Moon landing.

[Mesterh]

Err, breaking news, were going back to the moon chaps!

 

Artemis - NASA

WWW.NASA.GOV

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https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzG1pG Relive the wonder of Artemis I

 

[Paul in the woods]

19 hours ago, Rich Rule said:

Why haven’t Bezzos and Musk got holiday lets up there?

 

I don't know about them but Mr Spoon regularly went to the moon when I was a kid. 

 

[Rough Cutter]

43 minutes ago, Paul in the woods said:

 

I don't know about them but Mr Spoon regularly went to the moon when I was a kid. 

 

Yup and never made a big fuss about it either..

 

Off he went ..🤣

[sime42]

11 hours ago, Welshfred said:

 

I saw an interview, I think with one of those who went, can't remember his name. Anyway, the effort that went into that project (a vanity project really) can't be repeated by government today. Mainly because of the Enormous mass of fossil fuel you need to carry to burn your way out of earth's gravity. He said " it's amazing what you can do with 400,000 staff and an unlimited (!!!) budget"

Imagine if that focus had gone into clean power like fusion we could've colonised the solar system and be halfway to alpha centuri by now. Oh, and we wouldn't have f**ked up Earth with the last 50 years of fossil burning. 

 

I've often thought along similar lines myself. I think the huge amount of effort and money that's gone into space, (literally), over the years would have been far better spent on conserving this once fabulous planet of ours.

(Granted, there have been plenty of great technological spin-offs along the way.)

 

I suspect I'm going out on a limb here but I've never really seen the allure of space, it just doesn't excite me. I've no desire to go to some lifeless, inhospitable rock in the middle of nowhere to try and exist on artificial everything. Musk and his pals are very welcome to stay there if they make it. We've got, or at least did have, everything we could ever desire on this nice little cosy Earth. There's untold scientific research potential in the complexity of the myriad of lifeforms in the natural world around us. We'd do better to learn from it before it's too late I reckon.

 

As you were.

 

 

 

 

 

[Squaredy]

Another interesting thing….1969 Concorde first flight, moon landing, harrier vertical take-off and landing jet; a few years earlier we reached the deepest part of the ocean.  

I find modern technology rather underwhelming by comparison.  What is the 21st century amazing equivalent?  I mean this computer I am typing on which is also a phone and a camera is quite impressive; but not compared to supersonic flight or space travel!

 

We are always being told these days how amazing technological advancement is, but what has it actually achieved that makes you go “Wow!”?

[tree-fancier123]

1 hour ago, Squaredy said:

I find modern technology rather underwhelming by comparison.  What is the 21st century amazing equivalent?

not so much wow factor as a moon landing, or deep ocean exploration, but the use of computing (AI) to predict protein structures and forecast the weather

[Mark Bolam]

1 hour ago, Squaredy said:

Another interesting thing….1969 Concorde first flight, moon landing, harrier vertical take-off and landing jet; a few years earlier we reached the deepest part of the ocean.  

I find modern technology rather underwhelming by comparison.  What is the 21st century amazing equivalent?  I mean this computer I am typing on which is also a phone and a camera is quite impressive; but not compared to supersonic flight or space travel!

 

We are always being told these days how amazing technological advancement is, but what has it actually achieved that makes you go “Wow!”?

 

I know what you mean.

 

We just seem to work harder and harder to buy shite that is meant to make our lives easier.

 

Not all tech is an improvement anyway.

 

To flip the back seats down in my Fiesta I press two levers and gently push the seats down.

It takes about 4 seconds and a granny could do it (and has!).

 

My wife’s Discovery had an electric version.

It broke, and they had the car in for 7 weeks to fix.

 

Progress?

[Mesterh]

3 hours ago, sime42 said:

 

I've often thought along similar lines myself. I think the huge amount of effort and money that's gone into space, (literally), over the years would have been far better spent on conserving this once fabulous planet of ours.

(Granted, there have been plenty of great technological spin-offs along the way.)

 

I suspect I'm going out on a limb here but I've never really seen the allure of space, it just doesn't excite me. I've no desire to go to some lifeless, inhospitable rock in the middle of nowhere to try and exist on artificial everything. Musk and his pals are very welcome to stay there if they make it. We've got, or at least did have, everything we could ever desire on this nice little cosy Earth. There's untold scientific research potential in the complexity of the myriad of lifeforms in the natural world around us. We'd do better to learn from it before it's too late I reckon.

 

As you were.

 

 

 

 

 

I see it as a monumental achievement venturing into space.

Yes there are many issues that need resolving on planet earth, but that shouldnt hold us back on venturing on.

 

 

[Rich Rule]

5 hours ago, Paul in the woods said:

 

I don't know about them but Mr Spoon regularly went to the moon when I was a kid. 

 

I remember Mr Spoon.

 

A few years later, in our late teens, myself and quite a few friend regularly went to the moon.  
 

Usually after a morning of mushy pickiing.

[Mike Hill]

America win the "Space Race" after something is won,why do it again?

 

Anyhow America was busy doing advanced landscaping in Vietnam at the time which cost huge amounts of money.