"Three Engineers Walk Into a Bar" - Land on the Moon 8 Years Later

Started by Unbeliever, March 01, 2019, 06:32:32 PM

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Unbeliever

Landing on the lunar surface doesn't take a vast government program any more, apparently. This may well be the future of space missions, so maybe a lunar colony won't be far off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceIL

QuoteSpaceIL is an Israeli organization, established in 2011, that was competing in the Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) to land a spacecraft on the Moon. SpaceIL successfully launched its Beresheet lander on 22 February 2019, which is expected to land on the Moon's surface on 12 April 2019. The Beresheet mission includes plans to measure the Moon's local magnetic field to help understand how it formed, and also carries a digital "time capsule". Beresheet would be the first Israeli spacecraft to travel beyond Earth orbit and the first private lander on the Moon. Israel would also become the fourth country, after the Soviet Union, United States, and China, to land a spacecraft on the Moon.
The SpaceIL team was founded as a nonprofit organization wishing to promote scientific and technological education in Israel. Its total budget for the mission is estimated at US$95 million, provided by Israeli billionaire Morris Kahn and other philanthropists, as well as the Israel Space Agency (ISA).




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_9mQ0Zj_u4


https://www.cnet.com/news/israeli-lunar-lander-beresheet-back-on-track-after-glitch/
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Cavebear

Quote from: Unbeliever on March 01, 2019, 06:32:32 PM
Landing on the lunar surface doesn't take a vast government program any more, apparently. This may well be the future of space missions, so maybe a lunar colony won't be far off.

I very much hope so.  If commercial enterprises can't do it eventually, we can't afford it.
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Baruch

Quote from: Cavebear on March 21, 2019, 07:27:40 AM
I very much hope so.  If commercial enterprises can't do it eventually, we can't afford it.

Correct, but that is why we need government, to do the things that have to be done, that we can't afford.
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Baruch

Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on March 21, 2019, 07:36:34 AM
Read Heinlein's "The Man Who Sold The Moon".

But, but .. any occupation of the Moon will be by some socialist collective, so no danger from capitalism here ;-)
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Unbeliever

If there were any real profit to make, we'd've been there already.
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Gawdzilla Sama

Quote from: Unbeliever on March 21, 2019, 01:17:17 PM
If there were any real profit to make, we'd've been there already.
IF we could have been there sooner we would have been there sooner. This is not off the shelf shit we're talking about here.
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Unbeliever

I think we could have been there sooner if the political of financial motivation had been sufficient.
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Cavebear

Quote from: Unbeliever on March 21, 2019, 01:17:17 PM
If there were any real profit to make, we'd've been there already.

"Like timber in North America in 1400"?  he asked innocently...
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Baruch

Lots of old growth forest on the dark side of the Moon, that is why the Nazis are hiding there.
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Cavebear

Quote from: Baruch on March 21, 2019, 07:07:22 PM
Lots of old growth forest on the dark side of the Moon, that is why the Nazis are hiding there.

Better than the Skrulls and Krees...
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Baruch

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Cavebear

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Gawdzilla Sama

We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
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