Yeah you said if there’s NO water there it’s easier. No big deal.

Electrolysis.

No, we can sustain life on the moon if there IS water there. That way we don’t have to transport it from Earth, which is crazy expensive. You can also break water into hydrogen to use as fuel.

I guess they assume Ukraine will win (which I hope for) if they’re thinking they can wait years.

You are my science bitch, science me baby…

Bastards…

You should watch The Big Red One starring Lee Marvin with Mark Hamill in a small role.

The invention of television is so interesting, there were teams all over the world doing experiments and there were many hits and misses, even back to the 1800s. Brilliance + perseverance.

I wish I was a billionaire so I could build a nice lair there. Put in some accommodations for my henchmen and good to go!

I think I learned this in school when I was pretty young.

What language is it written in?

We have some amazing ones in Sydney Harbour.

Sounds like my grandma.

Boy that’s a hard question. First Man is an absolutely brilliant read about Neil Armstrong. It’s great because it’s not all about nuts and bolts but gets into the state of the world at the time, how people think about space travel, their motivations for wanting to do it, the complexity and difficulty of doing it, and of course what in my view one of the bravest men ever ticks. There’s a million sources that’ll help you understand the engineering and science, but space travel is deeper than that.

To answer your question and not drift off into tangents, yes it’s possible. It comes down to how many reliable rockets are made. There’s no technical reason why not, we have the ability. We need to able to prove long term life support far from Earth and being able to reliably and safely land. A mission to Mars will require many layers of redundancy, because Mars is a long way away, the mission won’t be able to call for help or spare parts. Once we land on the Moon and prove out systems and gear it will become clearer how soon we can go to Mars.

I just wanted to read through the comments to see how many before someone tried to turn the conversation around to Elon Musk.

I’m actually thinking about moving to Bowen, just a few kms from the launch site.

Yeah I can’t even fathom 1 million years. I suppose I can rationalise it as 500 times the amount of years since Jesus was crucified. But then to multiply that by 230 loses all meaning.

It seems weird talking about something cosmological and it’s only 20 twenty something. I mean it’s a number you can actual wrap your head around. Everything else in the universe is just mind-boggling.

I guess that’s why I like some of my favourite YouTubers who cover some of the smaller launch providers like Tim Dodd and Marcus House.

I feel like Japan is always the quiet achiever in space. It’s always “Japan launched X, Japan provided Y” without any particular fanfare. They do a great job.

What struck me just watching was the sets, the attention to detail was incredible. They actually built the Command Module and LM on the Vomit Comet and all the weightless scenes were actual weightless scenes.

I’ve read the book several times, and the movie was pretty good, especially the music for the landing, it was so intense. I thought it focused a bit too much on Neil’s loss and so it was kind of depressing. Whilst Armstrong was deeply affected by the loss of his daughter and Ed White and other pilots, he was generally a very intense person but also really fun and goofy. A humble man, who was intensely focused on getting a job done right, and he loooved aircraft. He was universally well loved by almost everyone, a truly great man.

I’m actually watching Apollo 13 right now and it’s up there, at least the science is correct. Movies like Gravity make me laugh.