Just been Watching it on NASA TV on line
On a very slow broadband connection.
I'm a right in saying it was a"non" event and pictures showed jack........
If so what a waste of 79 Billion Dollars.
I watched it too on BBC News channel and I'm totally underwhelmed!
The funniest thing was one of the chaps in mission control. They had just finished crashing the following camera carrying satelite into the moon and
he runs round the desk, unplugs his laptop power supply, rolls it up quickly, chucks it in his rucksack, has the obligatory look around for anything
else he really must remember and then is 'on his toes' sharpish out the door! 
It had SWMBO and I in hysterics!
Apparently there was a lot of clapping from the NASA people, so I guess it was good news. Diffucult to tell at this early stage.
Just as long as the marshans dont try a similar trick with earth....
Regardless of how successful it was, its 79 Billion Dollars spent giving people jobs and wages, people seem to forget that fact very easily.
I’d rather that any day than 79 Billion Dollars spent in the armed forces to bombing and killing people.
what happened? didn't it work out then?
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
Regardless of how successful it was, its 79 Billion Dollars spent giving people jobs and wages, people seem to forget that fact very easily.
I’d rather that any day than 79 Billion Dollars spent in the armed forces to bombing and killing people.
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
Regardless of how successful it was, its 79 Billion Dollars spent giving people jobs and wages, people seem to forget that fact very easily.
I’d rather that any day than 79 Billion Dollars spent in the armed forces to bombing and killing people.
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Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
Regardless of how successful it was, its 79 Billion Dollars spent giving people jobs and wages, people seem to forget that fact very easily.
I’d rather that any day than 79 Billion Dollars spent in the armed forces to bombing and killing people.
Well said
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Originally posted by blakep82
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Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
Regardless of how successful it was, its 79 Billion Dollars spent giving people jobs and wages, people seem to forget that fact very easily.
I’d rather that any day than 79 Billion Dollars spent in the armed forces to bombing and killing people.
Well said
also its the money spent on science (like space travel and other things) that improves technology on earth too.
It was all Flavio's idea honest !
mmm lovely carbon fibre
The answers obvious, HG. Wells was right, the moons hollow!
tube linky
whats with the giant rats?
i love how they can breathe moon-air
So America have successfully bombed the moon.
Its a good job we don't have a Space Program or you could guarantee they'd have killed half a dozen of our Astronauts
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Originally posted by balidey
So America have successfully bombed the moon.
Its a good job we don't have a Space Program or you could guarantee they'd have killed half a dozen of our Astronauts
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Originally posted by britishtrident
It was all Flavio's idea honest !
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Originally posted by HOL
Where would we be without velcro or carbon fibre, for example!!
[Edited on 9-10-09 by mangogrooveworkshop]
We do need this type of exploration.
One Day we will need to leave this planet, before our sun becomes a Red giant
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Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
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Originally posted by HOL
Where would we be without velcro or carbon fibre, for example!!
About 3 seconds slower around the track probably
79 billion ehh......thats about the same amount of money the uk needs to get out this god awful recession!
..actually far short... the BOE have already owned up to 175 Billion of QE! Now add that to all the bank bailouts, toxic debt purchase, greed, etc.
and heaven knows what the real number is.
Probably staggering, and something the UK will be paying off for very many decades... assuming UK PLC produces anything that anyone out there
wants....
Turning on, tuning in, and soon to be dropping out (HBOS now want to repossess my house following redundancy, so not too many options left).
Give me a job in the Post Office, quick!
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Originally posted by carpmart
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Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
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Originally posted by HOL
Where would we be without velcro or carbon fibre, for example!!
About 3 seconds slower around the track probably
How does velcro give you that much more pace??
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Originally posted by rf900rush
We do need this type of exploration.
One Day we will need to leave this planet, before our sun becomes a Red giant
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Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
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Originally posted by rf900rush
We do need this type of exploration.
One Day we will need to leave this planet, before our sun becomes a Red giant
Are they related to the Jolly Green Giant by any chance?
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Originally posted by Mr Whippy
The answers obvious, HG. Wells was right, the moons hollow!
According to a book I read a year or so back called "Who Built the Moon", there was a section that referred to
the last time NASA crashed into the moon (deliberately). quote:
Originally posted by jollygreengiant
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Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
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Originally posted by rf900rush
We do need this type of exploration.
One Day we will need to leave this planet, before our sun becomes a Red giant
Are they related to the Jolly Green Giant by any chance?
OI! leave me out of this.
We could have saved 50 billion by sending arsewipe gordon brown up there with a shovel,and bucket to find water
plus sides
its cheaper
we get a difintive answer
we get the twat several thousand miles away
we use the money saved to pay of 2/3 the UK debt, thus saving our children years and years of missery
(only a suggestion )
Steve
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Originally posted by steve m
We could have saved 50 billion by sending arsewipe gordon brown up there with a shovel,and bucket to find water
plus sides
its cheaper
we get a difintive answer
we get the twat several thousand miles away
we use the money saved to pay of 2/3 the UK debt, thus saving our children years and years of missery
(only a suggestion )
Steve
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Originally posted by 02GF74
a can of fanta.