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2020 - how NASA is going back to the Moon

uncleg

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Thought they were going to use a Tesla, eliminate the need for a rover.
 

80watts

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Sorry the Tesla is already up there, it just needs gas and oil and its ready to go. Its on its way to Mars??

As for Steve C, he was entertaining....
 

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Sorry the Tesla is already up there, it just needs gas and oil and its ready to go. Its on its way to Mars??

As for Steve C, he was entertaining....
The Tesla is out the other side of Mars and it’s probably been ripped to shreds by the solar wind?
 

carvesg

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I won’t tell anyone what to think. :)

IMHO there are many holes in NASA’s stories.
Because the Americans would not have been that obsessed during the cold war to prove to the world that they could out do the USSR in space .

Or try to prove to the Soviet Union that they could send a missile in Khrushchev bedroom just for the sake of it .

Yes in those years the US defense budget was so restrictive during the after war boom that they would have thought that a landing on the moon was futile and way outside of their means.
 

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OK answer 1 question, I'll even make it multiple choice. What have people been bouncing laser beams off since July 1969?
a) alien artifacts
b) natural formations that have remained shiny even after billions of years micro meteorites scouring them
c) mirrors left by the Apollo astronauts
 
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80watts

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Moons surface will work if its reflective.
Ever see someone measure a room with a laser? Seems like the walls are not that reflective, but they are.
 
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Everything (almost) is reflective. Just a matter of having a machine sensitive enough to “see” the reflection.
This is true, here’s an interesting picture of sunlight reflecting off a methane lake on the moon Titan.

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masterblaster

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Of course the moon missions suddenly stopped due to alien bases that were discovered there. Not sure it’s safe to go back yet.
 

take8easy

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The plan is to set up an 'agency' there to lure male astronauts to volunteer.
 
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