Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I appreciate the arguments that robotic exploration of space is far cheaper, however I think that the exploration of Mars is going to be so complex that human presence will be required. A moon base is arguably a good step on the way to sending people to Mars.
I think finding life on another planet will be one of the most amazing scientific accomplishments ever (even if it's just microbial life on Mars) so I hope I get to see it.
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Squee!!!
Tacklehugs Dana.
Another discovery -- while my computer speakers made it up to the 29th floor, their power supply did not. Boo.
What did other people learn or discover?
As long as all the meetings of all the committees and groups and teams exist to recommend things rather than actually making them happen, we never have to do any work. On the down side, it means the meetings go on forever.
I did not know that Dean Stockwell was in Blue Velvet. I mean, it's been probably 10 years since I saw it, but I don't remember him in it at all.
I got a bit soured on the idea of space exploration and bases on the moon when I hit college and remembered where the word "colonize" usually ends us up. Not that there are people on the moon, but the lurky ugliness of the concept remains.
I'm skeptical about a moon base being useful in getting to Mars. I think money would be better spent developing technology to get robotic probes to Mars and other locations faster than we currently do, and getting samples back. Seems like we'd want to be able to do that before sending people anyway. A moon base would be a smaller gravity well, but I suspect that the benefit of building things there would be offset by the difficulties of building things there.
I did not know that Dean Stockwell was in Blue Velvet. I mean, it's been probably 10 years since I saw it, but I don't remember him in it at all.
He lipsyncs Roy Orbison while singing into a lightbulb while being thoroughly decadent, drugged up and fey.
The base on Antarctica is doing okay, isn't it?
Got it, Dana. Thank you so much! I'm going to go get some groceries and listen to it in the car, and undoubtably weep my ass off. Score!