Who's footing the fuel bill for this challenge, the participants themselves? Nobody's going to spend 180 million in fuel and R n D just to make Mack 30 mil this is retardeds.
they probably should've thrown the money they used for this video into the pot while they were at it, but I'm a little more optimistic: if this xprize pans out in the near future, say five years, there's a decent chance people will give up on NASA and we can finally scrap the damn thing. That would be something :D
$30M = pretty much free publicity for google. If you guys really want to stimulate private space exploration, you need to make it at least a few hundred million.
@slackeriii2 actually, the smaller the amount the greater will be the chance of innovation that will drive down costs of such a program. It could ensure efficiency (cheaper) and thus a more sustainable re-landing for follow up missions
@gudsaute We're talking about a $30 million prize pool here, including 20 million for first place ... Efficiency and driving down costs is great and all, but 20 million dollars makes about as much difference as if there was no prize at all, considering this is aerospace research and development, the most expensive and complex endeavor people have pursued so far.
what a show. why didnt ya just get bubba to build a rover with camera's in his garage, find someone else for a decent but inexpensive lander, hitch a ride up from someone heading that way and just sling it towards the moon. we would have already been viewing the video's and pictures of the lunar landscape we dont have. this contest started in 2007 and doesnt get decided until 2015. how many years later then before you send it. i'll probably die of old age before it ever gets there
This is so sad, the fact that most people rather blow each other up then work together to achieve the next level of human civilization, this should be called
This is so sad, the fact that most people rather blow each other up then work together to achieve the next level of human civilization, this should be called
This is so sad, the fact that most people rather blow each other up then work together to achieve the next level of human civilizations, this should be called
Wow, I love Google! This is so cool! So inspirational!
I'd also like to add that I think it's quite sad to see NASA's funding being withheld. What happened to NASA's Constellation moon base plans and the mission to Mars?
Oh, what? Too expensive you say? Google seems to be able to do it...
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I really hope that the Google X-prize helps humans return to the Moon for good !! So by the time my son is 21 or 26 ( 2020 or 2025) we have permanent Moonbase Alpha ! Since 1973?! It is way overdue time we left LEO !! Humans on the Moon and Mars all before 2030 !!
The only way to save the planet environmentally, and economically is to get man back onto the moon permanently. Any effort private, or otherwise, is commendable. Set arguments aside and listen to the merits of the plan to provide a solution to the worlds most pressing problems. Once the merits are made clear, I think anyone cannot avoid the importance of the moon in mans very near future.
You've obviously got your head so far up your ass you can't see daylight, my condolences, please realise that everything that you 'think' you know is wrong, and try again.
Got my head so far up my ass? Please, PLEASE show me where I'm wrong. Yeah, I'm sure we're going to build a bunch of fucking solar panels on the moon from this to send energy back to earth. I don't just "realize" everything I think is wrong when some asshole tells me to. You've got to show me how you think this shit is viable. What monetary incentive does any company have to put anything on the moon for the extreme cost? Why can't they put a man in orbit 50 years after the soviets did it?
"What monetary incentive does any company have to put anything on the moon for the extreme cost?"
Tourism, government financing, moon rocks (they are extremely expensive right now), etc. There is money to be made, if you can reduce costs enough. The whole point of the X-prize is to try to incite breakthroughs by getting lots of different groups to take a stab it at it utilizing lots of different ideas; collectively they end up spending a lot more than the prize is worth.
@thomasford "Why can't they put a man in orbit 50 years after the soviets did it?"
Virgin, the winner of the first X-prize, plans for Spaceship 3 to achieve orbital flight and I doubt Virgin is the only private company that will now be attempting to create a low Earth orbital vehicle; Obama's new plan for NASA in effect creates a vast new prize for a shuttle replacement, such that further X-prize incentives for the low Earth orbit arena are unnecessary.
You know, people probably read my comments here and think that I have something against privatized space exploration. I really honestly hope that you're right. Of all of the things I could be wrong about, this is one of two things that I would be really happy to be wrong about. But tourism as a profit motive for space sounds like b.s. to me. I seriously doubt that there's a huge market for that. Moon rocks? May be valuable, but are they valuable enough to fund a mission there for?
@thomasford Again, the whole point is making space operations cheaper so that they are commercially viable. The first X-prize was a true success, after 8 years.
That is auspicious, but it doesn't mean the other prizes will be successful as well; that has yet to be seen. I do consider them to be worth a shot though.
I also doubt that Obama's plan creates incentives. He talks a lot about it but doesn't say anything specific. Unsurprising if he isn't just saying nice things to placate certain people and this will just be the end of Americans in space for the foreseeable future. You doubt Virgin will be the only ones to do this? There's a reason we've only heard of them and a select few other on the news. This isn't like music or art. Launching a space vehicle is big news. No underground indie space launchers.
@thomasford "I also doubt that Obama's plan creates incentives."
Your apparently not thinking this through much. Obama's plan calls upon NASA to pay private companies for low Earth orbit launches; hence, there are billions of dollars at stake here. You don't think Boeing or anyone else will make a stab at getting that kind of money? As for why we haven't heard of it yet, Obama just announced this. Before it, the pot was far smaller.
I really hope you're right. And your position does make a lot of sense. I just know from experience that, if you go with the most pessimistic prediction in politics, it's most likely right. I do like your point about the pot being much smaller before. I guess nasa is still artificially increasing the push for space, which is good for the overall momentum. I'm just sort of bitter and scared that no purist movement for space really is in charge anymore. Free market is pretty short sighted.
@thomasford We've had tons of private satellites in orbit for a while now, launched into orbit by private rockets, so private industry is not entirely new to space, and thus far what it has done up there has been beneficial.
"Free market is pretty short sighted."
Good government gives the free market glasses. Unfortunately, even in Western Europe, this doesn't always happen to the extent it should. It's a challenge to strike the right balance, especially with special interests involved.
I'm well aware of the private satellite launches. I've had this exact same argument before. But I really don't see the connection. Everyone just thinks "satellites are in space, therefore private companies are on their way to going to the moon and putting people out there". But there is an obvious profit motive for putting satellites into space. There's a lot of money to be made when it comes to communications. What's the profit motive for putting people in orbit or anything on the moon?
Well that was primarily a response to your criticism of space operations becoming "impure".
Without drastic cost cuts, there seems to be little potential of equivalent profits being made beyond Earth orbit. With drastic cuts, mining and tourism may be practical.
Until then, things like moon operations are only a practical model so long as government money backs them up, in which case the ultimate goals would have mostly to do with prestige and development of capability, not wealth.
That is why venture capitalists fund these start ups despite the high failure rate.
The X-prize is in a way even more efficient because it entices a bunch of different start ups while only paying for one of them .
It is a lot different in the sense that it is a non-profit and isn't an investor because it doesn't gain any ownership. The whole point is to get something done, and as we have already said, the potential for large profits isn't always as clear.
@thomasford Its not about space tourism the end goal is space settlement. The simple question is if there are people willing to spend 20 million for a few days in space how many people do you think would be willing to spend 20 million for a permanet homes on a space station. If you think that's crazy talk your not aware of the numbers. Spacex is getting the price of launch down to near 2grand per kilo or 1 grand a pound. 1 million to get a person into orbit and 19 million per room on a sstation
I could literally use those exact same numbers against your argument. 1 million dollars to float around in low fucking orbit. I know what the end goal is. But companies don't do long term commitments. They would need a stepping stone. Space tourism is supposed to do this. But how fucking successful is a company that is selling millionaire rollercoaster rides going to be? Privatizing space will never work. There is no immediate business incentive and no market.
@thomasford the profit motive as you say. Is the moon & planets are rich in minerals and ores some of which are rare here. Also asteroids would be rich in metals. There be alot of money floating out there for those who have the determination to go out there and get it. Zero G also open up the possibilities for different manufactoring techniques which are impossible or diffucult within earths gravity.
Uh, there's something called a cost/benefit ratio. I promise you, shooting tons of metal and people and equipment at speeds faster than a bullet out of earth's gravity and millions of miles away and then back costs WAY more than some iron ore you might bring back.
@thomasford wow you really do think inside a small box.
I never said iron, There materials out there rare to earth is what I said. But hey whatever.
Also emerging technologies is reducing the cost of putting people/equipement in space. Plus if they perfect the space elvator concept & technologies required for that then we could ship people/materials into space for fraction of what it costs today. So your cost/benefit ration arguement requires us not to advance technologically to be valid
I would hardly call my argument flawed just because you have some far fetched ideas. And the space elevator is probably one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. I don't know how shit like that ever gets real intellectual support. And I think that you are vastly underestimating the cost of space travel, even at extremely optimistic, sci-fi levels of technology, vs. the benefit of mining ANY materials. And it's far too long term for any private company to reach for...
@thomasford wow you really are just a nay-sayer aint you.
No progess you say, oh wow I guess the fact the x-prize was won by launching a vehicle from a plane = no progress. Or the fact that the commerical sub orbital flights are due to start in next year or two once testing has finished = no progress. You have a funny definition of no progress.
Oh and a space evevator would save on massive fuel costs and could be used to supply massive amounts of energy = dumbest idea. Wow just wow
@thomasford " And I think that you are vastly underestimating the cost of space travel, even at extremely optimistic, sci-fi levels of technology, vs. the benefit of mining ANY materials. "
Current cost about $140k per pound to put into orbit. But a half kilometre asteroid has the potential to be worth $150 billion. A kilometre asteriod has potential to supply the world's steel demands for a year, gold/silver demands for a decade & platinum for a millenia. So ALOT of money up there.
@thomasford also sending materials back from mining asteroids/or the moon would only require little energy to break away from their repective gravity wells. Which could be acheived with a railgun design to provide kinetic energy to break away from the gravity of the object.
So the initial outlay is getting to the mineral and mining it and very little for sending back to earth. So also that part of your arguement is slightly flawed.
... because investors tend to like it when, you know, they get a return on their investment sometime in their own lifetime. I haven't been impressed with ANYTHING the private sector is putting out. They make shitty little fiberglass craft that they try to launch from airplanes and into suborbital high atmosphere flights. And they've been doing that shit for about a decade now with NO progress other than lots of rosy promises and vaporware.
@thomasford I'm just confused why you come to a video like this just to be so negative.
But hey your entitled to your opinion, I don't think its a very valid opinion & that you may have to change it in the next decade or so.
Oh and I do know the current costs of putting material in space but I also know they are trying to cut that cost all the time. I think you vastly underestimate what is achievable with the right intellectual support.
@thomasford Well since you are not impressed by anything the private sector done. SpaceX a private company put a capsale in orbit and retrieved it again last month, something only 3 governments have done so far. They also going start carrying up astronauts and supplys upto ISS in place of the space shuttle after it retired. So much for your no progress bullshit.
Oh, oh nevermind. You're that douchebag that was talking about free energy. Nevermind. Go right on believing your stupid shit. Doesn't bother me. Just thought I'd let you know you were a retard.
You're the douchebag that was insulting other peoples opinions, not me, plus you seem intelligent enough, why don't you do a lot more reading and tell me why we haven't been back to the moon, or have we.. hmmm, what do you really know, who was/is NASA comprised of mostly, google project paperclip & secret space and tell me that you trust what they're saying, don't buy the cover story 'cause that's all it is. BTW free energy is possible since the early 1900's.
Nice, really intelligent, why don't you go back to eating twinkies and playing videogames in your parents basement you Troll aspiring to be a shill, (look it up), have a great day, Peace and Love!
I know, I know. I'm becoming more and more troll like as the days go by. You want to know what causes it? Being weathered by the world. After a while, you get tired of explaining your position to people that it's not going to make a difference to anyways, so it's just easier to tell them to go die in a fire and all that jazz.
Oh, and this video sucks. Cheesy $5 stock "inspirational" music and terrible acting and dialog. "Would you look at that". Yeah. Alright. That didn't sound like shit at all.
A $32 million prize. They'll spend at least $50 million getting to there. That's a hell of a conservative estimate. I don't understand why everyone's getting so fucking excited about private space travel. You want to know how much progress the private sector has made on it's own (that is, not commissioned by nasa like lockhead or boeing?) not shit. They made a few fucking glorified high-altitude flights. Where's the monetary incentive for anything other than LEO for satellites?
What the hell are the private corporations going to do on the goddamn moon? There's nothing out there that is worth enough to make the trip there and back for. Companies don't make long term, 25+ year commitments with billions upon billions of dollars for things that we don't have any reason beyond speculation to believe will have a return. Space tourism? Give me a break. Just because nasa existed doesn't mean private industry couldn't have done this years ago. But they didn't. Hmm, wonder why?
Very nice and inspiring and all.. however, can the teams use forbidden power sources, (cold fusion, plasma, zero point energy), can they use non traditional ships, (saucers), and what's going to happen when they find all the ancient bases up there, is the public finally going to get to see what's really up there or still not....?
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OMG. I never have seen a more cheesy, marketing-lies-filled and unrealistic video *ever*. What a joke.
Did the let the marketing intern do that?
Oh, and by the way. Without NASA, ESA, RSA, etc, you would not be able to do anything of what you do. We all payed those "expensive" prototypes. So be thankful!
Silicon for solar panels? What about Helium 3 for cold fusion? The reactors already exist. We just need the fuel. It would be far more powerful than any solar technology and it's far more valuable.
We don't have the reactors because cold fusion doesn't work. Indeed, the US patent office has banned aplications of cold-fusion based technology, because the science just isn't there.
Even though, He3, and, indeed, Tritium, which is als believed to be found on the moon, is also seriously useful.
Oh, and quantumG, you really have introduced a new level of retard onto the internet. Shut up and go die in a hole.
You're thinking of regular fusion. Regular fusion releases a dangerous neutron for every hydrogen molecule in the reactor which causes severe damage to the reactor walls. However, cold fusion releases a harmless proton for every He3 molecule instead. There are cold fusion reactors out there. There is one in the Wisconsin Institute of Technology and there's one in the russian space program. Both work and are highly efficient. That's why the russians are so hellbent on getting back to the moon.
I watched the Apollo movies. Go to the comments page and I will show you what I have found.
The chit was the most expensive hoax ever perpetrated against mankind. You people need to take your heads from outta your azz and wake the fuck up already!
There is a simple explanation for "no stars." We can see stars and light thanks to the atmosphere; in outer-space you there is no atmosphere so "no stars."
Incorrect. The atmosphere actually makes it harder to see stars. During the day light diffraction makes it almost impossible, and at night stars are less luminescent than they would be outside of the atmosphere. That's why the Hubble space telescope is in space. The reason for no visible stars near earth and moon is the brightness of these bodies reflecting sunlight (and requiring reduced camera aperture settings). That's why Hubble looks away from the Earth/Moon to see dim deep space.
lol, no one else is using my account when im sitting right next to them "retard". sitting next to them means you are in their presence,..
if you arent arguing with me about the moon landings , the wtf are you arguing about?
all ive seen is a bunch of personal attacks and insults. Not once have you stated ANYTHING that is saying you do believe in the lunar landings... all you said is N.A.S.A is corrupt.. well nooo shit sherlock... look what happened when N.A.S.A silenced
the people in Mission Control who noticed the foam strike on Columbia.... They restructured N.A.S.A Project Management IMMEDIATELY,... that was 2004 , or do you not remember that in your hormone enraged, drug filled mind?
Oh thats right.... They did, didnt they? ... lol
grow up with your Terms Of Service crap kid... Do you HONESTLY think youtube would ban someone for letting their father make a comment or 2?
I'd hate to tell you that the "i worked @ morton-thiokol in Utah" remark was made by my 61 year old father who was here on vacation @ the time, and couldnt help but join in the fun of roasting someone who is so convinced that science is a lie. And hes not an engineer, hes a Retired Govt Contracting Sr. Bid Analyst. So , yes hes quite versed in Aerospace, and Communications Technologies.
trailer.. lol , you sure you arent the one who is "poor, and uneducated"..? since misery loves company...
RACIST as well as pedophile all in one, we sure picked a winner to roast here... LOL
DO NOT bring that petty racist bullshit your spewin out the side of your neck around me kid, Unlike you i have experienced rites of brotherhood with MANY men of other race, creed, and color...
you better be glad god is charitable, and hasnt smitten your ass down yet...
Nah, luckily my dad started working at thiokol after 87, lol.
Moved on to Kansas shortly after to work at Beechcraft, then on to New York to work @ Harris RF, then back to Texas to work @ Raytheon E-Systems. LOLOL.
wow, for someone who supposedly makes so much more money than i do, and is evidently more educated.... you sound like a scorned teenager.... good luck with that attitude and logic...
successful isnt living in mommys basement, or flipping burgers by the way.
GO tattoo your anarchy symbols in your forehead, and reject research....
NOT ALL OF NASA IS FUNDED BY THE CORRUPT AMERICAN GOVERNMENT... IDIOT..
in fact nasa is a bus driver, for the major corps. experiments.... PEON
Not all of Nasas funding is done by congress... there are private investors.
you have to remember, companies/universities build the experiments , and nasa is just the platform of transportation for those experiments to be deployed.
i agree that when it comes to today's NASA, but backin the 70's it was very different.
you may be right that NASA have private help, like subcontractors, but a lot of the budget is composed of taxmoney, so the nosey-ness of presidents, politician etc.
politcians still WANT the final say on a big project.
Very true, and honestly i wish there were better public involvement with space exploration policy, but no one cares about it, theyd rather drive their H3's and get a tan in a bed while watching MTV....
theres RIDICULOUS amounts of evidence we've been there. not to mention the fact that theres little box up there we shoot a laser @ 250 times a year. Once again,the media wont show you that, because you as an individual DEMAND more blood and gore.
(the box has a mirror on it, sending back the exact distance of the moon form the earth @ that point, it was our little insurance policy, in case someone came along and said. "NUH UH! you did'nt land on the moonzors" liek joo mudkipz /b/ watchers.)
im abit fussy that we got there anyway,its weird how it all got stopped.......if we got there then how come we didnt keep going.i would of thought just bieng a normal person we would of kept going cause thats how we are its nature (why would we stop ourselvs)there is loads of possabilties on the moon with silicone and then ice in the northen hemishere (dark side of the moon)to produce hydrogen as a rocket fuel with less gravity to earth or mars so take off and fuel wouldnt be a problem
Nixon lost to Kennedy in the 1960 election. The Moon program was started by Kennedy. Nixon was president when we finally reached the Moon. He cancelled the last 3 scheduled missions. Maybe he wanted his own program, like the War on Cancer.
Much of the public had lost interest anyway. They only get interested, for a little while, when there is something new, such as Skylab, the Shuttle, a Mars rover, a new Moon mission.
The "Salvage One" concept. How cool- takes me back to my childhood! Making space travel pay was always the key. Would love to believe it's possible...
I think that sort of thing is the Holy Grail of anybody's space programme, public or private... evidence of life elsewhere... although I think there are better candidates than the Moon.
I really would like less politics involved in NASA, it'd be so much more productive. There are so many people who would love to go on a one way mission to Mars or the Moon (pick me! pick me!). I'd love the government to not act so forcefully in what happens to NASA's budget and let it have a little "give" or stretch to it.
suicide mission? sorry we dont allow suicidal people in multi million dollar space craft and spend millions on their training, just for them to have a "change of heart" and waste our time and money.
i envy your spirit, but robotics is safer/cheaper.
Space race is back , and now I can be proud to be romanian , ARCA the romanian team will launch a rocket in 1 month , and it has the best chances of all to succed , I hope the european space agnecy will give romanian space agnecy more money , because romania has just recovert from comunism. If it won't be us , I hope another european team , spain , england or germany will win this , I really want to see those americans get beaten, they've become a bit to confident in their nasa.
We need to go back to the Moon first - besides it has resources, and is close to us. We'll always need to utilize the Moon in the way we'll always need both robotic and human spaceflight; utilization of lunar resources and a lunar outpost, and Martian exploration and colonization will complement each other.
LOL. Most teams will probably contract companies like SpaceX to launch their spacecraft, and they know what they're doing and are fully licensed by the FAA.
We haven't returned to the moon in 40 years. Japan has. China has. Who's next? Google? Why not! Nasa may touch down there in 10 years. We'll get to Mars, but master the moon first.
Earth is more important. King George Bush II killed climate satellites we need, (along with minor things like Liberty, Justice, Freedom and the American Way). Restore Earth science to Nasa!
The moon is a harsh mistress, but we will go because we can, because we must. One small step deserves another.
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This is so out of touch with reality it's humorous... don't get me wrong, I am happy that such a thing as the X Prize exists, but I think they're literally trying to reach too far this time.
The launch is easily within reach, all you need is a sponsor. SpaceX's trans-lunar injection missions cost around $47 million dollars. You put a spacecraft on top, equipped with a lander and a rover. Hard? Yes. Expensive? Perhaps. Impossible? Definitely not.
THIS world right here gives all of us more than enough opportunities to learn how to live in harmony with creation.
Those who claim our hope lies in the moon are just looking for yet another (rather transparent) excuse to destroy even more formerly untouched environments.
Silicone on the moon? -lol.
The plain sand in our deserts provides us with more raw material than we could transform into solar cells in centuries.
Who has no respect for creation HERE, won´t have it out in space, either.
Listen, The human race is dust if we dont get off this rock now. We are finally at the point where it is feasible to form offworld colonies. If there is a plague or nuclear exchange or comet collision in the next 50 years, we may never recover. Erecting offworld colonies is an insurance policy against extinction. And if that means we have to disturb a few lunar dunes, then by God lets do it.
Who's footing the fuel bill for this challenge, the participants themselves? Nobody's going to spend 180 million in fuel and R n D just to make Mack 30 mil this is retardeds.
PoofDuddy 5 days ago
Awesome!
blackplasty 1 week ago
they probably should've thrown the money they used for this video into the pot while they were at it, but I'm a little more optimistic: if this xprize pans out in the near future, say five years, there's a decent chance people will give up on NASA and we can finally scrap the damn thing. That would be something :D
ThePythagoran 7 months ago
$30M = pretty much free publicity for google. If you guys really want to stimulate private space exploration, you need to make it at least a few hundred million.
slackeriii2 7 months ago
@slackeriii2 actually, the smaller the amount the greater will be the chance of innovation that will drive down costs of such a program. It could ensure efficiency (cheaper) and thus a more sustainable re-landing for follow up missions
gudsaute 2 weeks ago
@gudsaute We're talking about a $30 million prize pool here, including 20 million for first place ... Efficiency and driving down costs is great and all, but 20 million dollars makes about as much difference as if there was no prize at all, considering this is aerospace research and development, the most expensive and complex endeavor people have pursued so far.
slackeriii2 1 week ago
tha lander is pretty simple to make, but who can make the rocket?
maxotromeros 7 months ago
@maxotromeros
Why use a rocket when you could use a solar powered rail gun?
It's not manned, yet.
Celebrindan 7 months ago
The Google Lunar X - the next UAC. The corporation that was responsible for dooming Mars and Earth.
howsnat 8 months ago
what a show. why didnt ya just get bubba to build a rover with camera's in his garage, find someone else for a decent but inexpensive lander, hitch a ride up from someone heading that way and just sling it towards the moon. we would have already been viewing the video's and pictures of the lunar landscape we dont have. this contest started in 2007 and doesnt get decided until 2015. how many years later then before you send it. i'll probably die of old age before it ever gets there
The5thAveMonster 9 months ago
I hope the Armadillo team wins, headed by the legendary game designer John Carmack!
zzzIdividedbyzerozzz 9 months ago
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This is so sad, the fact that most people rather blow each other up then work together to achieve the next level of human civilization, this should be called
"Human 2.0: The Moron struggle"
featheredmusic 10 months ago
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"Human 2.0: The struggle"
featheredmusic 10 months ago
This is so sad, the fact that most people rather blow each other up then work together to achieve the next level of human civilizations, this should be called
"Human 2.0: The struggle"
featheredmusic 10 months ago
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TETOYVIENDO 10 months ago
I thought capitalism, free market etc were so great.. how come they cannot land a useless crap to the moon?
A wait free market is a hoax. it is just socialism for the Rich.
kousoulides 11 months ago
I wish i had a sponsor. I could win that within 2 years
skinnywhop87 11 months ago
@skinnywhop87 Ha! I'm sure of it.
dragster178 8 months ago
Wow, I love Google! This is so cool! So inspirational!
I'd also like to add that I think it's quite sad to see NASA's funding being withheld. What happened to NASA's Constellation moon base plans and the mission to Mars?
Oh, what? Too expensive you say? Google seems to be able to do it...
ELM1941 11 months ago
Getting to moon. Heavy risk... but rhe PRIIIZE!
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lutherarao 1 year ago
I really hope that the Google X-prize helps humans return to the Moon for good !! So by the time my son is 21 or 26 ( 2020 or 2025) we have permanent Moonbase Alpha ! Since 1973?! It is way overdue time we left LEO !! Humans on the Moon and Mars all before 2030 !!
davisgreen2020 1 year ago
The only way to save the planet environmentally, and economically is to get man back onto the moon permanently. Any effort private, or otherwise, is commendable. Set arguments aside and listen to the merits of the plan to provide a solution to the worlds most pressing problems. Once the merits are made clear, I think anyone cannot avoid the importance of the moon in mans very near future.
moonus111 1 year ago
I'm so entering this competition!
anthonytheperson 1 year ago
Oh, I almost missed "it's gonna be a looong lunar night". Jesus Christ. This is like a parody.
thomasford 1 year ago
You've obviously got your head so far up your ass you can't see daylight, my condolences, please realise that everything that you 'think' you know is wrong, and try again.
cjsinclair 1 year ago
Got my head so far up my ass? Please, PLEASE show me where I'm wrong. Yeah, I'm sure we're going to build a bunch of fucking solar panels on the moon from this to send energy back to earth. I don't just "realize" everything I think is wrong when some asshole tells me to. You've got to show me how you think this shit is viable. What monetary incentive does any company have to put anything on the moon for the extreme cost? Why can't they put a man in orbit 50 years after the soviets did it?
thomasford 1 year ago
@thomasford
"What monetary incentive does any company have to put anything on the moon for the extreme cost?"
Tourism, government financing, moon rocks (they are extremely expensive right now), etc. There is money to be made, if you can reduce costs enough. The whole point of the X-prize is to try to incite breakthroughs by getting lots of different groups to take a stab it at it utilizing lots of different ideas; collectively they end up spending a lot more than the prize is worth.
wyjioc 1 year ago
@thomasford "Why can't they put a man in orbit 50 years after the soviets did it?"
Virgin, the winner of the first X-prize, plans for Spaceship 3 to achieve orbital flight and I doubt Virgin is the only private company that will now be attempting to create a low Earth orbital vehicle; Obama's new plan for NASA in effect creates a vast new prize for a shuttle replacement, such that further X-prize incentives for the low Earth orbit arena are unnecessary.
wyjioc 1 year ago
You know, people probably read my comments here and think that I have something against privatized space exploration. I really honestly hope that you're right. Of all of the things I could be wrong about, this is one of two things that I would be really happy to be wrong about. But tourism as a profit motive for space sounds like b.s. to me. I seriously doubt that there's a huge market for that. Moon rocks? May be valuable, but are they valuable enough to fund a mission there for?
thomasford 1 year ago
@thomasford Again, the whole point is making space operations cheaper so that they are commercially viable. The first X-prize was a true success, after 8 years.
That is auspicious, but it doesn't mean the other prizes will be successful as well; that has yet to be seen. I do consider them to be worth a shot though.
wyjioc 1 year ago
I also doubt that Obama's plan creates incentives. He talks a lot about it but doesn't say anything specific. Unsurprising if he isn't just saying nice things to placate certain people and this will just be the end of Americans in space for the foreseeable future. You doubt Virgin will be the only ones to do this? There's a reason we've only heard of them and a select few other on the news. This isn't like music or art. Launching a space vehicle is big news. No underground indie space launchers.
thomasford 1 year ago
@thomasford "I also doubt that Obama's plan creates incentives."
Your apparently not thinking this through much. Obama's plan calls upon NASA to pay private companies for low Earth orbit launches; hence, there are billions of dollars at stake here. You don't think Boeing or anyone else will make a stab at getting that kind of money? As for why we haven't heard of it yet, Obama just announced this. Before it, the pot was far smaller.
wyjioc 1 year ago
I really hope you're right. And your position does make a lot of sense. I just know from experience that, if you go with the most pessimistic prediction in politics, it's most likely right. I do like your point about the pot being much smaller before. I guess nasa is still artificially increasing the push for space, which is good for the overall momentum. I'm just sort of bitter and scared that no purist movement for space really is in charge anymore. Free market is pretty short sighted.
thomasford 1 year ago
@thomasford We've had tons of private satellites in orbit for a while now, launched into orbit by private rockets, so private industry is not entirely new to space, and thus far what it has done up there has been beneficial.
"Free market is pretty short sighted."
Good government gives the free market glasses. Unfortunately, even in Western Europe, this doesn't always happen to the extent it should. It's a challenge to strike the right balance, especially with special interests involved.
wyjioc 1 year ago
I'm well aware of the private satellite launches. I've had this exact same argument before. But I really don't see the connection. Everyone just thinks "satellites are in space, therefore private companies are on their way to going to the moon and putting people out there". But there is an obvious profit motive for putting satellites into space. There's a lot of money to be made when it comes to communications. What's the profit motive for putting people in orbit or anything on the moon?
thomasford 1 year ago
Well that was primarily a response to your criticism of space operations becoming "impure".
Without drastic cost cuts, there seems to be little potential of equivalent profits being made beyond Earth orbit. With drastic cuts, mining and tourism may be practical.
Until then, things like moon operations are only a practical model so long as government money backs them up, in which case the ultimate goals would have mostly to do with prestige and development of capability, not wealth.
wyjioc 1 year ago
That is why venture capitalists fund these start ups despite the high failure rate.
The X-prize is in a way even more efficient because it entices a bunch of different start ups while only paying for one of them .
It is a lot different in the sense that it is a non-profit and isn't an investor because it doesn't gain any ownership. The whole point is to get something done, and as we have already said, the potential for large profits isn't always as clear.
wyjioc 1 year ago
@thomasford Its not about space tourism the end goal is space settlement. The simple question is if there are people willing to spend 20 million for a few days in space how many people do you think would be willing to spend 20 million for a permanet homes on a space station. If you think that's crazy talk your not aware of the numbers. Spacex is getting the price of launch down to near 2grand per kilo or 1 grand a pound. 1 million to get a person into orbit and 19 million per room on a sstation
MikDonsen 1 year ago
@MikDonsen
I could literally use those exact same numbers against your argument. 1 million dollars to float around in low fucking orbit. I know what the end goal is. But companies don't do long term commitments. They would need a stepping stone. Space tourism is supposed to do this. But how fucking successful is a company that is selling millionaire rollercoaster rides going to be? Privatizing space will never work. There is no immediate business incentive and no market.
thomasford 1 year ago
@thomasford Privatization leads to innovation, innovation leads to better technology, better technology leads to better lifestyles.
I'm sure WW1, 2 & the Cold War agree with this statement
SniperViper1000 1 year ago
@thomasford oh and a response to a earlier statement you made.
>> But how fucking successful is a company that is selling millionaire rollercoaster rides going to be? <<
$50 million in already paid deposits sounds pretty successful for a product yet not available.
ScribeOfShadows 1 year ago
@thomasford the profit motive as you say. Is the moon & planets are rich in minerals and ores some of which are rare here. Also asteroids would be rich in metals. There be alot of money floating out there for those who have the determination to go out there and get it. Zero G also open up the possibilities for different manufactoring techniques which are impossible or diffucult within earths gravity.
ScribeOfShadows 1 year ago
@ScribeOfShadows
Uh, there's something called a cost/benefit ratio. I promise you, shooting tons of metal and people and equipment at speeds faster than a bullet out of earth's gravity and millions of miles away and then back costs WAY more than some iron ore you might bring back.
thomasford 1 year ago
@thomasford wow you really do think inside a small box.
I never said iron, There materials out there rare to earth is what I said. But hey whatever.
Also emerging technologies is reducing the cost of putting people/equipement in space. Plus if they perfect the space elvator concept & technologies required for that then we could ship people/materials into space for fraction of what it costs today. So your cost/benefit ration arguement requires us not to advance technologically to be valid
ScribeOfShadows 1 year ago
@ScribeOfShadows
I would hardly call my argument flawed just because you have some far fetched ideas. And the space elevator is probably one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. I don't know how shit like that ever gets real intellectual support. And I think that you are vastly underestimating the cost of space travel, even at extremely optimistic, sci-fi levels of technology, vs. the benefit of mining ANY materials. And it's far too long term for any private company to reach for...
thomasford 1 year ago
@thomasford wow you really are just a nay-sayer aint you.
No progess you say, oh wow I guess the fact the x-prize was won by launching a vehicle from a plane = no progress. Or the fact that the commerical sub orbital flights are due to start in next year or two once testing has finished = no progress. You have a funny definition of no progress.
Oh and a space evevator would save on massive fuel costs and could be used to supply massive amounts of energy = dumbest idea. Wow just wow
ScribeOfShadows 1 year ago
@thomasford " And I think that you are vastly underestimating the cost of space travel, even at extremely optimistic, sci-fi levels of technology, vs. the benefit of mining ANY materials. "
Current cost about $140k per pound to put into orbit. But a half kilometre asteroid has the potential to be worth $150 billion. A kilometre asteriod has potential to supply the world's steel demands for a year, gold/silver demands for a decade & platinum for a millenia. So ALOT of money up there.
ZombiesAteMyCats 1 year ago
@thomasford also sending materials back from mining asteroids/or the moon would only require little energy to break away from their repective gravity wells. Which could be acheived with a railgun design to provide kinetic energy to break away from the gravity of the object.
So the initial outlay is getting to the mineral and mining it and very little for sending back to earth. So also that part of your arguement is slightly flawed.
ScribeOfShadows 1 year ago
@ScribeOfShadows
... because investors tend to like it when, you know, they get a return on their investment sometime in their own lifetime. I haven't been impressed with ANYTHING the private sector is putting out. They make shitty little fiberglass craft that they try to launch from airplanes and into suborbital high atmosphere flights. And they've been doing that shit for about a decade now with NO progress other than lots of rosy promises and vaporware.
thomasford 1 year ago
@thomasford I'm just confused why you come to a video like this just to be so negative.
But hey your entitled to your opinion, I don't think its a very valid opinion & that you may have to change it in the next decade or so.
Oh and I do know the current costs of putting material in space but I also know they are trying to cut that cost all the time. I think you vastly underestimate what is achievable with the right intellectual support.
ScribeOfShadows 1 year ago
@thomasford Well since you are not impressed by anything the private sector done. SpaceX a private company put a capsale in orbit and retrieved it again last month, something only 3 governments have done so far. They also going start carrying up astronauts and supplys upto ISS in place of the space shuttle after it retired. So much for your no progress bullshit.
ScribeOfShadows 1 year ago
Oh, oh nevermind. You're that douchebag that was talking about free energy. Nevermind. Go right on believing your stupid shit. Doesn't bother me. Just thought I'd let you know you were a retard.
thomasford 1 year ago
You're the douchebag that was insulting other peoples opinions, not me, plus you seem intelligent enough, why don't you do a lot more reading and tell me why we haven't been back to the moon, or have we.. hmmm, what do you really know, who was/is NASA comprised of mostly, google project paperclip & secret space and tell me that you trust what they're saying, don't buy the cover story 'cause that's all it is. BTW free energy is possible since the early 1900's.
cjsinclair 1 year ago
Fuck off.
thomasford 1 year ago
Nice, really intelligent, why don't you go back to eating twinkies and playing videogames in your parents basement you Troll aspiring to be a shill, (look it up), have a great day, Peace and Love!
cjsinclair 1 year ago
I know, I know. I'm becoming more and more troll like as the days go by. You want to know what causes it? Being weathered by the world. After a while, you get tired of explaining your position to people that it's not going to make a difference to anyways, so it's just easier to tell them to go die in a fire and all that jazz.
thomasford 1 year ago
Oh, and this video sucks. Cheesy $5 stock "inspirational" music and terrible acting and dialog. "Would you look at that". Yeah. Alright. That didn't sound like shit at all.
thomasford 1 year ago
A $32 million prize. They'll spend at least $50 million getting to there. That's a hell of a conservative estimate. I don't understand why everyone's getting so fucking excited about private space travel. You want to know how much progress the private sector has made on it's own (that is, not commissioned by nasa like lockhead or boeing?) not shit. They made a few fucking glorified high-altitude flights. Where's the monetary incentive for anything other than LEO for satellites?
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thomasford 1 year ago
What the hell are the private corporations going to do on the goddamn moon? There's nothing out there that is worth enough to make the trip there and back for. Companies don't make long term, 25+ year commitments with billions upon billions of dollars for things that we don't have any reason beyond speculation to believe will have a return. Space tourism? Give me a break. Just because nasa existed doesn't mean private industry couldn't have done this years ago. But they didn't. Hmm, wonder why?
thomasford 1 year ago
@thomasford There's lots of water and minerals you fucking retard.
Ever head the analogy "Don't judge a book by it's cover?"
Yeah, well guess what!? IT'S TRUE!
SniperViper1000 1 year ago
Argentina tiene que intentarlo, privado o no por que aca muchos ricos que yo sepa no hay
pero argentina lo tiene que al menos intentar
TheWilsonChannel 2 years ago
Very nice and inspiring and all.. however, can the teams use forbidden power sources, (cold fusion, plasma, zero point energy), can they use non traditional ships, (saucers), and what's going to happen when they find all the ancient bases up there, is the public finally going to get to see what's really up there or still not....?
cjsinclair 2 years ago
God you're fucking stupid.
thomasford 1 year ago
I would like to see a return to the moon based on science (as indeed Apollos 13 and onward essentially were), and not a rivalry between countries.
youvebeenthunderstru 2 years ago
I hope that this X Prize will change the world just the the others.
mrmaciejm 2 years ago 2
Revolution through a fair and educated competition...
superisraisu 2 years ago 13
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fuck you google ! You are controled by the greyes and the illuminati satans worshiper ! wake up people join the real revolution america is invaded
by extraterrestial those are the ones that have high technologie and our goverments are kissing there ars !
sexydollsbbb9 2 years ago
lollolol
people like you are so fucking funny!
n1bigdaddy 2 years ago
great
valarua 2 years ago 4
great
HIP2BSQRE 2 years ago 3
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OMG. I never have seen a more cheesy, marketing-lies-filled and unrealistic video *ever*. What a joke.
Did the let the marketing intern do that?
Oh, and by the way. Without NASA, ESA, RSA, etc, you would not be able to do anything of what you do. We all payed those "expensive" prototypes. So be thankful!
Evi1M4chine 2 years ago
Silicon for solar panels? What about Helium 3 for cold fusion? The reactors already exist. We just need the fuel. It would be far more powerful than any solar technology and it's far more valuable.
sniper6081 2 years ago
We don't have the reactors because cold fusion doesn't work. Indeed, the US patent office has banned aplications of cold-fusion based technology, because the science just isn't there.
Even though, He3, and, indeed, Tritium, which is als believed to be found on the moon, is also seriously useful.
Oh, and quantumG, you really have introduced a new level of retard onto the internet. Shut up and go die in a hole.
Roriniho 2 years ago
You're thinking of regular fusion. Regular fusion releases a dangerous neutron for every hydrogen molecule in the reactor which causes severe damage to the reactor walls. However, cold fusion releases a harmless proton for every He3 molecule instead. There are cold fusion reactors out there. There is one in the Wisconsin Institute of Technology and there's one in the russian space program. Both work and are highly efficient. That's why the russians are so hellbent on getting back to the moon.
sniper6081 2 years ago
Heh, I remember this video. It's about as realistic as the prize.
1. Interest in launch watching goes up 100,000%
2. The rocket is so damn fast that it can get the lander to the Moon in seconds.
3. Doesn't even need a stage to enter lunar orbit.
4. The lander doesn't even have a main engine.. apparently RCS is all you need to land on the Moon now.
5. Uplink antennas only need to be the size of your typical hand held umbrella.
6. The rover doesn't need to fit in the lander.
quantumG 2 years ago
7. It doesn't even need an antenna.
8. Rutan is great, all hail SpaceShipOne. The reusable, reliable, less expensive revolution is here! It's so reusable it never flew again.
9. "The competition ignited a revolution that will launch thousands of civilian passengers into space." Any day now.
10. "The Moon.. only days away" .. way to point out your own spin-doctoring, see point 2.
quantumG 2 years ago
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Holy fucking crap that was a LOT of propiganda BS in one vid... WTF google, eat shit and die, stop fucking with shit.
420orion727 2 years ago
Breaking news!
90% of youtube users are retarded.
Great job on the prize guys, good to have hope for the future.
MiXA 2 years ago 22
boosh! what if you just build a giant gun and shoot the moon? thatd be easier, but would it count?
UFOMAN618 2 years ago
...........why dont they just say what they mean? man i think my brain exploded..........in one ear and out the other
starXfoxXshuriken 2 years ago
Ugh.
This video is horribly sacharine and these comments are idiotic (as always).
Oh well, at least the competitions a good idea.
Boyinabox 2 years ago
Right. I love gimcrackery.
Moratorium 2 years ago
I am actually attracted to disney and spielberg movies.
Moratorium 2 years ago
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What a big pile of shit this video is ....
HK379 2 years ago
giant
UFOMAN618 2 years ago
Google bought out Youtube and has been censoring highly informative FYI stuff on Youtube eve since.
They are all in cohootch together!
So now, corporate thugs are going to use Google to stage another hoax.
The hoax will be to convince us that men "really" went to the fucking Moon.
fanbutton 3 years ago
Show some proof of this if you want to be taken seriously. If not, STFU.
highlander2107 2 years ago
(1) Moon anomolies and inconsistencies:
1. no stars
2. flag waving
3. no blast crater from lander
4. no concentric sun spokes in lunar astronauts visor
5. no visible exhaust from LM
6. inconsistent shadows on the moon
7. astronauts coached to say talk when prompted
fanbutton 2 years ago
(2) Moon anomolies and inconsistencies:
8. 11 astronauts die within months of one another
9. how could they survive deadly radiation
10. lighting hot spots on the moon
11. indentical backgrounds in different images
12. camera cross hairs behind the images
13. astronauts refuse lie detector test
14. Grissom's son cites sabatoge
15. Government investigator and his family killed and his report disappears
16. Astronauts only able to do one foot leaps and bounds.
fanbutton 2 years ago
I don't want to see no lander as proof. Show me the foot prints.
I want to see FOOT PRINTS OF SOMEONE WALKING ON THE FUCKING MOON!!!!!!!!
fanbutton 3 years ago
Watch the Apollo videos then.
joshatkins94 2 years ago
I watched the Apollo movies. Go to the comments page and I will show you what I have found.
The chit was the most expensive hoax ever perpetrated against mankind. You people need to take your heads from outta your azz and wake the fuck up already!
fanbutton 2 years ago
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Shut up already, fool.
curea229 2 years ago
curea229, is that all you got?!!! Calling someone a fool hardly qualifies as a valid argument for establishing facts and evidence.
By calling me a fool, the only thing that you have managed to do is to take credence away from whatever silly argument you are trying to make.
Now continue isolating yourself in your grandma's basement.
fanbutton 2 years ago
Hey genius, check out this shuttle pic with "crosshairs behind image" and "no stars."
Google "space-shuttle-challenger.jpg"
So the shuttle must be faked in a studio too, and the Challenger and Columbia mishaps were NASA sabotage.
I just wasted too much time on this crap, sorry got better things to do. Suggest you go get an education or something.
curea229 2 years ago
There is a simple explanation for "no stars." We can see stars and light thanks to the atmosphere; in outer-space you there is no atmosphere so "no stars."
flaviny 2 years ago
Incorrect. The atmosphere actually makes it harder to see stars. During the day light diffraction makes it almost impossible, and at night stars are less luminescent than they would be outside of the atmosphere. That's why the Hubble space telescope is in space. The reason for no visible stars near earth and moon is the brightness of these bodies reflecting sunlight (and requiring reduced camera aperture settings). That's why Hubble looks away from the Earth/Moon to see dim deep space.
curea229 2 years ago
Im done commenting on this video.. its been 2 weeks youve been luring me back here to defend myself.
one day you will realize that man went to the moon, and yes money is the root of all errors...
so, i wish you a merry xmas, and hope for the new year.
you can please some of the people some of the time, buy you cannot please all of the people all of the time.
god bless.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
blah blah blah, grow up...
say something with some substance besides "sterilize your children"....
that has to be the WORST comeback EVER ...
almost as pathetic as you spouting this crap about YT's ToS, and trailer this , and conspiracy that....
grow up bro, and ppl might respect your comments more....
MrFireAss 3 years ago
lol, no one else is using my account when im sitting right next to them "retard". sitting next to them means you are in their presence,..
if you arent arguing with me about the moon landings , the wtf are you arguing about?
all ive seen is a bunch of personal attacks and insults. Not once have you stated ANYTHING that is saying you do believe in the lunar landings... all you said is N.A.S.A is corrupt.. well nooo shit sherlock... look what happened when N.A.S.A silenced
cont.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
cont.
the people in Mission Control who noticed the foam strike on Columbia.... They restructured N.A.S.A Project Management IMMEDIATELY,... that was 2004 , or do you not remember that in your hormone enraged, drug filled mind?
Oh thats right.... They did, didnt they? ... lol
grow up with your Terms Of Service crap kid... Do you HONESTLY think youtube would ban someone for letting their father make a comment or 2?
once again, you are sadly mistaken.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
youre about as intelligent as you are informed.
nowhere does it say in youtubes terms of agreement, that you cant let your father type a comment or 2 in your presence..
nice try.. are we getting mad that we have NO evidence to the contrary of man being on the moon?
poor poor child, one day you will be able to afford a ticket to a space museum.
maybe ill sell my "trailer" to help fund your trip/education... LMAO.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
I'd hate to tell you that the "i worked @ morton-thiokol in Utah" remark was made by my 61 year old father who was here on vacation @ the time, and couldnt help but join in the fun of roasting someone who is so convinced that science is a lie. And hes not an engineer, hes a Retired Govt Contracting Sr. Bid Analyst. So , yes hes quite versed in Aerospace, and Communications Technologies.
trailer.. lol , you sure you arent the one who is "poor, and uneducated"..? since misery loves company...
MrFireAss 3 years ago
never bought a car or built a home huh?
MrFireAss 3 years ago
nah, its called desires of the flesh, and i try to avoid them, you should try it out sometime.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
RACIST as well as pedophile all in one, we sure picked a winner to roast here... LOL
DO NOT bring that petty racist bullshit your spewin out the side of your neck around me kid, Unlike you i have experienced rites of brotherhood with MANY men of other race, creed, and color...
you better be glad god is charitable, and hasnt smitten your ass down yet...
im done with ya.. i dont deal with racists.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
so full of hate and angst, pony up with your real age, cuz you act like a pissed off teenager on a friday night with no friends.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
not even the law.. huh?
MrFireAss 3 years ago
Lol? wtf, you must be in high-school still i take it?
MrFireAss 3 years ago
Sick pedo... i hope they arrest you.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
LOL? what the hell? ritalin works....
MrFireAss 3 years ago
what was the argument again? i forget?
MrFireAss 3 years ago
dont pull any more frakked up explanation
pedo is fucking someone below 18.
thats still child abuse.
nakazatoGTR 3 years ago
exact same as your message pedo.
nakazatoGTR 3 years ago
whats with the profanity?
how would your profanity prove your theories?
nakazatoGTR 3 years ago 2
Under-education + severe Napoleonic tendencies.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
so a small typo and MFA's age shrinks by ten years?
would my grandma be ever so happy about getting younger !!! lololol
nakazatoGTR 3 years ago
yep, call the Waaahmbulance i pooped myself.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
you cant even provide any-frakking-substantial proof for your frak-theories.
it is sad, its you who's in the looking glass.
go back to your mommy emo boy.
nakazatoGTR 3 years ago
LOLOL
MrFireAss 3 years ago
well i know something: you have been commented as child molesting pedo by some user named LiberalDemocrat83
i dunnno what you "PULLED", but i dont think it is good..
adios Anti-Science Conspiracy Theorist(ASCOT)
nakazatoGTR 3 years ago
lmao sorry son, im not a democrat.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
haha legion got FRAKKED!! ahahalolol.
legion, YOU go back to highschool and stop watching vannessa anne in HSmusical on disney..
lol
why does disney pump more and more immoral, unlawful, dirty young women?
nakazatoGTR 3 years ago 2
missed a pimple there, Mr.Conspiracy theorist...
i bet you believe Bart Sibrels crap about the moon landings being staged....
go back to school.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
its Elude.....
mr 18 year old grammar policeman
MrFireAss 3 years ago
guess he has school in the morning.... good thing i dont.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
p.s. i have children , watch my videos on my channel..
MrFireAss 3 years ago
I NEVER ONCE SAID NASA WAS FUNDED BY PRIVATE INVESTORS.... THEY GET THEIR MONEY FROM CONGRESS SON... DONT PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH...
I said the Experiments were privately funded....
NASA just shoots the experiments into space... the private investors BUILD those experiments...
nice way to show your age with insults too by the way...
momma and daddy not hug you enough as a child?
MrFireAss 3 years ago
I have personally worked for Morton-Thiokol Aerospace, in Utah, and helped build the solid rocket boosters for the space shuttle.
so no.... i dont know shit about nasa..
Oh, i also am an AVID Johnson Space Center visitor/committee member...
worked for Harris RF corps that make the satellite comm links...
Worked for Raytheon Developing S.O.P.H.I.A..
no i dont know aerospace.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
N thiokol?
frak man, so you know what happened about the OV-99 complaint by one of your engineers? it was a real trouble time eh?
o-rings and stuff.
nakazatoGTR 3 years ago
Nah, luckily my dad started working at thiokol after 87, lol.
Moved on to Kansas shortly after to work at Beechcraft, then on to New York to work @ Harris RF, then back to Texas to work @ Raytheon E-Systems. LOLOL.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
Spell? i have no problem with spelling at all.. why dont you use your spell checker.
immature no, standing up for NASA, and defending them against blatant teenage rebels without a clue... yes..
GROW UP SON, and read a book... T.V. and P.C. dont teach you ANYTHING.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
Little? lol go pop that pimple Mr. 18 year old raging hormone.....
i have jeans older than you.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
wow, for someone who supposedly makes so much more money than i do, and is evidently more educated.... you sound like a scorned teenager.... good luck with that attitude and logic...
successful isnt living in mommys basement, or flipping burgers by the way.
GO tattoo your anarchy symbols in your forehead, and reject research....
NOT ALL OF NASA IS FUNDED BY THE CORRUPT AMERICAN GOVERNMENT... IDIOT..
in fact nasa is a bus driver, for the major corps. experiments.... PEON
MrFireAss 3 years ago
who is "they" and what is it "they " "pull"
i didnt say i had faith in government, but i DID say i have faith in mankind...
p.s. aliens killed Kennedy from the UT clocl tower, while the astronauts bombed the twin towers...
go watch more conspiracy videos, so i can get my daily entertainment from peons like yourself.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
MFA, this legion kid has not posted anything subsatantial eh?
i've dealt with these little children before.
so expect comments with th phrases:
'i bet nasa gave you subsidies'
'i bet you are government attack dog'
ask them for proof, they go away : POOF!
nakazatoGTR 3 years ago
this is true for some, but not all, that is why we have checks and balances....
MrFireAss 3 years ago
Life is cool!
EMTsoda 3 years ago 3
NASA is plagued AS a government AGENCY.
not a private agency.
so, NASA's projects are always influenced by government never ending change of mind, priority, funding and everything.
nakazatoGTR 3 years ago
Not all of Nasas funding is done by congress... there are private investors.
you have to remember, companies/universities build the experiments , and nasa is just the platform of transportation for those experiments to be deployed.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
i agree that when it comes to today's NASA, but backin the 70's it was very different.
you may be right that NASA have private help, like subcontractors, but a lot of the budget is composed of taxmoney, so the nosey-ness of presidents, politician etc.
politcians still WANT the final say on a big project.
nakazatoGTR 3 years ago
Very true, and honestly i wish there were better public involvement with space exploration policy, but no one cares about it, theyd rather drive their H3's and get a tan in a bed while watching MTV....
sad but true.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
theres RIDICULOUS amounts of evidence we've been there. not to mention the fact that theres little box up there we shoot a laser @ 250 times a year. Once again,the media wont show you that, because you as an individual DEMAND more blood and gore.
(the box has a mirror on it, sending back the exact distance of the moon form the earth @ that point, it was our little insurance policy, in case someone came along and said. "NUH UH! you did'nt land on the moonzors" liek joo mudkipz /b/ watchers.)
MrFireAss 3 years ago
im abit fussy that we got there anyway,its weird how it all got stopped.......if we got there then how come we didnt keep going.i would of thought just bieng a normal person we would of kept going cause thats how we are its nature (why would we stop ourselvs)there is loads of possabilties on the moon with silicone and then ice in the northen hemishere (dark side of the moon)to produce hydrogen as a rocket fuel with less gravity to earth or mars so take off and fuel wouldnt be a problem
deadlyvicar 3 years ago
Nixon lost to Kennedy in the 1960 election. The Moon program was started by Kennedy. Nixon was president when we finally reached the Moon. He cancelled the last 3 scheduled missions. Maybe he wanted his own program, like the War on Cancer.
Much of the public had lost interest anyway. They only get interested, for a little while, when there is something new, such as Skylab, the Shuttle, a Mars rover, a new Moon mission.
MoreApathy 3 years ago 2
The "Salvage One" concept. How cool- takes me back to my childhood! Making space travel pay was always the key. Would love to believe it's possible...
videowilliams 3 years ago
yeah, watch them find structures on the moon when they go back. Structures thats not ours.
JLZ808 3 years ago
I think that sort of thing is the Holy Grail of anybody's space programme, public or private... evidence of life elsewhere... although I think there are better candidates than the Moon.
videowilliams 3 years ago
Hey, it mean NASA don't have the technic to land on the moon?
tunderman66 3 years ago
NASA doesn't have any funding to land on the moon at the current time.
reevesAstronomy 3 years ago
not in the next 10 years. when ares-orion flies.
nakazatoGTR 3 years ago
I really would like less politics involved in NASA, it'd be so much more productive. There are so many people who would love to go on a one way mission to Mars or the Moon (pick me! pick me!). I'd love the government to not act so forcefully in what happens to NASA's budget and let it have a little "give" or stretch to it.
reevesAstronomy 3 years ago
suicide mission? sorry we dont allow suicidal people in multi million dollar space craft and spend millions on their training, just for them to have a "change of heart" and waste our time and money.
i envy your spirit, but robotics is safer/cheaper.
MrFireAss 3 years ago
Who lied to you?
MrFireAss 3 years ago
very cool
watchtheskies 3 years ago
Cool. Can I enter? I built a rocket that flies to 4,000 feet and mach 1... Boy. Now that I think about it that seems puny.
DTHRocket 3 years ago
i wonder how Zimbawee and Haiti will do.hahah
blazerblast 3 years ago
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gaetanomarano 3 years ago
Space race is back , and now I can be proud to be romanian , ARCA the romanian team will launch a rocket in 1 month , and it has the best chances of all to succed , I hope the european space agnecy will give romanian space agnecy more money , because romania has just recovert from comunism. If it won't be us , I hope another european team , spain , england or germany will win this , I really want to see those americans get beaten, they've become a bit to confident in their nasa.
tigerpanzer1944 3 years ago
Wow. This video made me cry. It is such an amazing vision. Just to see what could be possible.
DavyCrocket2003 3 years ago 4
I love this project already. The X-Prize is ingenious.
ehasl 3 years ago 2
Screw the stupid Moon. It's nothing but a dead rock. I demand Mars! Mars is the Human race's best hope.
Naxwell 3 years ago
We need to go back to the Moon first - besides it has resources, and is close to us. We'll always need to utilize the Moon in the way we'll always need both robotic and human spaceflight; utilization of lunar resources and a lunar outpost, and Martian exploration and colonization will complement each other.
joshatkins94 3 years ago
The U.S. government will love the idea of private citizens shooting guided rockets into the sky.
grimace2525 3 years ago 2
LOL. Most teams will probably contract companies like SpaceX to launch their spacecraft, and they know what they're doing and are fully licensed by the FAA.
joshatkins94 3 years ago
We haven't returned to the moon in 40 years. Japan has. China has. Who's next? Google? Why not! Nasa may touch down there in 10 years. We'll get to Mars, but master the moon first.
Earth is more important. King George Bush II killed climate satellites we need, (along with minor things like Liberty, Justice, Freedom and the American Way). Restore Earth science to Nasa!
The moon is a harsh mistress, but we will go because we can, because we must. One small step deserves another.
astromancyyz 3 years ago
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This is so out of touch with reality it's humorous... don't get me wrong, I am happy that such a thing as the X Prize exists, but I think they're literally trying to reach too far this time.
x19guy 3 years ago
The launch is easily within reach, all you need is a sponsor. SpaceX's trans-lunar injection missions cost around $47 million dollars. You put a spacecraft on top, equipped with a lander and a rover. Hard? Yes. Expensive? Perhaps. Impossible? Definitely not.
joshatkins94 3 years ago
THIS world right here gives all of us more than enough opportunities to learn how to live in harmony with creation.
Those who claim our hope lies in the moon are just looking for yet another (rather transparent) excuse to destroy even more formerly untouched environments.
Silicone on the moon? -lol.
The plain sand in our deserts provides us with more raw material than we could transform into solar cells in centuries.
Who has no respect for creation HERE, won´t have it out in space, either.
flyingmagiccarpet 3 years ago
Listen, The human race is dust if we dont get off this rock now. We are finally at the point where it is feasible to form offworld colonies. If there is a plague or nuclear exchange or comet collision in the next 50 years, we may never recover. Erecting offworld colonies is an insurance policy against extinction. And if that means we have to disturb a few lunar dunes, then by God lets do it.
Naxwell 3 years ago 5
I want to be there when it happens.
pocarea51 3 years ago
You will be, don't worry.
joshatkins94 3 years ago