I’m sorry. I can only assume that an orangutan got ahold of a keyboard and started banging. You’ve heard the phrase “Environmentalist wacko”? Apparently, this is him.
Personally, I think it’s great that we’re going back to the moon, but even if you don’t, sending a mission to the moon is not an extinction-level event. It just isn’t. Sorry.
I especially like the “delicate graitational interplay” part myself. Of course you realize that this only lends creedence to the “moon hoax” idea: if the “delicate graitational interplay” is so sensitive, how could we possibly have landed there without it spiralling out of control?
Hey, they brought back 800 pounds of moon rocks–you didn’t notice the way it disrupted all of Earth’s weather patterns, not to mention being directly responsible for the Arab oil embargo of 1973?
I can’t imagine the scale of modification needed to affect the gravitational interaction between the Earth and Moon. Not to mention the question of where we would get the raw materials required to erect structures on the moon massive enough to change its mass in any significant manner. Maybe if we crashed a few hundred asteroids into it, we’d have something going.
The moon’s mass is 7.35 x 10[sup]22[/sup] kg. That’s 73,500,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg. 73 sextillion kilograms. How much mining were going to do again?
I hate it when people just pull "facts"out of their asses. If you don’t know what adding or subtracting mass to or from the Moon will do, that doesn’t mean you should make crap up and spread ignorance! Do some research, for fuck’s sake!
Didn’t you watch the latest movie version of H.G.Well’s Time Machine? (Directed by ol’ H.G.'s great grandson or some such.) If we dig holes in the moon, IT WILL EXPLODE!!! And 800,000 years from now, everyone will be maori and the women will dress in sheer, shape hugging outfits, sans bra…
Ok, I know there is a downside here somewhere…Oh yeah. That Seven Up spokesguy somehow manages to survive as a computer simulation. Gah.
Actually, Duck Duck Goose, they didn’t bring back 800 pounds of moon rocks. That’s part of the ongoing moon hoax. The amazing thing is that the conspirators caused the 1973 oil embargo and Watergate to lend credibility to the moon hoax. Imagine how much more quickly we would have discovered NASA’s deception if we weren’t waiting on gas lines and watching impeachment hearings.
And don’t get me started on the timing of the whole Moinca Lewinsky/Bill Clinton thing compared to the release of the FOX moon hoax special.
Of course, weren’t they ‘digging’ by setting off underground nuclear blasts (not that I’m agreeing with the quote from democrats.com, just making a point about the movie)?
Just for the record: TransOrbital’s plans are to send an unmanned probe to land on the moon. It’s quite an accomplishment, to be sure, but it’s hardly what most people think of when they hear “we’re going back to the moon.”
I’d also like to point out that 810 trillion tons (the amount of material needed to change the moon’s mass (yes, I know I’m mixing measurements of weight and mass, let’s just assume that tons is measured at 1 G) by 1/1000th of 1%) is roughly equivalent to 140 million times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Khufu. So we’ve either got to truck 140,000,000 Great Pyramids up to the moon or excavate them from the moon to change the mass by .00001. Which I doubt would make a hell of a lot of difference in the Earth-Moon gravitational dynamic, which, incidentally, has been easily calculable since, oh, say, Johannes Kepler figured some stuff out in about 1619. And I’m pretty sympathetic to the Democratic party ideology. Yet, junk science gets me hot under the collar.
Why didn’t the moon spiral out of control or go off on a tangent when we crashed the Lunar Prospector into it, by the way? Certainly it couldn’t be because it’s 126 kg mass was utterly negligible compared to the mass of the moon, could it?
Hell, the more I think about this “article” the pissier I’m getting. I’ve got to go lie down and put a paper bag over my head or something.
