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Back to theMoon by 2020, NASA says.. . COOL!!!

Started by Koltar, December 11, 2007, 03:32:05 AM

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jeff37923

#45
December 23, 2007, 10:17:58 AM
Quote from: Tyberious FunkBetter than our space program.

Not to bust on the Aussies, but I honestly thought that your country would have had a joint venture space program with the Japanese by now.
"Meh."

jeff37923

#46
December 23, 2007, 10:24:45 AM
Quote from: beeberme too!  born in '69 (june) and thought we'd be settling the solar system by this time.  where's the future we were supposed to have?  i want my flying cars, dammit :(  :mad:

Me three, born in March of '69 and hoped to have seen asteroid mines and O'Neill colonies providing the resources and labor to build solar power satellites by now.

Hell, with all the crap about the Global Warming Issue, you'd think that both sides of it would agree that a solar power satellite may be a worthwhile enough alternate energy solution to at least build an expiramental prototype.
"Meh."

John Morrow

#47
December 23, 2007, 03:12:10 PM
Quote from: jeff37923Not to bust on the Aussies, but I honestly thought that your country would have had a joint venture space program with the Japanese by now.

Apparently the United States has provided technical and financial support for Australian space efforts in the past but NASA is also looking for Australia to invest in space research.
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John Morrow

#48
December 23, 2007, 03:13:31 PM
Quote from: jeff37923Hell, with all the crap about the Global Warming Issue, you'd think that both sides of it would agree that a solar power satellite may be a worthwhile enough alternate energy solution to at least build an expiramental prototype.

No, because if they were to become close to a reality, the Luddite wing of the environmentalist movement would point out the damage that high-energy microwave beams do as they pass through the atmosphere as a reason to stop them.
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Tyberious Funk

#49
December 23, 2007, 03:23:53 PM
Quote from: jeff37923Not to bust on the Aussies, but I honestly thought that your country would have had a joint venture space program with the Japanese by now.

The peak of Australia's glory in space was the launch of WRESAT in 1967.  We were the fourth country to put a man-made satellite into orbit, behind the US, USSR and France.  

Since then, things have been pretty limited.  Fundamentally, the government sees minimal economic benefit to maintaining a space program.  Therefore, any initiative out of Australia is privately funded.  And given that we have the 15th largest economy in the world, you can imagine that private funds available for space research would be limited.
 

Callous

#50
December 24, 2007, 08:27:41 AM
As an aside, if we do ever get off this rock and have some serious time to kill in a long space flight, what could be a better way to fight the boredom than role-playing.  Maybe NASA could do some scientific research and determine the "best" RPG in the way that only Government can.  ;)

Ok rolling dice in space might be a problem...
 

jeff37923

#51
December 24, 2007, 08:57:55 AM
Quote from: CallousAs an aside, if we do ever get off this rock and have some serious time to kill in a long space flight, what could be a better way to fight the boredom than role-playing.  Maybe NASA could do some scientific research and determine the "best" RPG in the way that only Government can.  ;)

Ok rolling dice in space might be a problem...

And thus, Traveller the LARP was born...
:haw:
"Meh."

Callous

#52
December 24, 2007, 09:35:13 AM
Quote from: jeff37923And thus, Traveller the LARP was born...
:haw:

Sweet!

You, of course, have to do a spectacular death scene when you die in character creation.  Again and again...      :)
 

jeff37923

#53
December 24, 2007, 09:58:29 AM
Quote from: CallousYou, of course, have to do a spectacular death scene when you die in character creation.  Again and again...      :)

The video transmissions of those alone could pay for the trip.

Yak! Space exploration as Reality TV. I just made myself sick.
"Meh."

Callous

#54
December 24, 2007, 10:04:14 AM
Quote from: jeff37923The video transmissions of those alone could pay for the trip.

Yak! Space exploration as Reality TV. I just made myself sick.

Well, with the writer's strike and NASA funding issues...   :)
 

jeff37923

#55
December 24, 2007, 12:26:42 PM
Quote from: CallousWell, with the writer's strike and NASA funding issues...   :)

...any port in a storm. Doesn't make the concept any more palatable.

Could be a good science fiction story, though.
"Meh."

Zachary The First

#56
December 24, 2007, 04:43:11 PM
Quote from: jeff37923And thus, Traveller the LARP was born...
:haw:

That would make it the bestest Christmas ever (ok, maybe aside from the first one).
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#57
December 24, 2007, 06:14:53 PM
Diceless RPGs would enjoy renewed popularity if space travel were to become commonplace.

Koltar

#58
December 24, 2007, 06:48:54 PM
Quote from: jeff37923Yak! Space exploration as Reality TV. I just made myself sick.


OOh!! Thats not a BAD idea!! - Ity would make Space Tourism mean something else entirely.


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#59
December 26, 2007, 02:19:33 AM
See now, this article here, "A rocket a day keeps the high costs away, that is the big and ballsy American spirit. This buggerising about with a copy of Apollo or the overpriced boondoggle and astronaut-killer the Shuttle, that's wussy stuff. Putting out a tender for 1,000 rockets to put 2,000kg each into LEO at not more than $1.3 million each, launched daily, failures to be learned from while the programme presses on - now that's the sort of ballsy stuff that got the USA to the Moon in the first place.

That's the spirit you guys need to recapture. You've become fat and timid.
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