It was a big non event then, apparently it'll take months to "analyse" the data. So basically they have a few months to make some story up why this expensive and lets face it, odd experiment, was successful.
Maybe they are looking for gold now that the Dollar is on the way out as far as being the main currency is concerned, the Euro and Gold is gonna take over, so the USA better find some quick.
Originally posted by Bicnarok
It was a big non event then, apparently it'll take months to "analyse" the data. So basically they have a few months to make some story up why this expensive and lets face it, odd experiment, was successful.
so, how do you think science funding and experimentation works?
Originally posted by Hewhoknowsall
Some alien conspirators who claim that there may be aliens on the dark side of the moon seem to rule out the possibility that perhaps they are less advanced than us.
Probably because we lack the technology to build a gigantic life-supporting environmental dome on the moon ourselves.
I bet you all ten thousand dollars they find nothing but a bunch of moon dust.
Look, let the nerds have their playground. They run the country for us and come up with all of the things that save our lives when we need them. So, if a couple hundred nerds want to fire rockets at the moon...,why not? What the hell else are we gonna do with it? It's not like the big bastard does anything but take up space and shield us from meteors. These pocket protectors worked really hard to get straight A's in high school and they actually studied their way through college instead of cheating or suckin dick. Let them have their toys and lets be thankful their not using those rockets on us.
Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
I bet you all ten thousand dollars they find nothing but a bunch of moon dust.Look, let the nerds have their playground. They run the country for us and come up with all of the things that save our lives when we need them. So, if a couple hundred nerds want to fire rockets at the moon...,why not? What the hell else are we gonna do with it? It's not like the big bastard does anything but take up space and shield us from meteors. These pocket protectors worked really hard to get straight A's in high school and they actually studied their way through college instead of cheating or suckin dick. Let them have their toys and lets be thankful their not using those rockets on us.
Just an FYI, the Moon and it's gravitational pull is the reason why Earth isn't barren like Mars, it acts as a balancing agent, keeping Earth's orbit/rotation in check, given us or wonderful climates and steady seasons.
Originally posted by Robtard
Probably because we lack the technology to build a gigantic life-supporting environmental dome on the moon ourselves.
How do you know that on the DS there isn't some sort of chemical in the air that this species can breath? And that these species are really just stone-age level?
Originally posted by Hewhoknowsall
How do you know that on the DS there isn't some sort of chemical in the air that this species can breath? And that these species are really just stone-age level?
Because the the moon has virtually no atmosphere and any chemicals/gases released from the moon quickly dissipate across the moons surface and eventually out to space.
But if you want to believe a stone-age level species lives on the moon in an area where sunlight never reaches and some sort of magical chemical exist only on that spot, go for it. I've heard crazier batshit ideas, as I've read multiple religious texts.
Originally posted by Ushgarak
Just in the interest of spreading accuracy whilst this kind of thing is being mentioned... there's no such thing as a 'dark side' of the moon. Nothing is stopping one half of it getting any light. There's only a 'far side', that we don't see from Earth. It's not dark.
Thanks.
I was gonna say....solar eclipse (as a stark contrast to the idea that there is literally a dark side of the moon that never sees light) for $500, Alex. But ya sort of beat me to da punch.
It's one of those things that has always stuck with me- knowing the nature of the Moon might seem trivial, but I have never liked the idea of incorrect information being propogated, and the phrase 'Dark Side' does just that. All my time as a kid I heard it called the dark sdie, and so I formed this idea- as do most people, frankly- of the moon literally being an object where one side is always light and one side is always dark, and it is faintly ridiculous as both sides actually get the same amount of light. Two words that confuse generations of kids as to a basic truth. The more people that say 'far side' instead of 'dark side' the better.
The extension of this is that I was about 18 before I realised that I had no coherent idea what actually caused the phases of the moon- 'dark side thinking' had left me with this vague idea that something was getting in its way or that it was the shadow caused by Earth. But what hope did I have of knowing the truth when popular usage had left me thinking there was a dark side? Unless you appreciate that the moon does not have one permanently lit side but instead has a day/night cycle then its phases will never make sense.
Originally posted by Ushgarak
Just in the interest of spreading accuracy whilst this kind of thing is being mentioned... there's no such thing as a 'dark side' of the moon. Nothing is stopping one half of it getting any light. There's only a 'far side', that we don't see from Earth. It's not dark.
Thank **** someone finally said it. I was beginning to despair.