The big bang theory

Hopalong X · 04 Jun 2012

2020 is the soonest just to set foot on the moon for USA anyway.

Check the date below. Nothing was ever done to start the new program.
If we started now maybe we could have an initial landing in 2020- maybe.

Make the price tag $500 billion now.

NASA to Unveil Plans to Send 4 Astronauts to Moon in 2018

by Brian Berger, Space News Staff Writer
Date: 14 September 2005 Time: 06:43 PM ET

WASHINGTON - NASA briefed senior White House officials Wednesday on its plan to spend $100 billion and the next 12 years building the spacecraft and rockets it needs to put humans back on the Moon by 2018. ...

seekermeister · 04 Jun 2012

Which approximates The date for the Russian program:

Russia to Go Back to the Moon Before Reaching for Mars | Features, Opinion & Analysis | RIA Novosti

They say that they are going explore the polar regions, which apparently has frozen water located there. What they intend to do with that water, I don't know, unless they want water rights, so that they can sell us their water for our moon base.

Hopalong X · 04 Jun 2012

Unfortunately we aren't getting started.

We might actually start doing something by 2016 if funding is available.

seekermeister · 04 Jun 2012

I doubt that it will be, because they are putting the cart before the horse, so that with the cart full of carrots that he can't eat, the horse won't look where it is going and keep plodding along toward nowhere. With all of the promises, all that we shall ever get are some intriguing pictures of some distant celestial bodies, along with claims for having discovered some new secret of the universe to fire our imaginations, so that we will keep paying for more, but getting less.

seekermeister · 04 Jun 2012

The Martians heard of our plans to go there, and sent this picture via the Rover:

Hopalong X · 04 Jun 2012

Seems like our reputation proceeds us as usual.

Well I don't know about the rest of you but I'm hitching a ride with Brink on his next ~~breakout~~ excursion.

mjf · 05 Jun 2012

Talking about He3 which is an isotope useful for fusion (kind of important don't you think) have you seen the movie
Moon
I think it is very sad that the US have throttled back their Space program. As a young kid I remember the magnificent Saturn 5 taking men to the moon.

seekermeister · 05 Jun 2012

Yes, the film is in my collection. Sad? Yes, but more for the reason that movie uses clones as a means of staffing the moon base.

Trucidation · 05 Jun 2012

Thorsen said:

If my math is right, In 360 years, we will have fully populated all 8 planets in our solar system. in the next generation after that we will need to fully populate a complete solar system with 448 Billion people that will be year 2372.

1. Incentives for people to breed less, penalties for those with large families
2. Euthanasia
3. Soylent Green, cannibalism
4. Go to war with another interstellar species

Come on, people, let's get some ideas going - our descendants' quality of life depends on us!

Hopalong X · 05 Jun 2012

Trucidation said:

Thorsen said:

If my math is right, In 360 years, we will have fully populated all 8 planets in our solar system. in the next generation after that we will need to fully populate a complete solar system with 448 Billion people that will be year 2372.

1. Incentives for people to breed less, penalties for those with large families
2. Euthanasia
3. Soylent Green, cannibalism
4. Go to war with another interstellar species

Come on, people, let's get some ideas going - our descendants' quality of life depends on us!

You can go first.

I mean with an idea, not actually go first.