Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Apollo, the Lunar Dust and NASA's Dirty Problem" video.

  1. The Moon does have some gravity.
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  2. David Keenan so you mean after all that hard work and training I can't even expect to take long hot showers on missions? They must be looking for folks with the ripe stuff.
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  3. Millions? Try billions of years.
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  4. ***** Bringing enough water to drink != to bringing enough water to spray everyone down. There was a limit to how much weight they could bring, you know?
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  5. If they try to stay longer the problem would grow linearly with the amount of time spent on the Moon. Some wear is acceptable, but after a point you have a real serious malfunction on your hands.
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  6. I wonder where you'd get the water to make steam out of on the Moon.
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  7. ***** but if they bring it as liquid hydrogen and oxygen they can get energy from the elements before using it as water. Making steam takes a lot of energy too. What are the astronauts supposed to do, chop a tree down on the Moon, and then burn it to make steam? This is the Moon we're talking about here, you understand that, don't you? So if you don't bring it, then odds are you don't have it either. Every droplet of water, and erg of energy has to be hauled there.
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  8. ***** you can just go to Solar Depot right next to Spatula City on the Moon and buy all the solar panels you could want, right?
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  9. ***** sure to the cost of about $20,000 a pound of payload. There ain't no Prime shipping package to the Moon!
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  10. ***** yes surprise, surprise our pockets are not infinite. 5% of the entire budget of the richest country in the world is quite a chunk of change. That is what Apollo cost at its peak too. We achieved our stated goal. To put a man on the Moon, and return him safely to Earth. It remains the greatest achievement of human engineering. Yet somehow it is not quite enough for you. For you seem to think that we fell a bit short of the mark. Well excuse me! Start a go fund me campaign to do it right then. But don't expect the US taxpayer to foot the bill with your hair brained scheme.
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  11. ***** We have vital national interests in the desert. Those 600 billion that we spend on defense keep us in power here too. Which is vital for maintaining our freedom. Apollo was important at the time for propaganda purposes. That's all it ever was. It was a demonstration to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt who was technically superior. The demonstration is over and done with now too. We've no legitimate interest in space beyond what it can do for our image on this planet. Because most people are too stupid to have things explained to them any other way.
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  12. ***** I am not in the way. I am simply not going to pay to make your dreams come true.
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  13. ***** what self funded private space organizations are you talking about? Not SpaceX? Who the hell do you think pays their bills? Keeping that boondoggle in orbit the ISS supplied is what keeps the lights on there. Who are you fooling, other than yourself?
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  14. Robert Lefebure you know why the US is in debt? Apparently because enough people believe that we're good for the money. So far they've been right too.
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  15. Robert Lefebure because that is not how it works.
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  16. Robert Lefebure indeed. You can bet your life on it. We do.
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  17. I got to ride on the training rover.
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  18. surfjerr it makes you more familiar with stage coaches than someone with less experience than you has. Thank you for proving once again that false dilemma arguments are baseless.
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  19. surfjerr my site? What's that? I was in the IAM once. So my machining career was of a more professional nature then. I made instruments called Fluid Motion Wheel Dressers, among other things. I still do some pretty trick machining work at home now too. I just got done building my own CNC engraving machine from scratch. I make other shop equipment too. It is a creative outlet for me.
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  20. surfjerr we had an instamatic camera. The event I attended was not televised either. It was not a launch, or anything like that. It was just a parade at the Cape. Yes I have pictures, but they are in the family album and digging that up is a pain in the ass. I haven't looked through the family album myself in quite a few years.
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  21. Bob Barker the Moon sucks. No one is going to want to spend an extended period of time there. To what end would they do such a thing? I'm actually against all manned space missions. Humanity has no place in space. That's what we have robots for. We lose a robot and sure folks are sad, but we don't have to have a funeral. We've got one robot going on Mars for over 12 years now. You ain't never going to see humans survive in space that long in your lifetime.
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  22. Daren Wilson sounds like a plan to me.
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  23. Lunar dust is an issue that I was aware of. This is just one of many challenges often overlooked by the less informed. What the Moon really needs is a good long soaking to deal with the dust issue. Barring that I don't know how we can effectively manage it. One thing not discussed in this video is the Lunar "atmosphere" made up of charged dust particles. Astronauts have talked about seeing a haze while they were on the Moon.
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