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Manned Space Flight

Manned space flight stands as one mankind`s greatest and most inspirational achievements. The various programs spurred advances in many peripheral areas of technology. These include major contributions to avionics, telecommunications, and computers. This video features footage from the United States Gemini and Apollo space missions. Music by Brian Eno.

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  • Date 8/29/2009 7:54:39 PM
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Konamix : LVL 23: VP 3.2: said:

Konamix

13 votes NegativePositive

85 days 23 hours ago...

Just amazing...no lie, I`d be scared shitless out there hanging on that thread thing..

N@stro : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

N@stro

28 votes NegativePositive

85 days 23 hours ago...

I arrived to early.

I`ll come back when all the conspiracy nuts who think the landings were staged have commented.

ambulance : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

ambulance

-6 votes NegativePositive

85 days 22 hours ago...

ok then, so uh, why hasn`t anybody gone back to the moon since then?

SlashX-X : LVL 10: VP 1.9: said:

SlashX-X

23 votes NegativePositive

85 days 22 hours ago...

^ Absolutely no need.... Too much money for too little profit. The first time around was for the hype and fame!!

rawrimadinosaur : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

rawrimadinosaur

-7 votes NegativePositive

85 days 22 hours ago...

^ whats the point?

SlashX-X : LVL 10: VP 1.9: said:

SlashX-X

6 votes NegativePositive

85 days 22 hours ago...

Being the first ones to the moon was HUGE! Hype and Fame equal money. If they would have went back up a few more times afterward, what else would have they accomplished except for spending another 20 - 25.4 billion dollars?

Valaur : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

Valaur

8 votes NegativePositive

85 days 20 hours ago...

^actually the point in going back to the moon is for Helium-3. In layman`s terms, H-3 will solve the energy crisis. 10 fold. Minimum. The investment in the short term will bite us in the testicles. The investment in the long run will be free energy for everyone.
Why will it solve the energy crisis you ask?
The following report was given to Bill Paxton in 1996.

The world population will increase to ten billion people by the year 2050. By that time we will have exhausted all of the 7 trillion barrels of oil, equivalent to any kind of economically recoverable fossil fuel on earth. We will have run out of places to store the toxic wastes from our nuclear fission reactors. We will have no alternative resource but fusion energy.

The physics of present fusion energy, involving the fusion of deuterium and tritium in a thermonuclear reactor, the TOKAMAK, is approaching resolution but problems of reactor materials survival remain, which will probably take 30 years to work out. This is due to the very destructive neutrons generated in the reaction process.

In contrast, helium-3 is a completely clean source of energy. Two helium-3 atoms are fused in a thermonuclear reactor to produce normal helium and energy. The fuel is non-radioactive, the process produces no radioactivity, and the residue produces no radioactivity. It is the perfect energy source. However the helium-3 reaction takes place at 10 times the temperature of the TOKAMAK. It will probably take 10 to 20 years to work out the physics of containing the reaction.

There is very little helium-3 on earth, only that which was left here when the earth was formed, and some additional amount which we have made in our reactors since then. It is generated from nuclear reactions in the sun and comes to us on solar wind. None lands on earth because it is diverted away by the earth`s magnetic field. But is does land on the moon. The moon is loaded with it. It is estimated that there is ten times as much helium-3 energy on the moon as our total historical inventory of fossil fuels. 25 tonnes of helium-3 (one shuttle load) would supply the total US energy needs for a whole year in 1993. The shuttle load would have a value of about 25 billion dollars, which would equate to oil at $7 per barrel.

But to mine it on the moon and to get it here we will need a space station by 2000 AD and a permanent human resident colony on the moon by 2010 AD. The by-products of processing ore on the moon will provide enough necessary materials like oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, etc. to make the colony self-sustaining.

fattirefury : LVL 42: VP 5: said:

fattirefury

9 votes NegativePositive

85 days 18 hours ago...

Lol they did go back to the moon

Benjammin : LVL 15: VP 2.4: said:

Benjammin

-3 votes NegativePositive

85 days 16 hours ago...

Wow talk about a perfect thing to go to sleep to...

mufasa1023 : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

mufasa1023

7 votes NegativePositive

85 days 8 hours ago...

^ Ambulance, 12 men on 6 missions have walked on the moon....how many more qualifies as going back to the moon?

eat_p1e : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

eat_p1e

2 votes NegativePositive

85 days 7 hours ago...

Some people will look for any excuse to criticise the achievements of one. In this case, space flight. Space flight isn`t same as lunar expeditions. Manned Space flight, including space walks happen regularly. These ppl use this to whine about Moon landing. Come up with stupid reasoning like why aren`t they doing it now. And if they did do it now, these same people would start crying, my tax dollars being wasted in science. Little they know the vast benefit of such endeavour.

SSJTrunks : LVL 44: VP 5: said:

SSJTrunks

2 votes NegativePositive

85 days 7 hours ago...

But why no further than the Moon in 40 years? To think if money was just poured into this rather than other stupid shit then we would be at Mars right about now.

Not trying to put a downer on the achievement though. Man getting into space is the greatest thing to happen to our race. I`m just thankful I was born to experience this era.

Marvecko : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

Marvecko

5 votes NegativePositive

85 days 4 hours ago...

Daaamn... the sight of our blue pebble from the Moon always brings a tear to my eyes, cuz it looks so peaceful and beautiful floating there, but it is actually covered with shitty beings fucking it up.

SOLSTAR : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

SOLSTAR

3 votes NegativePositive

84 days 21 hours ago...

My goodness.. that was beautiful. I was truly transported for a moment to those desolate and peaceful places... your mind begins to toy with notions of forever and eternity. and the rely on the technology that brought you there... talk about bravery and concentration!

now, admittedly I`m freshly baked. this vid looked good and ..wow.. what a journey man.

Propyl : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

Propyl

2 votes NegativePositive

83 days 10 hours ago...

Other then H3.. why would anyone ever travel to the moon?

Its only rocks and dust up there(im not sure really!).. well you could go for the view. omfg seeing earth from there must be fucking mindblowing!!

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