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Brian J Checco
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Topic: Who really won the Space Race? Posted: 01-Dec-2007 at 11:51 |
Yeah, so we can discover and colonize new worlds and screw them up just as bad as we did this one... congratu-f*cking-lations, Mankind; or as we ought to put it, the Plague of Locusts.
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longshanks31
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Posted: 06-Dec-2007 at 22:33 |
the terraforming of mars is possible, where we would venture after that is hard to say, maybe the moon europa,
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long live the king of bhutan
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nova roma
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Posted: 08-Jan-2008 at 09:06 |
let's all stop this pointless bickering and remember one thing: the
respect and admiration we have for our friends, or comrades, the real heroes of the
space race, the space monkeys
RIP little dude
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Posted: 08-Jan-2008 at 09:08 |
Originally posted by longshanks31
the terraforming of mars is possible, where we would venture after that is hard to say, maybe the moon europa, |
The US will have a permanent moon colony by 2024, possibly earlier. I can't think of a better start for this type of research
Edited by nova roma - 08-Jan-2008 at 09:08
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Posted: 08-Jan-2008 at 13:52 |
I heard that Bush Wants a moon base in 2010 and wants to be on Mars in 2020. And by the way have any of you ever read or heard about the Phobos Incident?
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Posted: 08-Jan-2008 at 18:33 |
There is actual considerably research by private companies around the world, including U.S. and Japanese, for the construction of cheap deployable structures for a possible lunar base and even for mining asteroids near-Earth (possibly in the asteroid belt behind Mars). I was surprised to find the amount of articles I found in different databases online on space construction projects. It's actually quite fascinating - I thought it was all science fiction!
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Posted: 09-Jan-2008 at 05:07 |
Originally posted by nova roma
Originally posted by longshanks31
the terraforming of mars is possible, where we would venture after that is hard to say, maybe the moon europa, |
The US will have a permanent moon colony by 2024, possibly earlier.
I can't think of a better start for this type of research
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Research or military base, quite possible. Civilian colony? I doubt that will be possible by 2024, unless something really bad happens to the Earth..
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nova roma
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Posted: 09-Jan-2008 at 05:32 |
Originally posted by pekau
Originally posted by nova roma
Originally posted by longshanks31
the terraforming of mars is possible, where we would venture after that is hard to say, maybe the moon europa, |
The US will have a permanent moon colony by 2024, possibly earlier.
I can't think of a better start for this type of research
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Research or military base, quite possible. Civilian colony? I doubt that will be possible by 2024, unless something really bad happens to the Earth.. |
I worded that wrong. It will be a research facility, obviously. But it will be permanently occupied.
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Posted: 09-Jan-2008 at 09:57 |
I think people here have made it clear that the space race is still going on.
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Posted: 14-Feb-2008 at 09:27 |
That's what the russians want you to think. >.> <.< >.>
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Sun Tzu
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Posted: 15-Feb-2008 at 19:03 |
Well the Russian still have aspirations for space exploration.
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Posted: 07-Mar-2008 at 14:20 |
US is the only nation to:
- Land a man on the moon and send him back to earth safely
- Sucessfully land space probes and rovers on Mars
- Sent space probes to the outer planets
- Sent space probes that left the solar system
- Sent more people in space than every one else
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Posted: 07-Mar-2008 at 19:12 |
My neighbor holds the record for:
1. Most frogs sent to orbit in an estes rocket.
Edited by Seko - 07-Mar-2008 at 19:12
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Posted: 07-Mar-2008 at 19:20 |
Ren & Stimpy.
other than that. well, if it was really a race, the first one gets the price, so USSR wins. really, it matters little if the other guy keeps on running for miles and then declares he won by claiming a new finish line and waiting for the real winner to quit the field...
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Posted: 22-Mar-2008 at 01:01 |
The moon landings were a hoax, therefore Russia by default.
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Posted: 22-Mar-2008 at 02:51 |
Originally posted by Balian
The moon landings were a hoax, therefore Russia by default. |
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Posted: 22-Mar-2008 at 15:08 |
the space race merely just began, China and Japan just send probes to the moon, and india by the end of the decade.
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Posted: 05-Apr-2008 at 22:00 |
Originally posted by Temujin
Ren & Stimpy.
other than that. well, if it was really a race, the first one gets the price, so USSR wins. really, it matters little if the other guy keeps on running for miles and then declares he won by claiming a new finish line and waiting for the real winner to quit the field...
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But on what basis was the USSR the 'first one'? Why is simply orbiting a human being in a capsule the only meaningful 'finish line'?
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Posted: 09-Apr-2008 at 10:46 |
Nobody won.
That's because the Soviets and Americans missed the point. So they both lost.
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Posted: 22-Apr-2008 at 17:44 |
Originally posted by The Cosmic Fool
Nobody won.
That's because the Soviets and Americans missed the point. So they both lost.
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