Another topic I'm obsessed over is the moon landing... Without getting political:...
I want to know how was it what back in early 2000's they states they wanted to go back to the moon but would take to like 2015 or something (forgot the exact dates or hopes of when it could be accomplished) technology has come a VERY VERY long way since the moon landing era... I mean cripes computers to do calculations would fill an entire room, I find it all super suspect.... The whole Stanley Kubrick theory etc... All very fascinating.... I've seen the suppose scientifical rebukes on the theories but I still just can't wrap my head around that actually occurring or if it actually did happen I find It harder to believe we did have help or tech of the little green people... My god I need to go to sleep but this thread kept moderated without letting it getting political is just AWESOME! Rep
Kinda depends. Partly it's money. I don't remember the exact figures, but NASA used to get twenty or thirty times as much money.
No way can you go to the Moon with the current budget, NASA has had to cut programs all over the place. Most successful thing
we ever did, and we're just letting it go to hell.
Partly it's experience. Building rockets is not like designing a car. Especially the big ones, the people are retired, and we didn't
even try to hold onto the expertise. We'd have to re-develop the big rockets, or buy some rides from the Russians.
Partly it's standards. We took a lot of risks back then, it's amazing more people didn't die.
Look at the Russian Space program.... We want it to be perfectly safe now, and that is not easy.
But I think it's mostly cultural. There was a long time between Columbus and the first colony in America.
Took time to sink in, over a century. Same thing is happening now, despite the fact Space has become
big business now. The incredible potential hasn't sunk in, the need to do it (to deal with killer asteroids,
and find rare metals and minerals) hasn't sunk in.
It will.