Moon Base Canada

[Liberalman]

Moon Base Canada

http://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/68973/No-rides-for-Canadian-astronauts

Now that our Canadian astronauts lost their ride to the International Space Station because our credits ran out and since Prime Minister Harper is in a spending mood like building up our military machines, the time is right for Canada to build a base on the moon.

Think of the opportunities of having a launch platform from the moon for deep space exploration and because of less gravity on the moon less rocket fuel would be needed to take off.

Environmentally the Earth would be better off because of less vehicle punching through the atmosphere.

New space vehicles could be manufactured on the moon as well as the fuel source.

Industry would have better research facilities on the moon and with the low gravity develop better and more efficient products.

It would take one country to start it and other countries would jump on board like they did with the International Space Station.

It is time for our Canadian astronauts to do more than just floating in a piece of metal around the Earth.

It is time to move forward and in the seven years while Canada waits for more credits so it can hitch a ride to the space station they could be bringing the space program to the next level of deep space travel.

 

[petros]

WTF? Where do you get this stuff?

 

[Liberalman]

wtf? Where do you get this stuff?

wtf???

 

[BruSan]

Mmmm; and we are to perform this monumental feat of accomplishment how exactly?

We don't have the expertise.
We don't have the necessary infrastructure.
We don't have the money!

While we are busily rounding up all of the aforementioned, we are to ignore ALL of the other things, currently of much higher priority, that are sucking up the aforementioned by big heaping gulps?

A very major feat for us would be to bring a type of aircraft to fruition that would suit our projected defence needs. Larger minds have deep sixed that as an achievable goal so I hardly think those in the know are gonna believe we can either afford or should commit to inhabiting a rock in space.

 

[Liberalman]

Mmmm; and we are to perform this monumental feat of accomplishment how exactly?

We don't have the expertise.
We don't have the necessary infrastructure.
We don't have the money!

While we are busily rounding up all of the aforementioned, we are to ignore ALL of the other things, currently of much higher priority, that are sucking up the aforementioned by big heaping gulps?

A very major feat for us would be to bring a type of aircraft to fruition that would suit our projected defence needs. Larger minds have deep sixed that as an achievable goal so I hardly think those in the know are gonna believe we can either afford or should commit to inhabiting a rock in space.

We do have the expertise
Infrastructure will come when we start the project.
The money will come from businesses the other countries that Canada will invite to participate.

 

[Goober]

We do have the expertise
Infrastructure will come when we start the project.
The money will come from businesses the other countries that Canada will invite to participate.

I take it that the air is a problem where you reside???:smile:

 

[Kreskin]

A space program need a business model. Unless it can break even or make a profit it isn`t worth having.

 

[taxslave]

We do have the expertise
Infrastructure will come when we start the project.
The money will come from businesses the other countries that Canada will invite to participate.

Since the US already has the infrastructure and a much larger tax base to steal from how about we just contribute a little money and some expertise like we have been? Or is this just supposed to be another liberal make work project for bureaucrats in Ottawa?

 

[Liberalman]

Since the US already has the infrastructure and a much larger tax base to steal from how about we just contribute a little money and some expertise like we have been? Or is this just supposed to be another liberal make work project for bureaucrats in Ottawa?

American President Obama said that his country would not continue with any more developments on the moon.

America has decided to concentrate on the Mars project just because it takes 5 years to get there

Once the project is started investors and other countries will come on board.

Canada has a working space agency we start from there and expand out.

Canada could have a working base on the moon before 2020.

The moon is close and travel time would be lower

 

[ironsides]

American President Obama said that his country would not continue with any more developments on the moon.

America has decided to concentrate on the Mars project just because it takes 5 years to get there

Once the project is started investors and other countries will come on board.

Canada has a working space agency we start from there and expand out.

Canada could have a working base on the moon before 2020.

The moon is close and travel time would be lower

First of all President is not President for life. President Obama is the only one keeping us at each others throats. The majority of Americans would like us to get into a race to build a Moon base, one important thing it might do is unite us again into one country and help get rid of all the different races and religions vying for dominant roles.


You actually have a good idea, you have access to the expertise, building or modifying infrastructure will create jobs not to mention the advancements in other technologies that will grow from it., lastly, you as a country have the money. The Kennedy Space Center is still fully functional.

 

[BruSan]

Tongue-in-cheek here: My suggestion is we leave the poor moon alone until all countries have gained the maturity to not want to militarize the thing as soon as we arrive. We got enough problems down here to solve before expending any resources on that one.

Mind you; Muslim radicals would have a tough time planting an IED up there.

 

[eh1eh]

We should go to the moon and learn how to live in a totally enclosed environment so we can build them on earth because with wasteful brain dead plans like 'going to the moon' instead of looking after our environment here on earth, we will need that technology.

 

[Kreskin]

If we go to the moon we could mine and sell the cheese.

 

[SLM]

We should go to the moon and learn how to live in a totally enclosed environment so we can build them on earth because with wasteful brain dead plans like 'going to the moon' instead of looking after our environment here on earth, we will need that technology.

Yeah but it's a Moon Base. C'mon, that'll be pretty cool eh?

If we go to the moon we could mine and sell the cheese.

Think of the shipping charges though. Yikes!

 

[taxslave]

American President Obama said that his country would not continue with any more developments on the moon.

America has decided to concentrate on the Mars project just because it takes 5 years to get there

Once the project is started investors and other countries will come on board.

Canada has a working space agency we start from there and expand out.

Canada could have a working base on the moon before 2020.

The moon is close and travel time would be lower

Yea I get that but to what end? The US has a fully functional launch capability that we don't have. Why not use that instead of squandering a ton of taxpayers money reinventing the wheel?
Now if a private enterprise was interested in doing a moon base from Canada I would expect the government to bend over backwards to assist in getting the project off the ground right up to the point where it involves my money.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

Mmmm; and we are to perform this monumental feat of accomplishment how exactly?

We don't have the expertise.
We don't have the necessary infrastructure.
We don't have the money!

While we are busily rounding up all of the aforementioned, we are to ignore ALL of the other things, currently of much higher priority, that are sucking up the aforementioned by big heaping gulps?

A very major feat for us would be to bring a type of aircraft to fruition that would suit our projected defence needs. Larger minds have deep sixed that as an achievable goal so I hardly think those in the know are gonna believe we can either afford or should commit to inhabiting a rock in space.

Sending rockets into space is 50 year old tech. It simply lacks public support. There is water and Helium-3 on the Moon to fuel exploration of the solar system. It ought to be seen as the world's greated construction project, to create endless prosperity for mankind.

Do you know why cordless tools were invented? Because astronauts needed them on spacewalks to do repairs. Living on the Moon will spur huge technological innovation, but you can't innovate unless you do new things.

 

[damngrumpy]

Lets see, the Americans are working on Mars so we should go to the moon?
Is that the new thinking? Well I suppose we could but we would need those
four subs that we bought from Britain to defend the base. Good God all the
things we need money for, and you want to go to the Moon and build a base
there.
this government has overspent the treasury in the billions, and we can't keep
the programs we have now still some want to go to the moon. For those who
said no on price alone are not quite right though, the science of new inventions
often pays in the long run for the programs, that were needed to make the
journey possible. The expertise is there many a Canadian has designed or been
part of the American experience from day one.
Still all this being said, at this time in history it would be one huge waste of money

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

Space exploration is a waste of money? The future is in space. Do we have enough resources on Earth to supply the world with a modern lifestyle? No. So we need to get to the Moon, asteroids and Mars. Mars may be terraformed so we can live there.

Not too ago most people in the world were just trying to survive, now we can become a spacefaring ciivilsation and that is ho-hum? What kind of revolution would you like? Picky picky picky.

The feds waste money. We spend $10 billion a year on Indians, and for what? Repeal the Indian Act, made Indians Canadians and turn reserves into cities. Put three billion a year into a Moon base, and use seven billion to pay off the debt. We could be a world leader politically and economically here. The future is more important now, and many countries need the resources from space and wil get them, whether we diddle or not.

 

[Kreskin]

Why would Earthlings want to move to the Moon or Mars? The resources are here, not there.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

Why would Earthlings want to move to the Moon or Mars? The resources are here, not there.

Not so. Read the link below. Water and helium-3, the latter which could allow fusion energy. H-3 is rare on Earth, but abundant on the Moon. Then there's the huge resources of asteroids. Space is calling.
This Moon was Made for Mining (Helium-3) : Discovery News

We could also become Moonlings. Sounds fun.