For the first time in more than a quarter-century, a new space vehicle stands ready in NASA Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida. The final segments of the Ares I-X rocket, including the simulated crew module and launch abort system, were stacked on Aug. 13 on a mobile launcher platform, completing the 327-foot launch vehicle and providing the first entire look of Ares I-X's distinctive shape. The Ares I-X flight test is targeted for Oct. 31.
*SQUEEEEEE*
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ares/flighttests/aresIx/index.html
look at the sheer size of it!!
(http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/379287main_2009-4672_1024-768.jpg)
some cgi video with cheesy 80s musac as well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0olOTThnyPk
why are we going to the moon again?
Clarification: Why are we sending people to the moon again?
To build a moonbase so we can send people to Mars?
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on August 28, 2009, 05:36:51 PM
To build a moonbase so we can send people to Mars?
And why are we sending people to mars again?
I don't get this obsession with sending people places. We've been on Mars for the last 5 years, and continuing. This is big boy 21st century, time to take off our diapers and put on some pants. Robotics are cheaper, safer, more efficient and frankly more interactive ways to explore foreign worlds now than sending people is. So we're standing there, in space suits on mars....then what? Hit a golf ball around? FFS. We can send robots there to do whatever sensory sampling and measuring that we could do there, actually, MORE so, and longer. Because robots don't need food or water or shelter from radiation or dust storms. All they need is sunlight.
All person-based exploration until extraterran mining is necessary and until we can leave this star system for other earth like worlds is completely bullshit and useless. Not to mention expensive.
We gotta do it before the dirty Commies do, Kai. Why do you hate AmeriFreeLibertydom™? :argh!:
To increase the size of our space-penis.
Quote from: Cainad on August 28, 2009, 06:10:35 PM
We gotta do it before the dirty Commies do, Kai. Why do you hate AmeriFreeLibertydom™? :argh!:
You found me out, Cainad.
Kai,
Will never be able to hide their America bashing, freedom and liberty hating, motherland loving self again.
Quote from: Nasturtiums on August 28, 2009, 06:17:21 PM
To increase the size of our space-penis.
To compensate for our ever shrinking economic-penis right?
Quote from: Kai on August 28, 2009, 05:50:15 PM
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on August 28, 2009, 05:36:51 PM
To build a moonbase so we can send people to Mars?
And why are we sending people to mars again?
To keep the military industrial complex fed until the next war?
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on August 28, 2009, 07:38:06 PM
Quote from: Kai on August 28, 2009, 05:50:15 PM
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on August 28, 2009, 05:36:51 PM
To build a moonbase so we can send people to Mars?
And why are we sending people to mars again?
To keep the military industrial complex fed until the next war?
Can't they just go mur- I mean,
liberate some more smudgy people?
Quote from: Kai on August 28, 2009, 07:42:41 PM
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on August 28, 2009, 07:38:06 PM
Quote from: Kai on August 28, 2009, 05:50:15 PM
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on August 28, 2009, 05:36:51 PM
To build a moonbase so we can send people to Mars?
And why are we sending people to mars again?
To keep the military industrial complex fed until the next war?
Can't they just go mur- I mean, liberate some more smudgy people?
We could put smudgy people on the moon/mars and then liberate them.
Very lucrative.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to Liberate them on the launching pad?
Quote from: LMNO on August 28, 2009, 08:06:50 PM
Wouldn't it be cheaper
NOT THE FUCKING POINT.
Dude. You really should work for the federal government for a while.
notice the phallic looking part at the top of the rocket is lit in a way that gives it a pink fleshy glow...???
I find it funny that, although Freud was a loony, this sort of thing validates just how right he was in some ways.
Quote from: LMNO on August 28, 2009, 08:06:50 PM
Wouldn't it be cheaper to Liberate them on the launching pad?
Well yes, but by definition cheaper = !lucrative.
Mr. Show had the right idea.
Mr. Show -- Blow Up the Moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj7vMKy4EI
Quote from: Kai on August 28, 2009, 08:26:20 PM
I find it funny that, although Freud was a loony, this sort of thing validates just how right he was in some ways.
i dunt know why but all of a sudden i think we need mor big rockets
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:mullet:
Cheaper and safer to put people on the moon, or on Mars or wherever by robotics, sure, I can dig that.
I still like the idea of actual people walking steps on a completely alien landscape though. Fuck, even though I was born 14 years after the first man walked on the moon, I look up at it and it blows my mind that someone actually did. Putting machines up there just don't move me as much. It'll be the same thing with Mars for me too, if they ever actually do it.
So it's expensive and inefficient and a poor allocation of science budgets... I don't give a fuck.
It's for the same reason the English went to America and Australia, we need a place to put people we don't like.
Quote from: Kai on August 28, 2009, 05:20:08 PM
why are we going to the moon again?
Clarification: Why are we sending people to the moon again?
Imagine trying to study an insect colony via a robot. Not a nice science fiction robot, something with treads, that only has a fraction of human dexterity. Also it like to break in really stupid ways you could fix in 5 minutes if you were on site.