By-Pass the Moon? Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: By-Pass the Moon?
# 10475 bysailorbarsoom@... on Feb. 20, 2008, 6:41 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
--- In spacesettlers, Joe Strout wrote:
>> Think of Lunar rock climbing as a sport... Savage reported that in
>> a chamber on Luna which was pressurized to Earth Sea-level, you
>> could literally fly with a pair of wings strapped on. That alone
>> screams for the Moon to be opened up.
> Yes, absolutely. It will be the ultimate extreme sport, and a major
> industry.
>
> Of course you could also do that in a sufficiently large orbital
> colony, but it may actually be cheaper on the Moon.
Obviously, I'm not going to be able to resist the urge to post a link
to my SpaceSports group.
Enjoy.
--- In spacesettlers, Joe Strout wrote:
>> They say an elephant is a mouse built to gevernment specs. A
>> diplodocus is the NASA version; It has 5 heads, and it can't take
>> any action unless at least 3 of them agree, so usually it starves.
You could also have spoken of horses and camels. Even zebras can get
into the mix. But while we're building this zoo, can we all please
agree on the animal we really need: CATS? We don't get much of a
Lunar mission, and we probably don't get any Mars or asteroid mission,
and we don't get SPS and we don't get O'Neilian habitats and we sure
as shootin' don't get any tourism until that animal is bagged.