so heres what i been thinking about lately ok.

check this out.

in 1975 the IBM 5100 computer came out.


now this bad boy could cost from 8,000-20,000 dollars ok?
the processing power was less than my shitty motorola phone. actually my phone is about 1,000,000 times more processing power
plus my phone has a full color LCD.


so that was in 1975 ok?

How the fuck did humans land on the moon AND COME BACK. in 1969.

If you watch the footage from 1969, it looks grainy as fuck. it's black and white and you can barely see anything
there is major ghosting and it looks like total shit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4

now we know in 1969 they had very nice film cameras. we also know the space shuttle was equipped with them.

but a funny thing happened on the way back from the moon. the footage was lost lol.
yup. the original footage from the Apollo 11 was all lost.

the color / high definition / good quality film was gone.

so heres my questions for you or really just in general.

I'm not saying we didnt go to the moon. but I'm asking.

Why in the year 2012, when you and me have 8 core godly desktops. the government has 100 core computers
why cant we do any more space travel to other planets.


why cant ANY OTHER COUNTRY. Not just USA, but china / russia / germany / canada / w/e
Why cant any of them. build some new development for a ship.
and start traveling space.


if it was possible to do this shit back in 1969. then surely we could go further and longer than before ROFL

did you ever think about this ? I have been obsessing over it for the past 2 days now.

This post was edited by Jagx on Aug 20 2012 03:02pm

You're attempting to distinguish between government technology and public technology.

All I can say is... Good luck.

Well all i know is that NASA says they cant build another saturn V rocket because they "lost" all the blueprints and such to build and understand them.

Actually I've read a document online that says they have been reverse engineering stuff from Apollo 11 so they could better understand how they made space travel possible in 69

NASA had a way bigger budget back then. US was actively comparing dick sizes with Russia, and the public was willing to give more money to space exploration to grow the national penis size. Now nobody cares about space anymore, in US people just want bigger burgers and saltier french fries, and in Russia people are too busy just trying to survive. Nobody wants to spend on space programs, and without money nothing can happen regardless of how good our technology is.

Putting a person on the moon would be quite easy today (compared to the dangerous adventure of the late 60s). It's extremely expensive however, and there isn't much left to learn about the lunar surface. The most intersting science will be done on mars, so that's where we're sending rovers. When we have the technological capability to build a self-sustaining colony on the moon (or an easy, cheap way to get into space) expect to see renewed interest in manned moon missions.

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rofl, mars is nice dont get me wrong but there are tons and tons and tons and more tons of reason to continue study of the moon, just recently we found an abundance of water/ ice there who knows what else we will find under the surface, the moon has the same comp as the earth,

We need to look at the moon more seriously before any other inter solar system ventures,

A moon base will be completely ideal and extremely cost effective as a staging point for our activities, with a moon base we would not need to bring up extra fuel/ air/ water, because of the water on the moon can be mined and turned into all 3 , not to mention the abundance of helium 3 on the moon that is just perfect for nuclear reactors to help solve the energy problem currently on earth ,

But before all that we need to push nano science / tubes to the point we can build a tether and create the space elevator the current way we travel into space is completely inefficient and costly , were using old plants and dinosaurs fossils to power our space ships how ugly when a space evevator would run off solar panels on the top platform for pretty much free power

I agree bro.

The men on the moon only walked like not even 10 miles?

We're talking about a place thats bigger than the whole continent of asia and yet people think we figured out all the mysteries of the moon.

We need to go back and why the hell haven't we been making any advancements into this type of shit?

its called politics.

other countries fear the implications of trying to colonize the moon and the united states has to deal with the fact the public no longer cares about going to the moon.

just to start a colony by current methods would be insanely expensive and pretty much require a global effort because of that problem.

a space elevator would be a good thing if it would ever work but i can't imagine the cargo capacity being very high at the beginning.

the load wouldn't be much of an issue as the strength of the cable , the rotation of the earth would put a lot of tension on it but on the plus side the same rotation is what keeps the upper plat form in place and obv it would be more then a single cable each cable would its own independent electric motor , more motors to spread the load evenly

its all about nano tubes thats the only piece of technology where waiting for then this is possible