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#2 Re: Science, Technology, and Astronomy » The Saturn V » 2004-01-17 19:26:58
It was the accomplishment of a dream. It was built for a purpose, and it did it well. We need to get back to that place!
#3 Re: Not So Free Chat » Bush's New Space Policy - Discussion, reactions, questions... » 2004-01-15 16:40:42
We may have been to the Moon, the technology to get there and back has been proven, but the infrastructure has been dismantled for the Shuttle program. It needs to be rebuilt to make it to Mars.
Just as it took Mercury and Gemini to test out various ideas such as docking and undocking and many test flights of the Saturn/Apollo systems and a fly-by on Apollo 8, you need to see if you can efficiently put resources onto another body and assemble them into a living environment.
Agreed that the environments on the Moon and Mars are vastly different, but you can't send landers to Everest from Space and assemble them in the same manner as you can on the Moon.
Some may say going to the Moon is pointless, it holds little to no value to Humanity. The same argument can be made for Mars. Going to Mars isn't going to end famine and tyranny.
The reason you go is to gain knowledge, and to say the knowledge that we have already acquired from the Moon is basically all that is needed is naive.
The experience of long distance travel, and a successful program to the Moon is invaluable to us getting to Mars.
Many of the people involved with Apollo are gone, we need to get the program back to doing something else outside of low earth orbit. Going to the Moon is a good place to start.
#4 Re: Water on Mars » Just a thought. » 2004-01-10 09:13:55
#5 Re: Water on Mars » Just a thought. » 2004-01-09 23:03:02
Could these valleys and gullies really be the product of dust flows?
I have seen some of the theory that this could be the case in some instances. I know there is water at the poles.
Glaciers carved up the Earth, could they be the result of this same process there?
A great many people much more informed and educated then I could answer.
It would be nice to know we are not alone in the universe.
#6 Re: Not So Free Chat » Hello - New here » 2004-01-09 22:57:43
Thanks very much everyone. Mars is a fascinating place. I hope we make it in my lifetime, and I am only 27!
#7 Re: Not So Free Chat » Any poets? - Comments, CONSTRUCTIVE critisism, ideas. » 2004-01-08 20:42:51
round we sit the fire,
fire;
up it burns,
higher, higher;
round we stand the fire,
fire;
up we lift,
higher, higher;
round we dance the fire,
fire;
up we jump,
higher, higher;
round we leave the fire,
fire;
up we fly,
higher, higher.Not a poem, but something a bit more 'basic', my intention was to mimic something of a fireside chant. Imagine yourself in a cave, outside a million fires burn in the night sky, campfires of the dead, or some strange gods? Gazing at those unknown pin-pricks of light, wondering what, or who, might be there, or what secrets they hold.
Poetry should be read aloud to fully enjoy it, and usually you are better served by having someone read it to you (there is a difference!). If you try to read this outloud, stress the secondary repeated word (either 'fire' or 'higher')with more emphasis and a little speed (indeed, the entire poem should pick up pace as you progress)
So, any thoughts?
Very primal, I like it.
#8 Re: Not So Free Chat » Any poets? - Comments, CONSTRUCTIVE critisism, ideas. » 2004-01-08 20:40:46
Sky Bound
Way up in the cosmos,
there is a blue ball,
from a distance,
it seems so small,
I imagine peering,
looking down from the sky,
standing on another planet,
a world I left behind,
watching from a distance,
as it rotates around and around,
tranquil and peaceful,
without a problem to be found.TSATS -- 2003
This was inspired by the picture of Earth from Mars, and the strife we as a planet have been going through with all the conflict and war. From space the world is peaceful...one wonders if humanity will ever get the point.
Copyright Christopher Krollage, 2003-04. Republish with copyright acknowledgment is permissible.
#9 Re: Not So Free Chat » Hello - New here » 2004-01-08 19:40:48
Hello everyone! I was directed here by the Mars Society Website that I went to because of Space.Com's "Eyes on Mars" DVD.
Mars is where I hope to be one day, and if I don't get to put foot on the planet, I hope to help build something that does.
A few more years of school, and I hope to make it!
Anyway, I hope to have fun here.
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