and Nasa fights off one piece of bad publicity after another. But Nasa's engineers are already busy planning and developing a new generation of suits, lunar vehicles and robots. Story Continued Here -- Freakin sweet! MOOOON BAAAAASE!!!1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzzp Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 Ha 2020. That should read: ...and it is doing it in the same dusty crater in the Arizona desert where the original Apollo astronauts faked the first moon landing Would fookin sweet tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perceptualChaos Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 interesting... can't help but suspect some hidden agenda there though wrt exploitation of minerals on the moon and 'homeland security' with regards to the faked moon landing.... that documentary which i assume you're going from was sensationalist bullshit. all of their points are based on a lack of understanding of physics. one example: if the landing was faked then how can you explain the fact that the dust from the buggy in the video travels in an almost perfect parabola? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Awesome Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 with regards to the faked moon landing.... that documentary which i assume you're going from was sensationalist bullshit. all of their points are based on a lack of understanding of physics. one example: if the landing was faked then how can you explain the fact that the dust from the buggy in the video travels in an almost perfect parabola? Amen. Also that whole "THERE WERE NO STARS IN DA SKY!!!111!!!ONEOENE" Crap was disproved due to the suns location. I doubt it has anything to do with homeland security, although if I recall the moon is suspected to have large amounts of various useful stuff (Silicone & titanium iirc), weather it would be economically feasible to pull a profit from mining the moon is another question though (or even enough to offset your operational costs). You wouldn't need resource consent however Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pakage Posted October 10, 2007 Author Share Posted October 10, 2007 dude, you cant mine the moon! we need its gravitational pull to make the tides and keep us on our axis propperly.. fuck that shit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Awesome Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 dude, you cant mine the moon! we need its gravitational pull to make the tides and keep us on our axis propperly.. fuck that shit! There is an awful lot of shit up there (most of it clay and stuff), I don't think anybody would be removing enough of it for that to happen anytime soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thr339z Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 AND there gonna build a "real life " gattaca-esk scenario there and genetically engineer humans for space IE two sets o hands and gills...and shit or maybe not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specs Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 Does that mean the moon will be another idiotic american state??? hopefully not complete with banjo's and moonshine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thr339z Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 Does that mean the moon will be another idiotic american state??? hopefully not complete with banjo's and moonshine... excellent first post I must say thus far I love ur werk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo Custard Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 The moon doesnt belong to anyone at all right ? Or is it part of the global community chest ? Whats to stop the yanks from staking a claim ?? Im sure there is something just not sure what Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pakage Posted October 10, 2007 Author Share Posted October 10, 2007 The moon doesnt belong to anyone at all right ? Or is it part of the global community chest ? Whats to stop the yanks from staking a claim ?? Im sure there is something just not sure what pretty sure that they went and stuck an american flag in it back in 1969.. maybe they think that makes it theirs and theirs alone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thr339z Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 The moon doesnt belong to anyone at all right ? Or is it part of the global community chest ? Whats to stop the yanks from staking a claim ?? Im sure there is something just not sure what pretty sure that they went and stuck an american flag in it back in 1969.. maybe they do think that makes it theirs? WARNING WARNING!!!!!! I feel a left wing spiel coming on disembowel all things american , american cloathes culture music thought negate their filthy system , ok ok they are huge we are tiny but we can say get fucked in many ways ,,, the more people who do this the better this means , NO mcdeath No starbucks NO kfc No subway No Nikes No crap american tv ,,,,and the list goes on..... turn your back on any thing they preach remember that we are there and they are WAYYYY over there. name 10 things that we "actually" need from them? not many if any... Fuck them revolt resist rethink......... :simplified and edited cos I cant be fucked pulling out my well used soap box... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pakage Posted October 10, 2007 Author Share Posted October 10, 2007 i like subway.. and i like nikes.. not all their shit has to go.. just most of it lol @ McDeath.. too true bro! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perceptualChaos Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 yeah i love nikes too - it gives me a real sense of empowerment knowing that i'm wearing shoes made by workers getting paid so far below subsistence wages that they might as well not be getting paid at all... in fact it kind of turns me on thinking about their abject poverty - a family of 8 living in the same room.... thats hot i know very well that nike aren't the only corporation that outsources their manufacturing to sweatshops and that i'm being somewhat hypocritical in my sarcastic slandering but they are definitely one of the worst in terms of the degree to which they outsource everything in the corporation, and the degree to which they bully the sweatshops to work for less by threatening moving their contract to somewhere else that will work for less. fuck nike.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perceptualChaos Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 name 10 things that we "actually" need from them? I know this is only 5 but sorry mang I need this shit like George Bush needs grammar South Park Family Guy The Simpsons American Dad Drawn Together Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hakomi Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 I second tims movement and would like to add 2 more good american things TOOL and RATM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kritical Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 We need their Oil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grind Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 Heaps of good shit has come out of America in the past! USA was the birthplace of pretty much all the good musical genres.. hip-hop, metal, hardcore, blues, funk, jazz, soul.. fuck - if it wasn't for America (well.. detroit techno and chicago house) we probably wouldn't even be here on a drum'n'bass forum... they've produced some of the most amazing sports teams and athletes.. Michael Jordan.. Mohummad Ali.. Tiger Woods.. so many legendary films and and directors are from the US.. our whole sense of pop culture, fashion is based on US trends.. if you say goodbye to US you can say goodbye to jeans, hoodies, saying shit like "radical!" "bodacious!" etc.. skateboarding was invented there and everyone knows that skateboarding is cool they are also responsible for the legendary M1 Abrams tank guess what else was invented there.. TEH INTERNET :idea: we also rely quite heavily on them in terms of trade but yeah, their foreign policy is and has always been fucked, they're removing their own citizens freedom and rights to privacy, they rape and pillage the environment, they produce a lot of shit processed food, use sweatshop labour etc etc etc etc wahhh wahhhhh.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Known One Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 Talking of the moon... theres lots of testimony floating around from Buzz Aldrin about his UFO experiences when flying to the moon... makes for interesting stuff... As for the argument about moon landings happening for real or in the desert... if you think they're fake, you need educating., not trying to be a dick but go read about it... it's not hard to prove... I recommend reading about the Lunar Retroreflectors still on the moon today from Moon Missions... if you really don't believe it, go buy a laser and test it out for yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pakage Posted October 10, 2007 Author Share Posted October 10, 2007 yeah i love nikes too - it gives me a real sense of empowerment knowing that i'm wearing shoes made by workers getting paid so far below subsistence wages that they might as well not be getting paid at all... in fact it kind of turns me on thinking about their abject poverty - a family of 8 living in the same room.... thats hot I didnt say that i like how theyre made... i just meant that theyre quite comfortable kicks is all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeb Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 Ground control to major tom Ground control to major tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on Ground control to major tom Commencing countdown, engines on Check ignition and may god's love be with you Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, Four, three, two, one, liftoff This is ground control to major tom You've really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare "this is major tom to ground control I'm stepping through the door And i'm floating in a most peculiar way And the stars look very different today For here Am i sitting in a tin can Far above the world Planet earth is blue And there's nothing i can do Though i'm past one hundred thousand miles I'm feeling very still And i think my spaceship knows which way to go Tell me wife i love her very much she knows" Ground control to major tom Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong Can you hear me, major tom? Can you hear me, major tom? Can you hear me, major tom? Can you.... "here am i floating round my tin can Far above the moon Planet earth is blue And there's nothing i can do." i dont care who owns it or how we get there or when,lets just make it soon......im keen to get the fuck off this planet for real.......zeb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thr339z Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 hehehehehe I love being subversive it makes fer great reading.... any who yes] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joachim Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 I'll read the thread now but for now I just wanted to add: "focus on space nigga, the united states of space! because that's where we are going, oh and I ain't stoping at the moon, you want an exclusive? Well get out your pens and write this one down M, A, R, S, that's where we are going, Mars bitches! Red Rocks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thr339z Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 I'll read the thread now but for now I just wanted to add: "focus on space nigga, the united states of space! because that's where we are going, oh and I ain't stoping at the moon, you want an exclusive? Well get out your pens and write this one down M, A, R, S, that's where we are going, Mars bitches! Red Rocks! tyea man fer shiz dont get me wrong Im all fer space ... well keen just not keen on the USA" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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