What makes an ideal Moon base?

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:27:48 GMT, (Henry Spencer)
wrote:

the ground, and the secret high-speed-motion mode in the arm, there won't
be any doubt as to who's in command up there... :-)
"Nice lab module you've got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it."

Uh, Henry... wouldn't we be better off building our *own* station -
rather than threatening to steal someone elses'...? :-O

successfully before; it was sheer bad luck (and the great good fortune of
Boeing in particular) that the Comet's designers opted for square-cornered

Not to mention - smaller windows. :-)

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:16:43 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

This of course shouldn't be taken as an admission that I am ever wrong,
or that anyone who disagrees with me doesn't do so due to a sapping and
pollution of all their precious bodily fluids by the demon of
communist-inspired fluoridation- that has no doubt reduced their mental

Just don't let anyone else look at the Big Board... ;-)

In article ,
Len Lekx wrote:
"Nice lab module you've got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it."

Uh, Henry... wouldn't we be better off building our *own* station -
rather than threatening to steal someone elses'...? :-O

Well, yeah, we would be, but just *try* to get the tightwads in Ottawa to
fund anything that wasn't their idea... :-(
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"Think outside the box -- the box isn't our friend." | Henry Spencer
-- George Herbert |

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 03:42:33 GMT, (Henry Spencer)
wrote:

"Nice lab module you've got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it."
Uh, Henry... wouldn't we be better off building our *own* station -
rather than threatening to steal someone elses'...? :-O
Well, yeah, we would be, but just *try* to get the tightwads in Ottawa to
fund anything that wasn't their idea... :-(

True enough... unless we told'em it was for Quebec. :-/

Maybe we could lobby`em for our own launch capability. After all,
we're closer to the high-inclination ISS orbit than Kennedy is... how
about a Bombardier mini-shuttle? ;-)