Life in future (think about it NAO!!!)

ReconToaster wrote:Why is everyone so sensitive about being related to Catholicism?

cuz we don't even believe the same stuff. (well, maybe... I'm not sure what catholics believe nowadays, but when we broke off from them it was different)

ReconToaster wrote:

qwerty wrote:[sarcasm]Thank you for completely ignoring my posts.[/sarcasm]

Bitch, I was posting while you were posting!

Yes, swearing at me is definetly going to make me see your point of view.

capn qwerty wrote:

ReconToaster wrote:

qwerty wrote:[sarcasm]Thank you for completely ignoring my posts.[/sarcasm]

Bitch, I was posting while you were posting!

Yes, swearing at me is definetly going to make me see your point of view.

FUCK YEAH IT WILL!

capn qwerty wrote:

ReconToaster wrote:

qwerty wrote:[sarcasm]Thank you for completely ignoring my posts.[/sarcasm]

Bitch, I was posting while you were posting!

Yes, swearing at me is definetly going to make me see your point of view.

I suppose replying to someone's sarcastic comment with sarcasm just doesn't work these days...

And replying to someones sarcastic response to sarcasm with sarcasm doesn't work either ;)

*thinks the argument might need to stop before ending a good thread idea*

capn qwerty wrote:And replying to someones sarcastic response to sarcasm with sarcasm doesn't work either ;)

And trying to cover up a serious remark by claiming it to be sarcasm is a flawed technique as well ;)

ReconToaster wrote:

capn qwerty wrote:And replying to someones sarcastic response to sarcasm with sarcasm doesn't work either ;)

And trying to cover up a serious remark by claiming it to be sarcasm is a flawed technique as well ;)

And trying to shove an apple up a rhino's ass, yeah, definitely not a good idea ;)

Onyx is right. We should stop before this gets to far gone (pie).

PiEdude wrote:
And trying to shove an apple up a rhino's ass, yeah, definitely not a good idea ;)

unless....


the rhino is tranquilized

capn qwerty wrote:Onyx is right. We should stop before this gets to far gone (pie).

Agreed. I'm done

ReconToaster wrote: NASA gets shit done and these private companies never do.

lolol who tells you that? The private companies are advancing far faster than NASA ever did.

In case you forgot, most private companies get funding through the X-Prize which is a competition. Meaning they're COMPETING for the money. They spend a LOT before even getting anything, and only one can win. this system is far superior to NASA getting a bunch of money (far more than those companies) and spending it all before producing any results.

What saddens me is that we have the tech to build a spaceship that could take us to pluto in a matter of hours at 10% the speed of light. We just don'r want to spend the money.

Project Orion

I don't see how space travel (besides orbital) could really benefit us until we invent a device that can bring us to other systems. Colonizable planets are more rare than you think, there are none that we can truly benefit from within our solar system.

Perhaps we could spend a hundred years terraforming mars so it could support a small ecosystem, and maybe mining of metals from other planets and asteroids, but there isn't much worth the resources involved in manned space flight. The only real use of manned space flight to other planets is just to say, "Hey look, we've been here." As far as I'm concerned we have a lot more pressing issues than that.

Well, the moon would be a good orbital weapons platform. Of course, if it goes the way it usualy does with space based weapons in sci-fi...

but the moon spins, and so does the earth


so anything placed on the moon will only have a percentage chance of actually being aligned enough to fire it at whatever it is you wish to fire at.

you could make it extend it orbit positions by stategically placing rocket propelled engines to held with orbit...

Lord Pheonix wrote:but the moon spins, and so does the earth

except...




the moon's rotation is synced with it's orbit


that's why the same side of the moon is always pointed at the earth

so only the earth's rotation would be a problem.

There isn't much of an advantage with weapon systems on the moon, since we could put the same systems in orbit much easier. Of course it would be much harder for missiles to reach it, but it would be just as hard to get it's missiles to reach the Earth.(and hit accurately)

It honestly is not very useful.

By the time we would even be able to attempt such a thing as a lunar-based weapons platform, I would hope we would have something better than missiles and rockets.