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| Saturday, November 20th, 2010 | |
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| _6:27 pm_[alboros] |
Astrojet Project Means of geocosmic freight traffic optimization. Pilot project based on patents RU2398717 and RU2385275 (Comment on this) |
| Thursday, April 12th, 2007 | |
| _11:02 am_[spacehope] |
Happy Cosmonautics Day! Today, 46 years ago, in April 12th 1961, Yuri Gagarin made first in human history space flight across the Earth on "Vostok" spaceship! I'm proud to be born the same day as him and hope to repeat his great deed one day! (Comment on this) |
| Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005 | |
| _6:51 pm_[pioneer1] | thought you might be interested. spends quite a bit of time discussing the space elevator.A new documentary on climage change, the energy crisis and how colonizing the Moon can solve many of our problems on Earth. found at http://www.gaiaselene.comThere are two and a half ways to save the earth, and two of them are on the moon.Earth Scientists, space scientists, futurists and visionaries elucidate the challenges facing us as a species and threatening our home planet.How will we feed, house and employ ten billion humans by the year 2050?What happens when the oil runs out?The threats of nuclear fission.Our effect on the environment, the health of the planet and our fellow creatures. By 2050 we will need three times a much power and it will have to be three times as clean. There is no earthly technology capable of coming on line by the year 2050 that can solve our energy problem.In the next hundred years there's one chance in four hundred and fifty five of a species ending-cosmic event. But don't worry.We've developed Space Techology. We've developed a way to turn a cosmic threat into an asset. When we learn what we need to, to colonize the moon, we will be able to use that knowledge to protect our home planet.This new work, for the first time, expresses clear solutions to the crises facing us.Space Solar Power is clean, renewable, and could replace polluting fossile fuel plants.Lunar Solar collectors built of lunar material will microwave power to earth.Power from Moondust. Four tons of 3Helium could power the U.S. for a year in Fusion Reactors and would be worth 8 Billion Dollars.We can and will do it. It's not rocket science anymore.How will we live and work on the moon. What it will be like to fly in lunar gravity. Why we will live in lavatubes under the surface. How we can travel a thousand miles an hour in maglev bullet trains. Why the Moon is a stepping stone to the Solar System, to nearby Stars, to the Future. "The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth". The Rest....is Ours!" Emmy Award Winning Documentary Producer/Director Charles Proser presents a new documentary on the exciting New Frontier and the future of "Homo Spaciens".With:Dr. Alan Binder.....Principal Investigator - Lunar Prospector * Dr. Martin Hoffert....New York University * Daniel Lashof.....Natural Resources Defense Council * Dr. David Lockbaum.....Union of Concerned Scientists * Dr. Gerald Kulcinski..... Nuclear Fusion Laboratory, University of Wisconsin * Dr. David Criswell.....Lunar and Planetary Institute; University of Houston * Dr. Bradley Edwards.....Institute for Scientific Research / Carbon Graphics * John C. Hemry, Author * Dr. David Schrunk....."The Moon, its Resources, Colonization" * Dr. Paul Spudis, Johns Hopkins University,The Presidential Commission on Space * Mark Solter, Astrominer * Peter Kokh, The Moon Society * Dr. John Lewis....."Mining the Sky...University of Arizona * Dr. Patrick Collins.....SpaceFuture.com; Tokyo University (Comment on this) |
| Monday, March 8th, 2004 | |
| _8:06 pm_[saintofkizzles] |
I gots me a plan I orginally posted this in my own LJ(with slight changes), but it was over a month ago and no one has commented on it. So I'm posting here and maybe some other places. Please read and let me know what you think of it.This space thing. Here's how I'd do it:Three phases to the initial expansion. Terrestrial, Lunar, and Martian. Each phase would have three stages of habitation and development. Scientific(research stations, observatories), industrial(factories, mining), and residential(colonies[which would also have industry and science, of course]), in that order. During each phase, large numbers of probes and eventually pre-fab buildings would be sent to the objective of the next phase. So, during the terrestrial phase, unmanned missions would be sent to Luna, to find good landing and construction sites, and then pre-fab buildings would be sent, so that there will already be a base when the manned mission is sent. Same with unmanned Mars missions during the Lunar phase.( Read more...Collapse ) Current Mood:  contemplative (2 Comments |Comment on this) |