I'll spare you yet another post of the Tyson lecture, but I will venture to say that we were a lot better (by which I mean "healthier"...best way I can think to put it) when we did crap that was incredibly dangerous because it was there and it was lookin at us wrong. Oh, you're going to put us on top of a giant pipebomb fueled with nitroglycerin and shoot us at a tiny rock in outer space and it might be DANGEROUS? Nevermind! I've got KIDS and stuff!
Give me even odds of dying horribly and ask me if I want to go walk on the moon and there won't be any thinking involved. All in.
We're not The Greatest Generation. We're their fat lazy kids, squandering the advantages they built for us.
History will dictate who's wrong or right on that point.
Best line from, "From the Earth to the Moon."
"There are 2 Million moving parts on the Saturn V rocket, if it's 99.9% accurate, that still leaves 2,000 things to go wrong."
Puts the whole program in perspective, and they did it with slide rules.
Apollo 18.
Has anyone asked before why if they went to the moon with 50's technology they can't go now with our current advances in tech?????
Has anyone asked before why if they went to the moon with 50's technology they can't go now with our current advances in tech?????
No bucks, no Buck Rodgers.Who said we can't go with today's technology?
No bucks, no Buck Rodgers.
No, he asked why can't we use today's tech. My response meant that there is no money to pay for it. It would cost trillions to duplicate the Apollo project in todays money, and the govt can't afford it. Space exploration and colonization/exploitation will be the province of private enterprise going forward.That isn't a problem with today's technology.
No, he asked why can't we use today's tech. My response meant that there is no money to pay for it. It would cost trillions to duplicate the Apollo project in todays money, and the govt can't afford it. Space exploration and colonization/exploitation will be the province of private enterprise going forward.