Comments by "roachtoasties" (@roachtoasties) on "Curious Droid" channel.

  1. Just fly to the moon at night. Problem solved. ;)
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  2. One thing I've thought about is if the two astronauts were stuck on the moon because of a mechanical or technical failure. They would have known they only had a few days to live. Air, fuel/power, water and food would all soon run out, and it wouldn't matter what would run out first. Being stuck in such a predicament would be horrible. Then there is Mike Collins, who would have to travel back to earth alone. Depending on the timing, he might have left moon orbit when they were alive and arrived back to earth when they were dead.
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  3. If NASA was stuck using Microsoft SharePoint at the time, we wouldn't have made it off the launchpad.
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  4. The odds of debris hitting that target was about 1 in 7.5 billion. 7.5 billion is also about how many people are living on earth. Taco Bell had nothing to worry about. Even if it did hit, they could afford to give away free tacos. They didn't need insurance. Tacos are cheap to make, plus few would bother going to Taco Bell for their free taco.
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  5. Me too. After a period of time (millions of years) whatever atoms, photons, molecules, etc., that have hit it may have worn down its surfaces. The golden record may also have been worn down to a point that it's no longer playable. That shouldn't be an issue, since the folks at NASA didn't provide a golden record player on board. The space aliens will look at the record, then look for the record player. When they don't find one, they'll then forget about even trying to play it since they don't have a Best Buy nearby to buy a record player.
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  6. There's no need to see that stuff. We already have pictures of all of that before it all went to the moon. We know what it looks like because we made it. :/
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  7. As far as assembling the IIS, it was probably a safer proposition to assemble it from 40 shuttle missions, than to put it fully assembled all inside one Sea Dragon, if it existed. If the Sea Dragon blew-up during launch, there goes the whole space station. We lost two shuttles, but if one happened to be an IIS assembly mission, only 1/40 of the IIS would have been lost and needed replacement.
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  8. The problem with those golden records on the Voyage spacecrafts is NASA didn't provide a golden record player for the space aliens who find it. They'll look at the records, and realize they don't have a space alien Best Buy nearby to buy a record player, and then toss them out in the trash. NASA blew it. Oh, well. What is more probable is in thousands, or millions, of earth years are these spacecraft getting sucked in by a distant star's gravity. They'll be fried by a star before a space alien finds them.
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  9. It will never be found unless there's a way to drain an ocean and search the bottom that way.
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