Every day the moon gets 0.0037 millimeters further away from your front door, so it's good they finally got an act together and took it on the road.

Ralph Kramden would be pleased.

“One of these days, Alice, ‘POW’, to the moon!”

—-words to live by, or more properly, words by which to live

If Ralph would have actually done that, Alice would have been thee first person and woman on the moon.....long before Apollo 11 in 1969.

lol @ exmos who think going to 'the moon' is even a thing ~



just lol ~

Thanks for the link.

That thing was *moving* as it lifted up from the launch pad. It's a very powerful rocket!

Nothing in the Universe is standing still . . .

Heavy, huh?


Would it even be possible to figure out how to cancel all the different motions one was subject to, so as to be "motionless" in space?  And even then, all the atoms that compose 'you' and whatever you're wearing, would be in motion...

Wow!  Double heavy!!


Has there ever been an electron, a neutron, or a photon that 'stood still'?

This is so heavy that I've just broken all my scales!!

They rigged the electron and blasted off.

I'm overawed. That is very, very good!

I thought the electron was stolen. Check your sock drawer!

There is one person that posts here that is qualified to answer this heavy stuff....at least they think they are qualified....qualification depends on how many articles they can link and names they can drop.

>Has there ever been an electron, a neutron, or a photon that 'stood still'?

What do you mean by 'stood still'?

If you mean completely motionless, then according to quantum mechanics the answer is NO. If it were completely motionless then its momentum could be exactly determined (it would be 0), at the same time, its position could be determined exactly as well. This would violate the uncertainty principle. (see also zero point energy).

Relativistically speaking, if you were in a frame of reference travelling at exactly the same speed as the particle and in exactly the same direction, then the particle would **appear** to be standing still, although it would not actually be completely motionless.

I appreciate you 'trying' to be all scientific and such, but without a YouTube citation and a couple of pithy quotations, I'm afraid you're not meeting RfM's minimum standards.

One immediate problem a space-faring Race dedicated to "making something big stand still" would encounter is making themselves stay in one place long enough to work on their project.

Making your sun/planet combo "stand still" would likely make distant observers go nuts trying to figure out why 'you' disappeared from sight so quickly...

I can't believe R.A. Heinlein's oeuvre doesn't include a juvenile novel, "The Man Who Stood Still."


...but at least we'll always have The Cat!

Maybe they can air-drop church pamphlets to the Quakers.

welfare for the scientific community; I wish the benefits to taxpayers who pay for this were proportional to the costs.

The US space programs have added immensely to US technology and hence GDP. Among the many are satellites and wireless communications systems, bluetooth communications systems, materials and thermonuclear coolers for semiconductor production, programmable appliances, high temperature lubricants for industrial purposes, all sorts of medical technologies and devices, new textiles and clothing for extreme temperatures and extreme industrial conditions, and things like carbon nanotubes whose potential is enormous. The space programs were one of the things that catapulted the US economy to the technological and industrial frontier.

The payoff from this sort of public-private investment--for such it always is--is many times greater than the cost.

are you suggesting that the items you mentioned wouldn't have happened without the NASAs projects & costs?

I don't believe that.

I write that the SETI program was (also) a huge boondoggle



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Next you'll point to people on welfare and declare that the educational system is a waste of time, money, and talent that could be better invested in keeping front lawns safe from ruminants and small children.

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> are you suggesting that the items you mentioned
> wouldn't have happened without the NASAs projects
> & costs?
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> I don't believe that.

Many of those things would probably have happened anyway, but some would almost certainly have not. Moreover many of those things, if they had happened, would have occurred in other countries, enabling those countries rather than the US to achieve the concomitant scientific and technological pre-eminence.

You know what else wouldn't have been born in the United States? Search engines allowing you to check your factual assertions before removing all doubt, if you know what I mean.

Think I'm wrong? Just 谷歌 it.

If exploration (and eventually settlement,) is not worth it, then maybe Columbus, the Pilgrims, etc. should have turned around and gone home. Exploration and settlement are what our species does. Mars will be our second home one day. Eventually it will be given a breathable atmosphere. The moon will be home to some as well.

NASA's budget is a drop in the bucket when you look at the big picture. This is a long-term play.

"Mars will be our second home one day. Eventually it will be given a breathable atmosphere."

Mormons will need Space Conestogas to take them there. Hopefully they will all go.

One of the pleasures of watching the TV series "The Expanse" was seeing the Mormons attempt to go to outer space. Their customized space ship included a temple. 10/10 recommend.

The thing that I liked best about the show is that in many ways, it portrayed a plausible space-faring future. Not everything was bright and shiny, but neither was it a dark vision. It hit a happy medium.

Space, the final frontier. Where we can have as many wives as we darn well please.

I like protons on my salad.

Lots of taxpayer programs & a few departments are promoted by special interest groups via their lackey lobbyists & legislators.

Is there a government department or program without significant waste? Maybe.

But it's impossible. One of the prophets said so, and prophets do not make mistakes.

Moon Temple announcement coming shortly

were utilized on missions and gained significant public exposure.

https://www.nasa.gov/offices/ipp/home/myth_tang.html#:~:text=Velcro%20was%20used%20during%20the,associated%20with%20the%20Space%20Program.

Also,

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/475f96503e1dcfae8e61ebd4ceca23e1e0635b6008505394e2c44f9cc8578d77.jpg

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/20cde56bc125e7b32df14443149b601bc0eb5e02371b21878714ba5c6c29be5f.jpg