Everybody's Going to the Moon

At least according to this:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...e_050228120654

Personally, I'm all for it. Competition is good for space programs. I
didn't know India had any thoughts of going into space. Not really the
country I'd pick as most likely to go to the Moon.

Rick Alger
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"Richard Alger" wrote in message
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At least according to this:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...e_050228120654

Personally, I'm all for it. Competition is good for space programs. I
didn't know India had any thoughts of going into space. Not really the
country I'd pick as most likely to go to the Moon.

India's been launchin satellites since the early '70's; as for going to the
moon, that's new.


--
Alan Erskine
We can get people to the Moon in five years,
not the fifteen GWB proposes.
Give NASA a real challenge

"Richard Alger" wrote in message
...
At least according to this:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...e_050228120654

Personally, I'm all for it. Competition is good for space programs. I
didn't know India had any thoughts of going into space. Not really the
country I'd pick as most likely to go to the Moon.


Launching satellites toward the Moon is no big deal. And China's dream of a
manned Moon base is more than 20 years away which is so far into the future
(politically speaking) that it might as well have been 100 years. I
personally think it's just a whiff of hot air, nothing more.

Hm, US envisioned moon landing is circa 20 years away too, so is that
just a whiff of hot air ?

-kert

"kert" wrote ...
Hm, US envisioned moon landing is circa 20 years away too, so is that
just a whiff of hot air ?

I'd give even odds of no manned moon landing within 30 years.

Of course that's just an uninformed guess.

In article .com,
kert wrote:
Hm, US envisioned moon landing is circa 20 years away too, so is that
just a whiff of hot air ?

Basically, yes. Work toward a shuttle replacement is the *only* part of
the glorious Twenty-Year Plan which happens while Bush is still in power,
so it's the only part that is likely to happen as planned. Almost
certainly, the later phases will at least be changed by his successors.
Even the shuttle replacement is by no means assured.

To have some assurance that it would actually happen, the schedule would
need to be rather tighter, so that real momentum has built up by the time
the White House changes hands. (Although one cynic has suggested that if
we consider history, the key step is to assassinate Bush. :-))
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"Think outside the box -- the box isn't our friend." | Henry Spencer
-- George Herbert |

Competition is never good, humans do lousy when they are told to
compete.

On other hand, humans are quite good when they are reaching for a goal.

So... set a goal, but don't compete.


The X-Prize was won not because competition, but because Paul Allen
gave Scaled Composites a money that is TWICE the price money, and who
knows what else that Scaled Composites recieved. If Omni Consumer
Products or Weyland Yutani and so on sponsored Scaled Composites,
would it still fair to compete?

Tier One (White Knight and SpaceShip One) came into existence because
Scaled Composites have a goal and the resources, not because of
competition.



As for India.

The people of India is actually quite clever people.



As for India going to the Moon.

Have the current government clear the Moon's immigration yet? Since
it's obviously that the current U.S.A., Russia, and China governments
aren't able to clear immigration.

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As for India going to the Moon.

Have the current government clear the Moon's immigration yet? Since
it's obviously that the current U.S.A., Russia, and China governments
aren't able to clear immigration.

What's your point? None of those (or any other) countries have
Customs Agents or a Border Patrol on the Moon, last I heard....

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Joann Evans wrote:
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As for India going to the Moon.

Have the current government clear the Moon's immigration yet? Since
it's obviously that the current U.S.A., Russia, and China governments
aren't able to clear immigration.

What's your point? None of those (or any other) countries have
Customs Agents or a Border Patrol on the Moon, last I heard....


What do you think happens to the chances of the next supply ship
reaching you if US decides that you are illegaly on moon, in
possession of technology that should not be in the hands of
individuals and of multiple terrorist uses?

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Sander

+++ Out of cheese error +++

Sander Vesik wrote:

Joann Evans wrote:
wrote:


As for India going to the Moon.

Have the current government clear the Moon's immigration yet? Since
it's obviously that the current U.S.A., Russia, and China governments
aren't able to clear immigration.

What's your point? None of those (or any other) countries have
Customs Agents or a Border Patrol on the Moon, last I heard....


What do you think happens to the chances of the next supply ship
reaching you if US decides that you are illegaly on moon, in
possession of technology that should not be in the hands of
individuals and of multiple terrorist uses?


As the US (nor any other nation) can claim celestial bodies under
current treay, under what legal basis can this action be taken?

We would be acting illegally ourselves, and can expect the rest of
the world to treat us as such.

The 'terrorism' excuse doesn't cover everything. Otherwise, you could
never rent a Ryder truck again...


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