h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A better way that sitting on top of a missile? But it's obvious! Climb up the string!

You want a cheap mode of propulsion. Ion engines. NASA has already developed the technology to utilize it. All it is is simple bursts of ionized gases that in theory within a period of a few years could propel a craft to near the speed of light. It doesn't require much fuel and since there's no friction in space the bursts are few and far between making maintenance a breeze.

"...and since there's no friction in space..."

Other than thinly dispersed gases and electromagnetic resistance...

I think we landed on the moon in 1969.
I think the photo's were enhanced as they were rubbish/damaged quality due to the conditions up there.
The ones that looked like they were staged, were cause the others were damaged beyond repair.
There were aliens up there, this is why no one from NASA talks about it, cause mass panic would erupt.
Neil Armstrong is an alien.

Amanda is in a funny mood, bare with her.

Amanda out

There is no friction in space. if you were to jump out of a space shuttle in open space you would float away at a constant rate of acceleration until your momentum couldn't increase due to the fact that the faster you go the more force it requires to move you. Anyway, you would continue floating until you ran into a celestial body or phenomenon.
And N. Armstrong is a media gimmick, not an alien.

"...you would float away at a constant rate of acceleration..."

My response to that is spherical, and in the plural.

Acceleration requires an ongoing force. Try expressing your opinion in a pub full of drunken scientists, and see how far it gets you...

I think they were two different people. The hoover man and the astral phenomena thing.
I was going to write a book once. The plot was thus:
The French or Germans etc, announced that they where going to put a man on the moon. The yanks got scared of this because the Frenchies/Germans where promising to land close to the 1966 touchdown area and would discover that the USA landings were in fact all false. They never took place!! shock horror!!
The Americans decide they have 3 options.
They can tell the world of their lies and preempt any European discoveries, ride the flack and blame it on kennedy. Hope that their global media machine can smooth things over with the rest of the planet. Risk loosing face and also global dominance as a result. Risk being scorned at with derision by the rest of the world, stand the chance of becoming just another 2 bit nuclear power.
Or they can halt the Continental launching by using whatever means necessary, even sabotage and murder. (Noooooo, never, i here you say)
Or they can launch a manned flight to the moon themselves, in total secrecy, to land men there who would then toss a few golf balls about, stomp around a bit to leave the right amount of footprints and also leave a few bits of spacecraft debris etc littered around the place. All in total secrecy and at such short notice.
I always knew which ending i would choose.
What would you choose?
zkptn

And now what do I see, but aha! More US self-sabotage in NASA. The shuttle Colombia (God rest the crew's souls) was, in my opinion deliberately sabotaged to gain sympathy so the US can go to Iraq, no questions asked. The Colombia has weathered a lot more than a nicked tile. On its first flight (also the first shuttle flight) it lost several tiles from its heat shield and landed without incident. I find it strange that ,right after a refit, it would burn up like a cheap firecracker on a hot day.

So are you telling us that the U.S. Government arranged for a Multi-billion Dollar shuttle shuttle to be destroyed publically with not only members of the our own militart and civilian population but foreign nationals to rally sympathy?

First, if that was true, wouldn't they be finding some way to blame terrorists for it instead of publicly stating that there is no way that terrorists could have been involved.

Second, I don't think the US government would be willing to destroy it's own people and citizens of other countries, particurally when we are trying to gain allies, because in Washington nothing remains secret for very long.



Blizita

Why not blow up an unmanned craft if that be the case?
It's a little far to go to kill 7 and destroy millions of pounds worth of equipment.
Surely, tiles could be lost from some places on the craft with little effect, but other places may make a big difference.
ie, if you lose your rear window in your car. You can still drive it reletivly safely. Lose the windscreen and you are in trouble.
Get me?

I know Americans can be a little more extreme than others, but come on!

can i ask a question? well ur oppinions dont matter because i have already put it up, why cant we just take a spy-cam which can read a newspapers headline from space and aim it to the moon to look for the flag or something?

What?

Maybe the shuttle was destroyed on purpose by the us government. Maybe the 7 astronauts were sacrificed. Maybe they are hiding on the ISS waiting to come down with the next scheduled Russian rocket. Maybe the moon is made of Stilton.
By the way...I pointed my Logitec webcam at the moon like that peep suggested but i still could not see the stars and bars, maybe it was to cloudy....

that aint wat i am refering to, i first saw this on tv and didnt know if it was true, but i have read a book that says they exist,
they r these satalites that r in space and have really powerfull telescopes that can even read the headlines on a paper that someone is reading on earth, they r used to spy on things, well at least on tv, enemy of the state, 24, behind enemy lines etc, so they could see the flag with them couldnt they?

I think this conversation should be ended, out of respect for the people who died recently, because everybody knows that nobody did that on purpose.

It is a stupid idea anyway that people would be sacrificed.
The subject of this forum was the moon landings and so maybe we should return to that?

All right then,
I've been thinking, I live in Kansas. Prove to me that the Eiffel Tower exists.

Blizita

Can't.

Although, if you go to the airport, and ask for a ticket to Paris. You might be able to find the tower for yourself.

Exactally, likewise unless somebody actually goes up to the moon and confirms that we went to the moon, and then comes back and manages to ward off the suspicision that the gov paid them off, we will just have to trust the government.

Blizita

Or until everybody has their own telescope powerful enough to see the old Hasselblad cameras, flags etc. left behind...