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So, what's on the Moon?
China to Launch Lunar Space Probe Before Year's End
https://www.usnews.com/news/news/art...fore-years-end China announced plans on Tuesday to launch a space probe to bring back samples from the moon before the end of the year, Still don't know the composition of the Moon after 50 years? |
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 12:13:37 -0700 (PDT), StarDust
wrote: China to Launch Lunar Space Probe Before Year's End https://www.usnews.com/news/news/art...fore-years-end China announced plans on Tuesday to launch a space probe to bring back samples from the moon before the end of the year, Still don't know the composition of the Moon after 50 years? Do you know the story of the blind men and the elephant? The Moon is a big place. |
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StarDust:
China to Launch Lunar Space Probe Before Year's End ... Still don't know the composition of the Moon after 50 years? Chris L Peterson: Do you know the story of the blind men and the elephant? The Moon is a big place. Still. The Moon is made of rocks, dust, perhaps a bit of ice, and a trace of man-made detritus. Who cares? If Google serves me, the ocean basins comprise about 360 million sq km. or about 71 percent of the Earth's surface. The Moon's surface comprises about 38 million sq km. We know considerably more about the Moon's geography than we do the seabed. Not to mention the 1.35 billion cubic km of seawater that lies above the seabed. We have no idea what lives in that water. What we have done to date is comparable to trawling the ocean with a whale-sized net and concluding that it's all whales. Prochlorococcus: most abundant photosynthetic organism, but not isolated until 1988 because it is too small to be seen with conventional optical microscopy ‹E.O. Wilson. Prefer dry land? Wilson calls bacteria the dark matter of life; they are there, but we haven't found them. There are 6000 named species, but all of those and countless more species are present among the 10-to-50 million bacteria that inhabit each *gram* of moist, fertile. topsoil. A ton of fertile topsoil probably contains four million unknown species. For my money, we ought to send men back to the Moon after we have catalogued, say, 98 percent of the species on Earth, including the oceans. Which translates to "never." **** "...the Disney version of science... People can be sent up into space and hit a few golf balls around on the surface of the Moon...that¹s all fine if you like that kind of spectacle, but it has nothing to do with scientific research." ‹Steven Weinberg -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm |
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On Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 3:13:41 PM UTC-4, StarDust wrote:
China to Launch Lunar Space Probe Before Year's End https://www.usnews.com/news/news/art...fore-years-end China announced plans on Tuesday to launch a space probe to bring back samples from the moon before the end of the year, Still don't know the composition of the Moon after 50 years? I guess the best reaction would be...so what? It's like going out tomorrow and declaring you just invented the cellphone. |
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:04:46 -0400, Davoud wrote:
StarDust: China to Launch Lunar Space Probe Before Year's End ... Still don't know the composition of the Moon after 50 years? Chris L Peterson: Do you know the story of the blind men and the elephant? The Moon is a big place. Still. The Moon is made of rocks, dust, perhaps a bit of ice, and a trace of man-made detritus. Who cares? The Moon has a great deal to reveal about the origins of the Solar System. If Google serves me, the ocean basins comprise about 360 million sq km. or about 71 percent of the Earth's surface. The Moon's surface comprises about 38 million sq km. We know considerably more about the Moon's geography than we do the seabed. But we know less about the Moon's geology than we do about Earth's... including the deep ocean. But it's not an either-or thing. We should be exploring the Earth and the Moon. For my money, we ought to send men back to the Moon after we have catalogued, say, 98 percent of the species on Earth, including the oceans. Which translates to "never." Never say never, but yes, there's no need at all to send men to the Moon again for the foreseeable future. But the mission under discussion is a robotic sample return mission. Seems like very good work, and the possibility of very good science. |
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 12:13:37 -0700 (PDT), StarDust
wrote: China to Launch Lunar Space Probe Before Year's End https://www.usnews.com/news/news/art...a-to-launch-lu nar-space-probe-before-years-end China announced plans on Tuesday to launch a space probe to bring back samples from the moon before the end of the year, Still don't know the composition of the Moon after 50 years? There are many places on the Moon which never have been sampled. And no lunar samples have been brought to the Moon in the last 40 or so years. But the major motivation for this mission is probably for China to show the rest of the world that they can do it and to prepare for future manned lunar missions. Welcome back to the space race! |
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:04:46 -0400, Davoud wrote:
Still. The Moon is made of rocks, dust, perhaps a bit of ice, and a trace of man-made detritus. Who cares? People who, like you, don't care will of course not bother to launch lunar missions. |
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On Monday, 13 March 2017 11:04:55 UTC+1, Paul Schlyter wrote:
People who, like you, don't care will of course not bother to launch lunar missions. Please, Sir! I care about lunar missions, Sir! I have a long list of free ticket winners for one-way trips. Let's just start at the top and work our way down: Trump, The Perp, Assad, Kim, ... It seems entirely apt that the word "lunacy" is based on Luna. There's plenty of it about. ;-) |
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Davoud:
Still. The Moon is made of rocks, dust, perhaps a bit of ice, and a trace of man-made detritus. Who cares? Paul Schlyter: People who, like you, don't care will of course not bother to launch lunar missions. Not exactly the case. Did that already. Spent $24 billion up to the return of Apollo 11, a few more $billion after that. Now, if China wants to spend $billions, I'm all for it. But I'm some $trillions short of having a penny just now. -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm |
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On Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 12:13:41 PM UTC-7, StarDust wrote:
China to Launch Lunar Space Probe Before Year's End https://www.usnews.com/news/news/art...fore-years-end China announced plans on Tuesday to launch a space probe to bring back samples from the moon before the end of the year, Still don't know the composition of the Moon after 50 years? I think, soon we'll have a Moon base populated by yellow man! All they need to grow there is rice to survive! |
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