How Would It Be To Live On The Moon

@LastVigilante: "I'd like to be that optimistic" you were doing really well, but after that it sucked. I think we will see a landing on mars. It just may not be NASA pulling it off. And you might be a 112 when you see it.

--Core--

I have decided that no matter how much I would like to be an astronaut, the second I put on a spacesuit, my nose would start to itch. I once read Welcome to Moonbase by Ben Bova that was a simulated employee manual for someone starting to go live and work in a large moonbase.

pschroeter

We're going from the Space Race to the Base Race.

MePerson

@Kaiser-Machead: Those aren't pillows...

@Jim Topoleski: It appears the new commenting antifacebook shield is down already.

@Kaiser-Machead: I find your lack of original conversation disturbing.

@CurvesWantsOptionalExtendedViewBack...: Hey, at least its not Detroit.

hypocalypto

@saycarramrod: >< Dammit, beat me to it!

It started off so promisingly, too:

"Escaping Earth's gravity is kind of like ...

(Good, good - a great quantitative analogy is surely forthcoming)

... getting out of a well.

(Wait, what? Hmmm, maybe he's going somewhere with this, let's wait and see).

And you start out at the bottom of the well ...

(OK, so far so good, just waiting for the figures to materialise)

... and it's gonna be a lot of work ...

(here they come)

... to climb your way out.

(Goddamit I want my twenty seconds back)"

AnAphexTwin

Once you get past the excitement about the moon being the Moon, it looks like a really shitty place to have to live. You'd never actually be LIVING on the Moon, you'd be living inside various pressurized metal tubes. On the Moon.

"Escaping Earth's gravity is kind of like getting out of a well. And you start out at the bottom of the well...and it's gonna be a lot of work...to climb your way out."

Wow. This guy must tell great bedtime stories to his kids.

saycarramrod

@mikeness: Not with me.

NurseDave

Space sports anyone?

@mikeness: Yeah, I should really withhold my comments until after I've had my morning coffee. :)

I am, however, looking forward to being proven wrong.

@32ndnote: They don't! Muahahahah!

Oh, wait...

Alduron

"get this unprecedented load off this earth"

(that's what she said)

shoelessone

@Baldyman1966 is Holding out for a Hero: That was no moon.

Kaiser-Machead

@Baldyman1966 is Holding out for a Hero: Will you be here all week? And should I remember to tip my waitress?

@DigablePlanet: Your mom faked it - OH SNAP!

@Jim Topoleski: That whooshing noise is the sound of a joke going over your head.

electricarchie

@LastVigilante: Competition for the benefit of national pride isn't a bad thing in this case. These types of technological races have been huge for us over the years. I think that we are on the cusp of some game changing breakthroughs in nanotechnology and miniaturization that will swing the doors to space wide open a lot sooner than you think.

Don't be so pessimistic, it's not your style.

@nonpareil: Haha, either he didn't understand, or that was some seriously subtle humor. Either way, I give him 4 stars and two enthusiastic thumbs up.

@zukny: You know what was a catastrophe? The movie "TIME MACHINE".

@midiac: Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Anyone up for a game of CATCH?? GO LONG!!!

NASA's gonna fake it

DigablePlanet

@Jim Topoleski: It was a joke, derf.

nonpareil

only takes 3 days to get there, so BFD

Pwnerjam3.0

@XanderVincent: Gotta watch out for those pigeons!!

midiac

I'd like to be that optimistic, but no moon base of that complexity will ever exist in any of our lifetimes, even the youngest of us. I wish I could be 100% certain I'd see a landing on Mars, but even that is seeming less and less likely.

I don't like this whole "space race" attitude, where individual countries "all want in on the action" as the video states. I think things would be a lot easier, both on budgets and resources, if we worked together. "For the benefit of all man-kind" right? But that, being the humans that we are, is even less likely.

/pessimism

didn't sting or the police make a video along these lines?

qbxk

I already live in Cleveland, so how much worse could it be?

(Thats a joke for those from Parma with no sense of humor.)

I didnt see any place on that moon habitat to plug in my iPod! what gives?

VideoVampire

@craig_16: no, its just they had no atmosphere.

Thanks for being the straightman.

@Baldyman1966 is Holding out for a Hero: Pool and darts just aren't the same in 1/6th gravity are they...

What are the chances of ARES V blowing up at launch? Getting on the moon without any supplies/transport/bunkers would REALLY sucks.

@zukny: the book does as well.

The bus from NJ to NYC isn't bad. I always drive up to NJ park there, and then take the bus in. But anyways.

I hope the world kNows that the Movie TIME MACHINE predicts catastrophic events if we build on the moon.

Meh, tried living on the moon once, but the pubs were rubbish.

Commuting to NYC from Jersey is no issue at all. Its like a 15-30 minute train ride at worst. My boss commutes further in Jersey to get to my work (hour parkway ride from south to north)

Jim Topoleski

@TerryinSt.Paul:

We're whalers on the moon! We carry a harpoon!

fsusmithc2

@TerryinSt.Paul:

TerryinSt.Paul

Luna park here we come!
[video.tvguide.com]

TerryinSt.Paul

But how do they get back?

Aliens... AAAAALIEENSSSSSS!!!!

XanderVincent

Its NASA's race to lose obviously, and despite all the concerns I believe Ares is the way to go. Why? The obvious advantage of a two rocket system, you can lift more without being bottlenecked (Meaning it makes a moon base possible). Ares-IX makes its first test flight in August which is more then can be said for any launch vehicle having been offered as a alternative.

bbfreak