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(8,020 posts)Glassunion
(10,201 posts)to send each member of congress to the moon for their scruff of the neck berating.
Or about 27.7 Trillion if we just sent the Republicans.
We can pick up a few of these for about $30
Prospero1
(83 posts)to send them to the moon and just leave them there?
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)How much does one of these cost?
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)and let them burn up upon reentry.
And probably more effective.
cheapdate
(3,811 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)loudsue
(14,087 posts)and not come home.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)The best place in this solar system, and we act as if we are in a hurry to be kill everything.
Maybe we are already dead.
Neoma
(10,039 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)I'd be pondering the reliability of the equipment and people involved in the orbital mechanics and reentry stages mostly.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,457 posts)Are you implying the institute and Mitchell's quest isn't quite grounded in reality?
http://noetic.org/directory/person/edgar-mitchell/
MisterP
(23,730 posts)cer7711
(502 posts)Love this thread! Thank you for starting it.
mbperrin
(7,672 posts)This to me is the most logical explanation of why the United States has committed technological suicide by killing our space program - the powers that be are afraid that this kind of thinking might catch on.
niyad
(113,525 posts)of consciousness after their travels (unfortunately, cannot remember the name)
LongTomH
(8,636 posts).......The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution. The first publication attracted a great deal of interest among pro-space groups in the 1980s.
niyad
(113,525 posts)obxhead
(8,434 posts)Look at the big picture. It matters.
GETPLANING
(846 posts)Most become environmentalists, some become very religious, but none return more conservative than they were when they lifted off.
derby378
(30,252 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/646089.Only_a_Little_Planet
I have the above book. If you can find it, a nice Xmas gift.....
nikto
(3,284 posts)I sure would like to OWN that sucker, and control everything that happens on it,
and get all the money from all the transactions that happen there.
And screw anyone or anything that wants any of what is all mine.
I'm sure everybody feels the same way.
brush
(53,829 posts)would they think Earth was their moon?
It looks so small in that shot compared to the moon.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)just like we did.
brush
(53,829 posts)We didn't figure out for centuries that the sun didn't revolve around the earth also.
dougolat
(716 posts)..who are turning the place into a toxic waste dump!
polynomial
(750 posts)I am an autodidact type person in many senses to push the envelope of life. The very same reason this astronaut shows his deep interest to help progress, sort of like taking a mischievous child that is annoying in the objectives of life, but even though grown to a mature man or woman living now as an elected politician removed from under the laws to being a maker of the laws needs to be shown with force by neck to see the big picture in what is good in life.
Please out there in the ether, that space which may not be the last frontier but another transformation so new mysterious or just by reason takes a place in the system we all view in awe. From a view so miraculous omnipotent that God could not exist, or is this really the door way to Eden. Many think that is so
B Calm
(28,762 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)to see first hand how others view us in the U.S.
I know one who did just that. He came back with a whole new appreciation. Too bad it took him 58 years to figure out that much.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)Others wake up and realize the only legacy worth working for is one that slows down the damage and starts the long road of remediation.
edbermac
(15,943 posts)Taken by the Apollo 17 crew a few hours after leaving earth orbit.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)It put me in this kind of state of mind for a couple of days...
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)We could do so much more with it, instead of clawing each other's eyes out over resources and imaginary deities.
We could make it work better.
We could do amazing things.
Maybe we still can.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)They wouldn't get it. The most you might get is "Wow, that revolves around me!"