Not one of humankinds greatest achievements. That's for sure.
Not one of humankinds greatest achievements. That's for sure.
I mean come on. The whole thing was a huge ass meaningless media feeding space race..
It's an achievement, but not for 'humankind'.
Start colonizing space. Discovering more than moondust. Then it'll be an achievement for humankind.
I think it is one of the greatest technological achievements. Whether or not it was necessary is another question.
Oh, most definatly. I just find the 'FOR ALL HUMANKIND' to be a bit misconceived.
I think the moon landing was pretty bitchin (aka a pretty great achievement), but they should've done more, they just left it hanging like a dead high 5, which rendered it almost pretty much utterly pointless. I mean really, if the Apollo 11 moon landing didn't happen, would society be the same as it is today? Yes, most definitely.
On a footnote, the international space station is the most useless thing in the universe.
Ok. Let me ask you this question:
Where's the next stop after the moon to explore in Space Exploration?
Mars.
How far away is Mars from the earth?
Oh, only about 35 Million Miles. But at it's farthest, it can be up to 250 Millions Miles away.
How far away is the Moon?
252,000 Miles away.
We've already been looking into Mars, sending robots to explore a fraction of it's surface. We've taken pictures from distant parts of this galaxy, which is probably about the best we can do for now.
Think about it.
Yeah i know man, but we should have set up like a station up on the moon years ago. Instead they just went back to Earth and now they're talking about going back again. That's 40 years that have gone by that could've been spent furthering our studies on the Moon and understanding how it is to live off the Earth. I believe that if we had set up research stations on the moon 40 years ago, we would be closer to getting to Mars now.
eh, i think if you went back and told any ancient from antiquity, even and especially the well educated like Plato or Confucious, that we would put human beings on a extraterrestrial body, they'd be pretty damn impressed, IF they didn't think you were full of shit.
Its not "for humanity", its for our egos. We can do shit like that, hurrah. It also lets us know we are not restrained to our "eternal cradle"
What's next/left? landing on and enventually terraforming the red planet or one of the moons of saturn or jupiter or w/e. Its pretty pointless to send anything out of our solar system if it can't excede c, so I wouldn't even seriously consider it. c may never be broken, and if it is, it wont happen anytime in our lives - sci fi junkies need to wake up to that one.
I'll side with you on this one, my friend.
I've found myself asking the same question, too. Why don't we go back? What's holding us from going back?
But what we did 40 years ago is different from what we're doing today because there are different people in charge, different focuses, and money is a factor.
But still, it does seem a little weird that we haven't gone back. The only way to go now is up, why aren't we?
Why don't we go back? What's holding us from going back?
We are, it is planned for 2020 I believe. They recently launched a rocket that will slam into the lunar surface and throw up the dust so they can test it for oxygen/water/hydrogen etc. for colonization. I think it launched in May.
I wonder why they're waiting until 2020, but I guess it is/will be extremely costly, and preparations must be perfect and intricately planned out.