Space Provides the Resources for Its Exploration

On Mar 10, 6:45 pm, wrote:
Brad Guth wrote:

"How many lies per tonne does it take, per each tonne safely deployed
onto our moon? ....How many extra lies per tonne does it take for
whatever's getting
returned to Earth? "

"Lies per tonne?" Do I sense something tongue-in-cheek, here? :-)

You figure out the fly-by-rocket performance of our trust old Saturn-V
that never once failed us, and report back. As otherwise it took a
good many lies getting nearly 50 tonnes past the moon's L1 so
quickly.


Also:

"Come to think about it, we still haven't squat worth of anything as
interactively station-keeping within the moon's L1. Isn't that
downright pathetic, or what?"

I feel it is kind of pathetic that we did not stick with lunar and
solar system exploration, earlier. Project NERVA demonstrated the
usefulness of even crude nuclear propulsion (also, see posts about
Orion Project and Daedalus). But we didn't need nuclear to beat the
Russians to the moon, so that was dropped. JFK's moon speech included
reference to the other planets; that was just forgotten.

Much of JFK was forgotten because it only made us think outside the
box, and to otherwise deductively interpret science for the better of
whatever this off-world obtained science had to offer. Folks in
charge of our private parts and most of our hard earned loot, as such
do not like us village idiots thinking or much less interpreting
science for ourselves.

BTW, the Google X-prize will likely become the first of interactive
robotics on our moon that didn't utilize the semi-hard impact method
of getting stuff one-way deployed onto our physically dark and
electrostatic dusty moon.


The space elevator and CNT and the current plans for the Moon and Mars
are all very welcome, to me! Antimatter is a long term goal. My point
was that both energy and material exist for expanding civilization to
other worlds.

The Earth Space Elevator (ESE) fiasco isn't going to fly anytime soon,
but the Lunar Space Elevator (LSE-CM/ISS) can be accomplished within
existing technology, or otherwise if need be a Clarke Station can be
established, except that Venus L2 would be a whole lot better for a
station-keeping platform than roasting within our moon's L1.
.. - Brad Guth